3. Sort Seed Packets Using a Little Photo Album
Supplies Required: Photo album, optional post-its or tabs
* Cost of Making: $10–$15
You may have observed that seed packets might become a little jumbled if you store them in a drawer or box. Although physical images may seem outdated, you may still make good use of your physical photo albums. The only difference is that the images in your albums will now be seed packets rather than images of you and your loved ones.
Organize Seed Packets With A Little Photo Album
Since photo album pockets are typically 4″ x 6″, they are ideal for holding one seed packet per pocket. Additionally, you may utilize tabs or post-it notes to distinguish between different kinds of fruits, veggies, and flowers, converting your homemade packet organizer into an index.
4. Change Out Your Vegetables a Year Round
No materials are required.
Making Cost: N/A
You’ve probably heard about crop rotation in relation to huge farms that encompass more than a thousand acres. Nevertheless, the approach might also be advantageous for household food gardens. Crop rotation is the practice of relocating the vegetable plants in the garden according to the season.
Every Year, Rotate Your Vegetables
Vegetables should be rotated, or their family rotated, such that a vegetable grows in the same spot only once every three or four years. Crop rotation has many advantages and is used to control soil fertility, prevent pest and insect damage, and slow the spread of dangerous vegetable diseases and blights. The rotating vegetable family includes legumes, nightshades, chicories, umbels, chenopods, brassicas, and allium.
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