Even when you don’t have a green hand, you can make a beautiful garden with a few very simple tips. Thus, it is enough to bury these everyday objects near your plants instead of throwing them to help your plants to push.
Spring, a renewal season, is fast approaching. This is the favorite moment of gardening enthusiasts! After months of winter cold, the challenge is to revive your plants and ensure successful flowering. But even with current care, ensuring good sunshine, regular watering and treatment against pests, some plants do not seem to flourish fully. If some budding gardeners bet on fertilizers, soil and other insecticides, grandmother’s tips sometimes get the best results.
We know the use of coffee grounds or tea sachets as natural fertilizers, but also the use of crushed eggs and white vinegar as a repulsive. These are known combins, which are transmitted by word of mouth from generation to generation. In addition, they have the merit of being simple to set up, inexpensive and respectful of the environment. But there is another tip, less known, which can really make all the difference: cork caps.
After outbiting a good bottle, we generally tend to throw these little cylinders in the trash. However, cork, a natural material from the bark of the cork oak, has amazing properties that can be used.
Indeed, instead of throwing them away, try to plant them in your garden, at the level of your plants. Liège is an excellent thermal and water insulation. By burying it near the roots, it helps keep the humidity of the soil, thus reducing the frequency of watering. Acting as a sponge, it also retains excess humidity while preventing the retention of stagnant water in the pots. In addition, its slow decomposition gradually enriches the earth into nutrients, promoting healthy growth in plants.
Beyond this use, cork also helps stabilize the soil temperature, thanks to its insulating and water-resistant properties. So just cut large pieces of the traffic jams and arrange them around the plants. This keeps a good humidity level, while protecting frost plants in winter and heat in summer. In addition, it plays a role of natural repulsive against snails and slugs which, facing a barrier of cork traffic jams, will quickly turn around.
In short, the possibilities are multiple and are perfectly part of a sustainable recycling process. Also, the next time you come out a bottle, remember to keep the cap. Your garden will thank you!