Transform Your Garden: Expert Hacks That Save Time & Cash!

10. Plant wildflower seeds for calm blooms

Supplies required: seeds from wildflowers
Making It: $5–$10*
There's nothing wrong with putting wildflower seeds in your garden, unless you want them to look quite consistent. Actually, planting might be a lot simpler and less stressful overall. Wildflower seeds are easy to sow, but you can't just toss them in the ground.
Plant wildflower seeds for calm flowers. © Shutterstock/Lois GoBe
There is some planning required. The area needs to be cleared of grass in order to prepare the soil for the seeds. Wildflower seeds are best sown in the spring and early autumn. Compress the seeds into the earth after you have manually scattered them. Leave them exposed so they can receive full sunshine and a higher probability of germination.

11. Mix Up Those Bugs

Ingredients: 1 quart of water, 2–4 hot peppers, a tiny onion, and mild green pepper
Made for $10
The Farmer's Almanack suggests using a mixture of items you already have in your kitchen to get rid of aphids like these as well as grasshoppers. Aphids may cause a lot of trouble and damage to flower beds and vegetable gardens, so you should get rid of them right away.
Mix up your bugs. ©Shutterstock/Aleksandr Rybalko
Blend one tiny onion, one mild green pepper, two to four spicy peppers, and one quart of water. Once well combined, transfer this liquid into a spray bottle. Apply to any aphids you come across as needed. In little time at all, they will be repelled, leaving your garden free of pests.

12. Uneven Plant Count

Materials required: a strange quantity of plants
Making Cost: Varies
There's an old proverb that goes, "Plant in threes." Because an odd number of plants have a pleasing appearance, this hack is purely decorative. Planting in odd numbers produces "eye appeal" because the clusters can be placed in an uneven, organic way.
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Compared to a block of straight lines, the plants appear much more natural and have more visual weight as a result. Yet, this cluster-in-odd-numbers trick won't work for you if you prefer your garden to have an even, segmented appearance. Everything is up to your own taste in aesthetics.