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Are uninvited animals destroying your garden and vegetables? This gardener's trick stops them without a drop of poison!

Anyone who has a garden – whether it’s a vegetable patch, a flower oasis or even a proud herb spiral – knows that heartbreaking moment. Just when everything is going well, the neighbor’s cat comes by and declares it his new bathroom. Or your dog who thinks lettuce is the new agility course.

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Every Good Gardener's Secret Tool: How Baking Soda Repel Insects, Treat Mold, and Extend the Life of Flowers

If you think baking soda is just for baking and freshening up your fridge, think again. This indispensable household item also has incredible power in the garden – and without the harmful chemicals, high costs or complicated procedures.

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6 gardening secrets: how to grow a large lavender tree from lavender that blooms like crazy - year after year!

The lavender tree is not just an ornamental plant, but a fragrant bonsai that, with the right combination of variety, soil, pruning and care, blooms all year round. Read how to choose the perfect seedling, prepare the ideal soil, shape the crown and ensure optimal growth and abundant flowering. So how to grow a large lavender tree.

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The best home garden: These 7 herbs that grow better in water than in soil: no dirt, just water and light and the WOOW effect

The best home garden! If the word “garden” first makes you think of muddy nails, broken pots, and plants that, despite your tearful prayers, died in a week – let us cheer you up: there is a world where plants grow without soil. No mud, no compost, no strange instructions from Aunt Marica from Vrhnika. Just water. And you, a confident herbalist in pajamas.

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How to shape lavender into elegant round bushes – almost like a Provencal hairstyle

How to shape lavender into elegant round bushes?! We reveal in this article! Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia and its relatives) is like a fashion icon among plants – fragrant, beautiful and with a gentle wild soul. But without the right care, it quickly becomes a disheveled diva that takes up half the garden and loses its charm. So if you want your lavender to remain low, round and wonderfully fragrant – like a small fragrant cushion that has just returned from a spring treatment – then pruning is a necessity, not a whim. It needs to be shaped gently but firmly in the first years after planting. In this article, we reveal how to create a dream lavender bush with sharp scissors, a good sense of symmetry and a little gardening irony.

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Homemade aphid spray – a natural insecticide that saves your plants before aphids take over

Have you ever looked proudly at your garden in the morning, only to freeze for a second at the sight of tiny green invaders grazing on your plants like an all-you-can-eat buffet? Aphids and whiteflies aren’t just an aesthetic problem – they’re a serious threat to your vegetables, herbs and even ornamentals. And while store shelves are crumbling under the weight of chemical preparations with names that sound like lab experiments, the solution may be right in your kitchen. It’s homemade spray!

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What they won't tell you at the garden center: a natural weed killer made with just 3 ingredients that will save your garden from a green invasion

Tired of fighting weeds that grow faster than your morning bad decisions? Forget expensive herbicides with ingredients that even a chemist can't pronounce. The solution is cheap, natural, and already waiting under your kitchen sink. This is a natural weed killer made with just 3 ingredients.

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The secret of professional gardeners: How to create an elegant lavender tree from ordinary lavender

An elegant lavender tree?! If your garden or balcony is still waiting for that wow effect that something simple yet sophisticated can conjure up, then it's time to get to know the real star among plants – the lavender tree. We're not talking about an ordinary shrub that we plant at the edge of the lawn, but a select, cultivated lady that, with its structure, scent and personality, becomes an adornment of every terrace. And the best part? You can grow it yourself.

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10 Amazing Ways to Use Baking Soda in the Garden: A Natural Solution for Healthy, Lush, and Resilient Plants

In the world of gardening, where the search for natural, effective and environmentally friendly solutions is increasingly important, baking soda is proving to be a real star among home remedies. This simple, versatile substance, which we mostly associate with baking or cleaning, also hides an extraordinary potential in the care of plants, soil and garden environment in general. It is not just folk wisdom, but proven practices supported by numerous gardeners and research in the field of agronomy. How to use baking soda in the garden?

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How to grow bougainvillea that will bloom until late autumn: a Mediterranean diva that all the neighbors will admire

Bougainvillea is a plant that rewards perseverance. It is not one of those that we nurture with tenderness and excessive care - quite the opposite. If we want to bring out its most spectacular appearance from it, we must set boundaries for it, deliberately "provoke" it and offer it strict but thoughtful care.

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7 aromatic herbs that grow great in water – for urban gardeners with a fragrant garden in a jar

Forget about the hoe, the dirt under your nails, and that one single watering you forgot just before your vacation. If you're more of an urban type who wants to enjoy your vegetables—not "grow" them in the full agrarian sense of the word—there's a more elegant way. Water. Light. And herbs that do just fine without rooting in the mud.

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6x secrets of giant tomatoes: yours will soon be like them too! So how to grow giant tomatoes!

The path to giant tomatoes: no shortcuts, with the secrets of botanical masters! If you think your tomatoes this year look like they were drawn by a child with their eyes closed, get ready - it's time to turn your vegetable garden into a stadium for gigantic, red stars. And yes, your neighbors will whisper! We are publishing - 6x secrets of giant tomatoes!

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