• If your old garden hose leaks in several places, put it aside for the hot, dry summer days. Cut it in several new places, plug the one end and attach it to a faucet. It makes an excellent lawn sprinkler.
• To kill weeds between stones and bricks pour a boiling solution of 1 oz. Liquid dish soap and 1 oz. Gin in a quart of water over the area.
• To make an old fashioned rain barrel, buy a 30 gallon plastic garbage can, cut a small hole in the lid, and place it under a down spout with the spout through the hole. Then insert a cheap plastic spigot near the bottom of the can.
• For a great late summer snack for your lawn, mix all of the left-over lawn, garden and flower food you have laying around, and apply it with your hand-held spreader set on the medium setting.
• Make a fertilizer for strawberries and rhubarb by combining 5 lbs. of dry garden food with half a cup of sugar.

Vegetables

• Use newsprint (2 layers thick) underneath any of the natural mulches. The zinc in the ink seems to affect some insects and diseases, and can be spaded in as well since it has a wood fiber base.

• Drop 3 or 4 heads of matches in the bottom of each hole while planting your vegetables. The sulphur releases the elements that are locked into the soil, gives plants the sulphur they need in their diet, and acts as an insect killer.

• Super-Charge your vegetable garden, “electroculture” is a special type of gardening , which uses metal objects, such as copper wire, metal trellises, and tin cans to attract the static electricity in the immediate vicinity. This charges the atmosphere, helping to increase the size, health and yield of your garden. To “Super-Charge” your vegetable garden: use only metal poles for staking, use chicken wire for growing beans upright, use rolled up or mounded chicken wire to raise vine and melon crops off the ground.

• To sow seed evenly, place it in a plastic pot with several holes punched in the bottom. Then shake the pot as you walk along.