Coming to a suburban area, we have the opportunity to change the environment and the pace of life, change the type of activity, distract from the problems associated with work, enjoy creation and creativity. People leave the city in search of harmony, which is inherent in nature, and which the city dweller lacks. There you can experiment to your heart's content, putting into practice country tricks and tips for growing crops.
Enterprising summer residents
Country house owners are big inventors of little country tricks. The gardener's brain is an amazing organ. The time spent on earth, the observed patterns and properties of nature turn an ordinary city dweller into a cunning, dodgy, savvy and very practical summer resident. Only he can make a garden tool out of a piece of a rusty pipe, a canopy for tomatoes out of a mesh, a flower pot out of an old shoe, a greenhouse out of old window frames.
After all, onlyan enterprising summer resident may think of putting his mobile phone in an empty bucket while working in the garden! And not at all because of the fear of losing it, but to increase the volume of the incoming call. In the article, we will consider some country tricks or useful tips that make life easier for home owners.
Scarecrow
By the end of summer, the country garden is full of colors of the ripening crop. It's time to protect him from intruders with the most humane means - a scarecrow. It is enough just to build a guard in the form of a spectacular blond. The growth of the scarecrow depends on the length of the vertical stick on which the horizontal stick is attached. A spacious shirt or jacket is put on this base, and trousers are attached from below. If you fill clothes with straw or dry grass, you get a funny figure of a cheerful summer resident. The face of the scarecrow is made of pink cloth stuffed with straw. It remains to draw a nose, mouth and eyes or sew on buttons and a cheerful look is ready. They make a hairstyle from the same straw and put a hat on the scarecrow's head. The original watchman of the suburban area is ready.
Easy cross
How wonderful it is to spend fine summer days with your family in the country! Peace and quiet, a riot of colors, fresh air, a salad of freshly picked cucumbers or a tomato, a dessert of freshly picked strawberries … Beauty and pleasure until the summer sun starts to bake. Of course, a parasol is needed in this case, but there is a wonderful and simple alternative to it - to build a sail on the branches. To do this, tie a suitable piece of fabric withwith a light ornament to branches or wall hooks using ribbons - and any corner of the garden will acquire the charm of a Persian terrace somewhere in the Shah's harem.
Cultivation of strawberries
In June comes the real strawberry abundance. Delicious red berries ripen in summer cottages. Strawberries grown in natural conditions and ripened under the rays of the sun are much tastier and he althier than their genetically modified clone. Experienced summer residents use a different method of growing strawberries from seeds. Its summer trick is that before sowing, a layer of snow is poured onto the surface of the soil in a container. And then the seeds are scattered over it. As the snow begins to melt, it draws the seeds into the soil. Also, melt water has a stimulating effect, and the energy of seed germination increases due to this. When choosing seeds for planting, it is necessary to take into account the hybridity of the variety. Berries with the same excellent qualities will only be available if strawberry seeds are not selected from hybrid plants.
Cement garden vases
Flower lovers know how much work and investment it takes to decorate a summer cottage. How to beautifully arrange a personal plot with the help of improvised means, using country tricks and useful tips? There are a lot of ways to build colorful vases and flower pots from all kinds of materials with your own hands.
The cheapest and original way to make flowerpots from cement and fabric. Any fabric is suitable, even unnecessary towels or curtains, scarves. An old thing made of fabric can always be found in the country. Mix in a metal bowlcement mortar, in equal proportions we take cement and sand for it. The consistency of the solution should resemble thick sour cream. We turn over a suitable bucket upside down, put it on a low stand so that the fabric can hang freely. We wrap the bucket with a protective film.
We dip the fabric into the cement mortar and then straighten it on the prepared container. It should be carefully leveled so that the bottom is flat, without wrinkles. On the sides, a fabric soaked in cement is laid out in beautiful folds. All this dries until the solution hardens for a day or two. Then the pot is carefully removed from the mold. The edges should be filed with a hacksaw or sandpaper so that they are not sharp. The finished vase can be decorated as you wish. It remains only to make drainage holes in the flowerpot with a drill, fill in the ground and plant your favorite plant.
Each owner of a country house can embody original ideas for decorating his site, choose auxiliary materials for work. For the construction of such a design, it is not necessary to purchase special material. Having dreamed up a little, applying some country tricks, the design is embodied using unnecessary furniture, old car tires, plastic dishes, toys, building debris. For example, broken pots, kettles, kegs, carts are perfect for creating mini-flower beds in the country.
To create original cottage decorations, you can involve all the inhabitants of the cottage and listen to their creative wishesand ideas.
Using tires
Almost everyone has old car tires that are great for building neat blooming oases. Using fantasy, a knife, and bright colors, you can make chic bases for flower beds out of rubber tires or cut out figures of animals and characters from your favorite fairy tales and cartoons. Paint them with multi-colored paints and create colorful single-tiered or multi-tiered flower beds. They look very beautiful and fit any style of garden or garden design. A few photos of country tire tricks are below in the article.
From this material you can build various animals, interesting things, swings. You can use any paint for exterior work for decoration. You just need to connect your imagination and create!
Original fence
The days when the owners of country houses erected inconspicuous fences and fences have already sunk into oblivion. Modern summer residents for this building use country tricks with their own hands from improvised means: hand-drawn pictures, painted jugs, colored crafts, flowers in pots. If you decorate the fence with shiny computer disks, they will not only make the site original, but also beat off the sunbeams, creating bright highlights.
Greenhouse from the fridge
Many useless things that have served their time with the help of country tricks and practical knowledge can become very useful. For example, a broken refrigerator can turn into an excellent greenhouse. To do this, putit on wooden logs and pour a layer of grass inside, then manure and another layer of grass. From above, cover everything with a layer of earth mixed with ash. Close the door and leave for the winter. In early spring, open a self-made greenhouse and pour hot water over everything. You can sow seeds for seedlings. Cover with glass or transparent film and water from time to time. With the first warm days, you will have seedlings ready for planting in the open ground.
If a large number of glass bottles have gathered, you can beautifully arrange a flower bed in the country or in the garden, as well as build original paths or fences from them, there are many options for their use.
Old furniture - new life. Furniture that is outdated and replaced with new can get new life for many more years. Having removed the old paint from it, they bring to life summer tricks from improvised materials with their own hands:
- removing the seats of the chairs, instead of them put large flower pots;
- from the back of the chair in various versions they build a shelf, a hanger for small things, a unique photo frame;
- if you remove the legs of a wooden bed and hang it on solid ropes or chains, you get a garden swing or an original hanging bed;
- just remove the legs of the chair with the back and tie a rope, you get a children's swing;
- excellent material for racks, shelves, mirrors, hangers is obtained from old doors.
How to apply plastic?
Plastic is a cheap raw material with properties such as strength, flexibility and durability.service life.
Inventive summer residents came up with a lot of use cases for old plastic:
- interesting crafts;
- garden helpers;
- protection for trees and flowers;
- mini-greenhouse for growing seedlings;
- bird feeder;
- washbasin;
- watering can;
- street flower pots.
Such do-it-yourself country tricks will not only bring great benefits to the household, but will also serve for a long time.
Plastic bottle dividers
Original products - curtains or air partitions for separating the country space. Such curtains made of plastic bottles look like weightless flowers, shimmering in the sun. Serve as an interesting decoration of the veranda or terrace in the country.
Gardening tricks
Many country tricks or useful tips make planting and caring for plants much easier. If the cottage has a cardboard egg tray, it will undoubtedly come in handy for planting seeds. All summer residents know how laborious the process of thinning carrots in country gardens is. To prevent densely planted carrots, you need to put the tray on the garden bed before planting the seeds and press it lightly. So you get many cells at once at an equal distance from each other. In this way, planting as well as weeding carrots will be greatly facilitated.
If there is very little space for a garden near the dacha, and you want to plant as many plants as possible, there is a way out. The owners of three acres should not be sad about the lackplaces, because with a skillful approach it will be enough for a beautiful flower bed and a garden. Many of the vegetables ripen until mid-summer, this property must be taken into account to compact plantings. As a rule, it is advisable to plant onions and garlic between strawberries, and cabbage between potatoes.
Confirmed by practice that it is better to plant tomatoes next to blackcurrant bushes - they will be easier to tie up, and currants will be protected from insects with tomato phytoncides.
To speed up the ripening of tomatoes, it is enough to put an ordinary plastic bag on a bush with ripe and unripe fruits. At the same time, volatile substances that help ripen tomatoes will accelerate the ripening of unripe tomatoes. The result will be obvious in 2 days. The same result can be achieved if 3 cm from the root of the stems of the tomato stems are wrapped with wire. In addition to quick ripening, this method also increases the sweetness of the fruit.
The yield of carrots summer residents increase by cutting. If you periodically shorten the leaves, the roots become thicker and gain weight. As a rule, the harvest of young trees is small, but in order to increase it, a summer trick is used - all side branches are tied at an angle of 45 degrees. At the same time, more flower buds appear on them, and a year later they will become full-fledged fruits, which will increase the yield several times.
Vertical Wall Garden
They can decorate the empty exterior walls of a house, garage or fence. A great idea would be to grow a vertical garden in plastic bottles. This will require several dozen two-literplastic bottles, scissors, twine or wire and two washers for each container. It is necessary to pierce several holes in the bottom of each bottle, and lay drainage, sand or special filler under the soil. And you can grow a whole garden in such vertical gardens: herbs, spices, flowers, and medicinal plants.
There is one more of the summer tricks - growing strawberries in a column. To do this, the column is covered with nutrient soil and holes are made in it along the entire height, into which strawberry seedlings are planted. Picking a ripe berry is much more convenient - it hangs from the garden and is always clean from the ground.
The use of this design not only frees up a lot of space, but also makes strawberries protected from garden pests, and the ripe berry will remain unharmed.
And, importantly, whole, because the berry does not come into contact with the ground at all, which means that the berry will not deteriorate.
There is another plus to this method of planting strawberries - decorative. Vertical beds look very beautiful, especially when green bushes are full of red ripe berries. Place such berry columns under the windows of a country house, and you can admire them in moments of relaxation.
