Planting Tips

Chapter 33 What utensils and tools are needed for home gardening
Some utensils and tools are needed to grow flowers at home. The commonly used types are as follows.

(1) Flower pots are essential vessels for growing flowers at home. They are different in texture, style, color, and size, and there are many types.It is mainly used for planting flowers or sowing seedlings.

(2) The wooden box is used to place the cultivation soil for cultivation and cutting flower seedlings.If you use a plastic box or a plastic tray, you can also use it.

(3) The sieve is mainly used to sieve out stones or fine dust in the cultivation soil.The size of the sieve hole depends on the need, and it can also be replaced by a plastic pan.

(4) The chopsticks are used to loosen the soil and harden the pot, and can also be replaced by a western food fork.

(5) Scissors should be used to cut thick and dry fruit trees with spring shears. Household scissors can be used to cut off twigs, flowers and leaves, and roots.It can also loosen the soil and weed.

(6) Grafting knife is a special knife used for flower and tree grafting, and the family can also use a small knife instead.

(7) Brushes and brushes are used to remove dust and spider silk from the pots on leaves, to remove pests by applying medicine, and to clean branches and leaves.Brushes can also be used for artificial pollination of flowers.

(8) The sprayer is used for spraying water mist or spraying liquid. There are special ones for small flower growing in the market.You can also use an empty plastic bottle and drill a few small holes in the cap instead.

(9) Small spoon for root watering and fertilization.You can use an old rice spoon or make your own.Homemade distillers use plastic bottles or cans with open tops and just attach handles.

(10) The shovel is used to change pots and shovel soil, and it can also be used to dig tree stumps.There are small special flower shovels, and other shovels can also be used instead, preferably with a pointed shovel.

(11) Use a bamboo stick to remove the root soil when changing the pot, and use a bamboo stick to fill in the soil particles in the rhizosphere when repotting, just use bamboo chopsticks.

(12) Plastic gauze is used to cover the water holes of the basin bottom, and tiles are placed on it to make the drainage more smooth and prevent the invasion of insects and ants.If you use shallow pots, you don't need to put tiles, you can fill more soil.

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