4. Use fence panels creatively.
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Supplies required: Apply paint
Making It Cost: $50*
Despite being one of the garden's most prominent features, fencing is also one of its most ignored elements. For their fencing, most people choose common hues like brown or grey. Fence paint, however, comes in practically every color you might like.
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Though it's a significant task and commitment, why not use your fence panels creatively? You can add some brightness to your garden by selecting whatever colors you desire. With just a little work, this might completely change your home if you're on a tight budget.
5. Use a penny to stop blight.
Supplies required: 4–6 cents
Making Cost: $0.04–$0.06*
The garden's Grim Reaper is blight. It is a disease of the plants that makes your beautiful plants wither. Typically, blight is caused by rust, mildew, smut, and other fungi. According to an ancient gardening folktale, if you plant a penny the proper way, it can prevent blight.
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How to insert the penny is shown in a step-by-step visual guide available on Walden Effect. These pennies are especially effective in extremely acidic or alkaline soils since those types of soils cause the quantity of copper to decrease. Putting four or six pennies in the plant pot is another approach to ensuring that the copper in your soil is retained.
6. Use pants to protect melons
Supplies needed: rope and pants
Made for $10
Your melons are the result of a lot of labor; therefore, the last thing you want is for them to go bad. Your fruit can be prevented from decaying by using pantyhose to hold the melons up above the ground and prevent the bottom from becoming rotten.
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Make sure the bottoms of the cantaloupe and the pantyhose contact each other each other as you wrap the hose around it. Pull and gather the hosiery at the top so that you can wrap a length of twine around the gathered area. This will prevent the melon from rotting by raising it off the ground.
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