3) Build a ladybug hotel Like a miniature world, the garden is home to a thriving insect population. By encouraging certain useful insects to return home to your garden, you will enlist the help of many workers who will tirelessly pollinate your plants, break down dead plant tissue and attack garden pests. And by simply letting nature do its job, you can avoid the use of pesticides and other harmful chemicals.
Ladybugs are among the most popular inhabitants of the garden. Don’t let their kindness fool you, they are voracious hunters who will devour at least 50 aphids, mites, white flies or mealybugs per day.
Building an insect repellent hotel is a great way to encourage ladybugs and other insects to stay. Although there are all kinds of salvage materials that you can use to give them a place to nest and hibernate – such as hollow reeds, branches, leaves, bark and holes drilled in holes. logs – pine cones are a great place to settle in the winter.
You can provide them with a pine cone-shaped room in a multi-insect home. For a quick solution, dedicated to ladybugs, this DIY only requires wire or wire mesh, twine and several pine cones; hang it near your garden in a sheltered area protected from heavy rain. Another option is to install a wall planter (like this one) and fill it with pine cones.
4) Make a pine cone feeder Make a pine cone feeder Filling your yard with activities and songs, birds are not only fun to watch, they also provide free protection from parasites. Birds feed on caterpillars, larvae, mosquitoes and beetles, and often eat the seeds of weeds and other unwanted plants in the garden.
You can make your garden an attractive place for birds to hunt and grow their small cultivars your own bird seeds. This is a make as a george man’soire.
Any pine cone will do, but a large, round and large one will provide the best surface. Remove a few scales from the pine cone to create extra space for food. Cut the pine cone into peanut butter or tallow, then roll in your favorite mixture of bird seeds. Tie it with string or a decorative ribbon and hang it from the branch of a tree.
5) Use pine cones as a filler Large deep planters can take after the bag to fill up to the top. Not only is it expensive, but it is especially the roots of the plants that do not reach the bottom of the pot, so it is completely unnecessary.
While plastic bottles, rocks and cans are some of the filling options available, pine cones are slightly more beneficial. All potatoes are light and will not add extra weight to your pot if you have to move it. The second apples are now to be broken down and will certainly add volume throughout the season. Finally, when the pine cones break down, they have added beneficial nutrients to the soil and are not chemicals like plastics or metals.
When you live pine cones to fill your containers, place them so that they occupy the space levels at the bottom of the pot.
