TOP GARDENING TIPS

Paint the handles of your garden tools with the brightest paint you can find. You’ll save yourself the frustration of trying to find out where you last put them.

Make yourself a mini seed propagator by cutting the bottom off a 2 litre, clear plastic bottle. Put your seeds into an 8-10 cm pot, and then put the bottle over the top. This will create a humid atmosphere, ideal for seedlings.

LAVENDER DRYING
When it is time to cut lavender flower stems for drying, choose a dry morning and gather long stems to hang upside-down in a warm, dry place for about a month to dry. If you are cutting flowers for the table, cut these in the morning after the dew has dried or just before sunset, they will last much longer

SOAP
Submitted by JC. By e-mail
Before you start working in the garden, push your nails into a bar of soap. Enough soap remains under the nails to prevent soil getting in saving you the time of hard scrubbing to get them clean.

Horticulural.