Nothing beats a pleasant coffee drink or book reading in your own backyard garden. Gardening is so much fun. It helps you relax and connect with nature and gardening decorations that surround you.

Check out these creative garden tips & hacks we made up for you. From improving garden soil using gardening tools such as recycled kitchen waste or creating a mini greenhouse using soda bottles to propagating rose cuttings with potatoes or making beautiful log garden planter, these garden tips and tricks are easy and affordable. With less effort and nearly no cost, you can transform your garden into perfection with homemade gardening tools!

SO HERE ARE 9 Creative Garden Hacks & Tips That Every Gardener Should Know (Gardening Tips for Beginners)

9. Keep Plants Watered for Days when going on vacation

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If you’re going on a vacation for a few days and don’t have a way to keep your indoor plants watered,
keep them alive with one of the clever gardening hacks

 9: Make a Watering Can out of a Gallon Jug

Gardening tips for beginners: This super simple hack using an old milk jug is perfect for a new gardener that hasn’t gone out and bought a $20 watering can yet.

8 Prevent Invasive Plants from Spreading Using a Plastic Pot

To stop herbs that spread via roots or runners, you can install plastic edging underground. Simply cut off the bottom off a plastic pot and bury it in the ground! This can also give you better control over the size of the plant once it reaches maturity, and also protects the plants around it.

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6 Make a Garden Bed over an Existing Lawn with Cardboard

No funds for a raised garden bed? You can lay down cardboard over the existing lawn to make a garden bed. The cardboard blocks grass and weeds from growing by excluding light and provides an initial carbon layer for the bed. And it would save countless hours of taking sod out and produce healthy soil also! Make sure the cardboard layer have no gaps so that weeds cannot grow up between the cardboard pieces and into your garden.

5  Create a Mini Greenhouse with the Help of Plastic Storage Containers

Create portable mini greenhouses out of plastic storage containers for starting seeds and nurturing young plants

4 WHY YOUR GARDEN NEEDS WORMS

do you think earthworms are cool creatures that are fun to play with? Or are they icky, creepy, slimy crawlies that you’d rather avoid?

If you like to fish, you probably like them since they can help you reel in the big fish when used as bait. But what if you’re a gardener?

Anyone who spends time in a garden will tell you earthworms are a gardener’s best friends. In fact, earthworms may be the most important factor in the success of a garden. Some people even call earthworms “nature’s first gardeners”!

If you’ve ever been around a farm in spring, you know that farmers need to plow the soil. Plowing breaks up the soil, allowing air and water to get to seeds and the roots of plants. Earthworms act like tiny plows when they live in a garden.

As earthworms move through the soil of a garden, they make tunnels. Just like plowing, these tunnels allow air and water to get to the roots of plants.

1 the Best and Simple Way to Garden

Simply cut healthy rose stems, push the bottom ends of your rose cuttings in large potatoes, and then bury them 3-4 inches deep in a healthy soil mixture of peet moss and topsoil. The potatoes help the stems retain moisture as they develop roots.

Traditional compost piles need to be managed by turning, aerating and using the right ratio of ingredients.  They also take up a lot of space, something that is a premium for most gardeners.

Why I love to trench compost.  We are digging a trench or hole and dropping in our compost material.

There is no need to turn it at the right time or spread it out when it’s finished.  All I do is dig the trench, fill it and cover the trench or hole with dirt and forget all about it.

I don’t have to worry about ratios in a trench.  I just throw everything in.  If you have high tunnels, you can trench compost year round.

There are no fancy tools need for trench composting.  All I need is a shovel!

How to Trench Compost:  All of your composting goodies should be buried 8 to 12 inches beneath the ground.

You get to decide how wide your trench will be.

I like to dig a foot wide trench and everyday just throw in the kitchen scraps.  When that part of the trench is halfway full, back fill and level it off.  Just continue filling the trench and back filling all the way to the end.

Chopping the scraps up helps them decompose faster.

Mark the beginning and end of your trench so you don’t forget where it is and accidentally dig it up before decomposition is finished.

I can dig the trench, fill it up and back fill it with soil all in one evening.  Mixing food scrapes and plant waste with some of the soil from the trench.  If it has been dry I use the hose and spray water over the top of the scraps.  Fill the trench with soil and walk away.

Wait at least one month before planting over the trench.  You don’t want to dig up something really nasty by being impatience and digging to soon.

Please let me know how this trench composting works out for you.