Sophie has a wonderful idea for protecting seed startings from starving insects. Subscribe http://ab.co/GA-subscribe

Millipedes, earwigs, and slaters are all ground-dwelling insects with biting and also chewing mouth parts that can clean out prone plants almost overnight.

To make sure your gardening efforts don’t finish before you’ve truly begun, Sophie shows you how to repurpose a common yard item and also turn it right into a ‘seedling citadel’.

What you need:
– Some old plastic pots
– A set of scissors
– Copper tape (functions as a snail as well as insect barrier due to the fact that they don’t like to cross it).

What to do:.
1. Cut the bottom of your pot so the base is removed.
2. Cover some copper tape around the top of the pot, just under the edge.
To truly safeguard your pot in the ground push it down concerning 2 centimetres, that will safeguard it from abrupt gusts of wind and also birds. You can remove the pots after a couple of weeks.

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