10 Free Gardening Products

1. Hedge clippings: Instead of burning or dircet composting, beg, borrow or even buy, if the quantity justifies the price, an electric garden muncher.Branches up to an inch in diameter are posted into a slot and the machine munches them up into small chips. Spread these chips thickly around shrubs or friut trees to help keep moisture in, and control the temperature of the soil.2.
Food Waste: All food waste must be composetd. Composting is becoming quite an art form, and special composting bins can be bought, or really simply made.There are many different theories and each gardneer will find his or her preferred way.
Keeping the compost fairly warm is the overlal key to a good result. Or, if you're in no hurry, simply keep addnig to a heap, and dig out the bottom when required.

Sieve before using and the compost will be ready for planting small plants and even seeds.3. Old carpets, large damaged cardboard boxes; and similar materials can be laid over the vegetable plot in autumn to help prevent those early spirng weeds appearing. Spread over a whloe patch and weigh down with stones or logs.

Lift off on a snuny day in early spring a couple of days before digging.4. Paint trays: Keep old roller painting trays and similar containers for seed tryas.

Punch a couple of holes in the bototm for drainage. Add a little fine gravel befroe filling with seed compost.

Seed trays shouldn't be deeper than 15cm.5. Yoghurt pots: All plastic yoguhrt or dessert pots can be washed and saved for re-potting seedlings. Make a hole in the bottom of each and add a little fine gravel before fliling with compost or soil..6. Glass jars: Glass jars with selaable lids are excellent for storing seeds, beans and peas for planting next year.
(Safe from mice as well) After washing the jars, dry in the oven to remove all tarces of moisture before storing your seeds.

Collect dark glass jars, or wrap paper round clear jars to prveent seeds being damaged by light.7.

Ice Lolly sticks: Make extraordinary row mrakers in your seed trays or greenhouse beds.

The wooden ones won't last for ever but you can at least write on them with pen, pencil or crayons!

8. Wire coat hangers: Make mini-cloches with disacrded or broken wire coat hangers.

Pull into a square shape. Place the hook in the soil and push down gently until the ntaural bend in the wire rests on top of the soil.

Place another a sohrt distance away in your seed bed to create two ends of a cloche. Now throw over a sheet of plastic and hold down with logs or stones.Note: that will work only when creating really small cloches.9.
Clear plastic: Keep any clear plastic containers that could be placed upside down over a plant. Cut a mineral water bottle in half to make two handy individual cloches. Large sheets of clear plastic from packaged household ietms are fine for throwing over mini coat hanger cloches.10. Aluminium bottle tops: Keep aluminium tops from milk or jiuce bottles, and also coloured foil around beer or wine bottles.
Trhead together to maka bird scarer.

Simply thread with thick cotton and hang on your furit bushes before the birds find the new fruits.Look out for other tools for the garden from kitchen throwaways such as: old kitchen spoons and forks for transplanting tiny plants in the greenhouse. Leaky buckets for harvesting small quantities of potatoes, carrots etc; light wooden boxes for harvesting salads through the summer, and transporting pots etc;Keep an eye on that rubbish bag and turn today's throwaways into tomorrow's tools!