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http://sjeftuintips.wordpress.com/ is the site with the same gardening tips, in Dutch.
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I wrote some articles in Wikihow about gardening.
Wiki-bean Wiki-greenhouse Wiki-strawberry Wiki-pots Wiki-sowing box
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On sjefgardentips.wordpress.com you’ll find a lot of tips for gardening, especial on sandy soil. Each tip starts with photos followed by a description of the actions. All photos have been made by myself.
Please be free to use the tips, descriptions and photos or make a link. The more people who know these tips, the better. Please mention on the site that info is coming from “sjefgardentips”. URL is https://sjefgardentips.wordpress.com/
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On this page there is a list of gardening tips, each with a link to the corresponding tip. With Backspace you will return to this page.
If you like to see all tips (one after another), go to the HOME page.
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Gardening tips:
42) Gardening tools in a “deepened” compost bin
41) Replanting vegetables using 2 plastic tubes
39) Flower pots with bean stakes (in a small garden)
38) Sowing groups of seeds at fixed distances
37) Sowing small seeds individually with fixed distances
36) Growing leek plants in rolled up plastic tubes
35) More tips about germinating beans
34) Sowing leek or summer carrots using a sink mat and a “shift fall tray”
33) A sink mat and a “shift fall tray” as seed sowing aids
32) Sowing beans in pots and planting in the garden later
31) A “cabbage cage” to guard cabbage plants against butterflies
30) Root ball lifting flower pot
29) Growing plants from tiny seeds
28) Growing “winter cauliflower”
26) Strawberry offshoots (runners): use flower pots and bulb planter
25) Plastic foil at the roof over peppers or tomatoes
24) Growing chicory (endive, witloof)
23) Protecting strawberries from birds (iron wire netting or birds net)
22) Sowing onions in a small furrow
21) Tillage tips (manure, spading, hoeing, weeding etc)
20) Early summer carrots (sowing indoors, growing outdoors)
19) Sowing cabbage plants on moist toilet paper
16) Tips about kohlrabi, cauliflower and broccoli
15) Storage tips for your harvest
14) Each week two heads of lettuce
13) Solid greenhouse made of transparent currigated plate (for early lettuce, leek, endive etc)
12) Sowing beans on absorbing paper
11) Robust tunnel for early green beans (PVC tubes and plastic foil)
10) Beans in Sjef’s garden (tips about bean stakes, watering etc.)
7) Roof over sweet peppers or tomatoes
6) Sowing carrots in a small furrow
5) Planting onion sets in a small furrow
4) Insects and diseases of plants
3) “Sowing box” or “small seed shift tray”
1) Simple compost container made of paving stones
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At tip 2) Simple “tools” and tips, these topics are described:
79. Planting big seed potatoes (for a big harvest)
78. Sowing in a (7 compartment) plastic dinner box
77. Lifting hook for watering plants (e.g. lettuce, endive)
76. Simple draining aid (kitchen use)
75. Mouse proof storage box
74. Water-saving watering can
73. Moist toilet paper in a margarine box to sow on
72. Flower pots with insect mesh netting
71. Snail fences
70. Placemat with sowing holes
69. Frame of wooden laths around a seedbed
68. Shove tray made of margarine boxes
67. Small white plastic cap with seeds
66. Sieving dry cow manure
65. Sieve and flower pot dish to “make liquid cow manure”
64. Nylon string with knots at fixed distances
63. Flower pot dish with a closable water drain
62. Weighing (vegetables) using a luggage scale
61. Pulverizing cow manure pellets using bricks or paving stone parts
60. Little volume spoon for small (vegetable) seeds
59. Connecting 2 pieces of electricity conduit (for a garden foil tunnel)
58. Water tubes as a sowing tool
57. Plastic flower pot for drying (latex) gloves
56. Watering plants using a plastic window box liner and hoses
55. Support for sweet pepper plants in a circular mortar bucket
54. Keeping straw beans free from the garden soil (tip of Wim)
53. Frame with insect gauze (tip of Wim)
52. Greenhouse made of corrugated plate, standing on 4 wooden pins (tip of Wim)
51. “Baskets” to protect plants, made of wire netting and thick iron wire (tip of Wim)
50. Thick string with marks at fixed distances (tip of Wim)
49. Fastening bean stakes using a wire tensioner (tip of Wim)
48. Bottles on sticks, ice cream sticks as nameplates, empty beakers to sow in (some tips of Liane)
47. Sieving (potting) soil throug a plastic flower pot
46. Strewing a thin layer of sand using a small flower pot
45. Pieces of curling cord to train stems of stake beans
44. Band of fabric to cover seeds right after sowing
43. Flower pot edge that can be opened
42. Planting potatoes using a bulb planter
41 Sprouting (chitting) potatoes in a cardboard egg box or in compost
40. Method to take a plant with a big root ball out of a flower pot
39. Aluminium foil behind indoor growing plants
38. Name plates made of aluminium Venetian blinds
37. Improved supports for small leak plants
36. Stakes with loops to train tandrils of stake beans
35. Little board for sowing at fixed distances
34. Making sowing furrows with a wooden rake
33. Useful storage of sachets of seed
32. Tool for hanging a hose over the edge of a water barrel
31. Planting with a bulb planter
30. Modified step ladder for picking stake beans
29. Board for flowerpots with small plants
28. Box for fruit and vegetable waste (kitchen and garden waste)
27. Sowing tips (general)
26. Grey rectangular plate to see germinating seeds
25. Small seeds (tray, crown cap, cocktail stick)
24. Crop rotation and garden plan in Excel
23. Bucket greenhouse
22. Simple “dark house” for chicory
21. Chicken-food (mixed cereals) used as a green manure
20. Feeding birds in a butterfly-bush
19. Tools in a compost vessel
18. Cut square flower pots from tray
17. Simple support for “heavy” pepper branches
16. Bean slicing tools
15. “Plank bridge” for storage of onions
14. “Newspaper skirt” for storage of potatoes
13. Tips for a water vessel
12. Making liquid nettle manure
11. Fixing strips for guiding stake beans
10. Fixing strips for sweet peppers or tomatoes
9. Cabbage collars and fixing iron wire
8. Planting stick for leak or stakes
7. “Greenhouse” made of a margarine box and a transparent plastic mushroom box
6. Lath with marks at fixed distances
5. String with marks at fixed distances
4. Elastic band for sowing or planting in a straight line
3. Stepping board for loose soil
2. Board to make furrows (“furrow boards”)
1. “Greenhouse” made of 2 plastic margarine boxes
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Hopefully these tips can help you.
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