The Hardship makes us inventive! Lucrative contracts and units are stopped, even for a garden expert, Sabine Reber (50), Social Distancing fashionable. For the from Berne, it is now: With nothing to make something. How can we gardeners still continue to, without having to buy something? The self-employed garden writer and plant expert has experience with it. For many years she has lived in Ireland, and there, with virtually nothing into gardening. For Sunday look she has put together your ultimate tips from everyday objects for the daily requirement.

All kitchen waste as fertilizer is recycled. Tea bags, egg shells, banana peels and Rüstabfälle contain important nutrients. Those who do not compost, you can cut the waste in pieces and in small quantities, directly in the earth dig in. Egg shells and tea bags are especially well-suited for potted plants – just the earth, something loosening and the kitchen waste under it to mix. Strong-smelling waste, such as cabbage or onions, the better the public green collection give.

anyone Who has a garden or enough space on the balcony, to the kitchen waste, mixing and composting. This is always better, because then different nutrients for the plants are available. The best of the best compost accelerators, by the way, is to pee on it! You make the but only if the compost is far behind in the garden. In bought compost accelerator, also nothing else in there as urea.

Half of the orange and grapefruit shells super snails are falling shells. Just Vice versa to lay on the floor and then in the Morning with the snails collect and the best in the forest, re-expose. So it saves the screw grains.

Many of the herbs and also shrubs and perennials from cuttings yourself multiply. Particularly new plants of mint and rosemary can be very easy to pull. They are currently still in the fresh vegetables available in the Store. Of the sprigs, the leaves wegstreifen in the lower half. Then in a glass with water. As soon as roots form, about three cuttings in a pot or directly in the ground planting.

Apple seeds and lemon seeds are familiar to every child – it can be with a little luck, the new plants will attract. Also from the large seeds of Avocado pretty plants. These grow quite rapidly. In our climate, not ripe Avocados are to be expected, but there are beautiful houseplants that may in summer on the balcony. The main thing, something Green for peace of mind.

ginger, turmeric (curcuma), horseradish, Wasabi and other roots are also currently in the larger food stores available. This can be easy to Grow. They are cut into pieces and planted in soil. Ginger and turmeric are very beautiful, decorative plant that can be used to decorate in the summer the balcony. And the roots can be harvested in the autumn and use. Horseradish and Wasabi are also not worth it.

It must not necessarily be potatoes for seed. Leftover potatoes, for example, from the basement, to grow. You put a potato in a bucket with a trigger hole, or in a larger flower pot. Regularly giessen, the own early grow potatoes. Then repot. Garden and potting soil can be ordered online.

Also, Jerusalem artichoke, Knollenziest, Oca, and other root vegetables this way by yourself. Just in the produce Department a few tubers to buy these in a pot with soil, put, regularly casting. Particularly interesting tubers from the Asia Shop, as Taro tubers, which are huge. Also, cassava and other exotic roots to try to bring so to Grow. Usually gelingts.

most of The house plants such as rubber trees or rooms of Linden are propagated by cuttings. A branch cancel, and in a pot with moist soil, new roots will form. Begonias, Saint-Pauli-Violets and some other plants with soft leaves can be propagated via leaf cuttings: Individual leaves on damp soil and wait for roots and young shoots form. Then in a separate pot transplanting.

egg shells, and tea bags

Sabine Reber (50) is a freelance author, plant expert and garden consultant, columnist at the “Swiss love of country” and the author of some 20 books, including three novels and numerous garden books. She lives with her 13-year-old daughter, Jeanne, Rose and her Partner Roland army in an old Chalet in the Bernese Oberland, where she gardens, writes, and customer gardens designed. In addition, it operates with a wall conductor, Ruedi, the project Hikes&Herbs Hählen, together with a private Blog about mountain flowers, gardening tips, and Hiking. Sabine’s garden.ch and hikesandherbs.ch.