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Lifehack your way to a green thumb; shortcuts, money savers and clever growing tricks to achieve a perfect garden.
DIY Leaf Shine
Leaf shine does wonders for plants. You could buy some at the store pre-mixed, but the ingredients and their purpose are confusing - or you could easily create your own leaf shine to better suit the individual needs of different plants. Included are also some DIY leaf shine recipes that act as a pest and disease preventative.
By Courtney Nugen5 years ago in Lifehack
5 Needed Garden Tools to Maintain a Beautiful Yard
There is so much inspiration to be found in the beauty of nature. Perhaps, American author Alice Sebold said it best: "I like gardening — it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself." You don't have to be a professional gardener to create gorgeous backyard scenery, but you do need the proper tools to clean up those flowerbeds and banish those pesky weeds. We have the perfect garden tools for summertime when "the livin' is easy."
By McKenzie Jones5 years ago in Lifehack
The Bees, the Bees.
The Bees, the Bees... My life had become utterly consumed by a job I loved, but by a company ethos I could not sympathise with. It was late Autumn in 2013 and I was sitting in my attic room, rented in a house in Stoneleigh, SW London, thinking about change:
By Christopher Lloyd5 years ago in Lifehack
GARDENING FOREVER
Need another reason to get growing? Having a plant does more than make you feel like you've got this whole #adulting thing down. One 2015 study in the Journal of Physiological Anthropology found that interacting with indoor plants can can reduce both physiological and psychological stress. Horton has reaped the rewards herself. "When you introduce plants into your life, it has a positive impact on your mental health—I can attest to that myself," she says. "Plants have kind of saved me, in a sense, because they give me the ability to calm my anxiety and refocus my energy into something more productive." Plus, adding some green helps purify the air in your home by filtering out everyday pollutants (more on that in a sec).
By Dandelionclub5 years ago in Lifehack
How To Keep Your Trees Healthy During The Winter
Aside from keeping you and your family warm during these cold winter months to come, your trees are also relying on you to protect them. Winter can be a harsh and stressful time for your trees too. To help them cope with the cold and wet season, you have to take a few steps to care for them. This is to ensure that they only incur minimal damages and will not result in tree removal Sydney procedures due to sudden death.
By North Shore Tree Services5 years ago in Lifehack
From The Dirt To The Walls, The Table, & Better Health.
When I was a child, I remember walking into my grandparent’s yard and from the moment you got out of the car and looked at their house compared to the others it just looked so beautiful, a jungle behind a small red brick wall with black fencing on it. When you look toward the house and all you can see is the beautiful lushness and big trees with fresh fruits hanging all over. The red concrete pathway led to a small fountain in the middle of the front garden(yard) which went right and left, but either way there was green grass, big bushes, beautiful flowers, and fresh fruits surrounding the property like you walked into a secret garden. As you passed the fountain the pathway narrowed back to one path and on each side of the path there were tall evergreens on each side as if they were fencing the pathway and above hung grapevines that one could just pick from and eat as you walked to the front door (that was my favorite part). Most people go to the grocery stores to get their fruits, but not me especially with my grandparent’s delicious fruits just hanging ready to be picked… all you had to do was walk outside and pick whatever it was you wanted to have. There were lemons, limes, grapefruit, grapes, chilies and many other fruits in the back. I assumed that was how the house came, but one day as my grandfather was showing me old photos when they came to America, I found an old picture of my grandparent’s property and the only thing besides the house was the little brick wall and first thing my grandfather put in was the fountain. There were no trees, bushes, or anything in the picture except the dead grass all around. That was when I realized my grandfather’s garden was made from scratch, his hard work and love. That is when I knew that I loved nature and what it can provide, especially with the proper time, love, and care.
By Alana King 5 years ago in Lifehack
Useful Gadgets for Gardening
Gardening should always be encouraged. Those who have a passion for gardening know how hard it is to take care of the plants to grow them. However, we are living in the 21st century and hardships should not be a barrier to do this job. Technology is here to offer smart solutions even for a job like gardening. Here, in this blog, we are going to discuss some smart gardening gadgets and tools that you should buy to maintain everything in your garden and take care of each plant individually with minimal effort.
By Vishesh Garg5 years ago in Lifehack
3 Tips and Tools that will take your Garden to the Next Level. Top Story - June 2021. Created with: Fiskars.
Learning to grow my own food has been the most empowering life skill I’ve ever developed. It may seem like a great deal of effort to grow a few tomatoes (because it is) but the results are 100% worth it. Not only will they be the best tasting tomatoes you’ve ever had, but it will provide you with a different perspective; one that empowers you with knowledge and a new appreciation for the environment, the plants and the farmers that grow our food.
By Farmer Nick5 years ago in Lifehack
The Not-So-Secret Garden
THE NOT-SO-SECRET GARDEN Several years ago, when my husband’s health began to deteriorate, we decided to say good-bye to what we thought would be our forever home. It was all on one floor, spacious, and had the kitchen of my dreams. We had it built exactly to our specifications, so we thought it would suffice into our golden years. We discovered, however, that maintaining two acres of land was more than what could be managed with only me to care for it. I had lovingly created eight flower gardens but was always fighting off deer and rabbits for the blooms and greenery.
By Debra Ison5 years ago in Lifehack
Nourishing the Yin With Sugar and Greens
I've found the kind of happiness in my garden that really sinks in. It gets in all the way to my bones. My happiness thrives when it gets planted in the cyclical soil of reality. Not so much when I chase the figment of happiness born of an endless climb up the mountain of more. I cleave now to happiness that has learned a calmer embrace of death and other inevitabilities.
By Kaia Maeve Tingley5 years ago in Lifehack
