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Gardening Hacks

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Gardening Hacks by Jon VanZile offers 300 easy and inexpensive tips to help your plants blossom, ideal for green thumbs, beginners, or hesitant gardeners. Whether starting your first garden or expanding, this book covers simple hacks like using eggshells as seed starters or pest repellents, cinnamon to prevent fungal diseases, newspapers to deter weeds, and DIY seed packet organisation. It's a practical guide for gardens of any size, from small herb collections to extensive fruit and vegetable patches.
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Perfect for gardeners of all skill levels, including first-time horticulturalists and experienced plant enthusiasts looking for practical, budget-friendly gardening solutions.

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Make your garden flourish with these 300 easy and inexpensive gardening hacks to help your plants blossom—perfect for any green fingers, first-time horticulturalists, or reluctant gardeners!

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Make your garden flourish with these 300 easy and inexpensive gardening hacks to help your plants blossom—perfect for any green thumbs, first-time horticulturalists, or reluctant gardeners!

Think you don’t have a green thumb? Think again! No matter your gardening woes, Gardening Hacks has the solution.

Perfect for all gardening skill levels whether you’re starting your first garden, looking to expand your crop, or simply searching for ways to make it easier to care for your extensive plant collection, you’ll find everything you need to know to make your garden grow. Gardening Hacks includes helpful tips like:

  • Saving your eggshells, which can serve as everything from an organic seed starter to a natural snail and slug repellent.
  • Adding a pinch of cinnamon to help prevent fungal diseases that might prevent your plants from maturing.
  • Using the newspaper to help deter weeds from sprouting.
  • Creating your own DIY seed packet catalog to help keep your seeds organised as your garden grows.
  • And many more!

No matter the size of your garden—from a small herb collection to an extensive variety of fruits and vegetables to any indoor plant that needs some perking up—Gardening Hacks will make your plants flourish!

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"Creative, low-cost ideas and advice sparking enthusiasm and building confidence." — Publishers Weekly
"The kind of book that is a lot of fun, and makes your garden a better and richer place." — Common Weeder
"Everything you need to know." — Gratitude Gourmet

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781507215814

Publisher: Adams Media Corporation

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 May 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Adams Media Corporation

Illustration: 2-color

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 191.0mm

Weight: 245g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Jon VanZile is a master gardener who lives in South Florida, where he enjoys collecting orchids and aroids and experimenting with ways to grow the perfect heirloom tomato. He is the author of several gardening books, including Houseplants for a Healthy Home and Gardening Hacks. He can be reached at JonVanZile.com.

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