Hi don't know if there is a thread about tips but I shall start one,my tip is;-
instead of using string to fasten plants
cut up strips of old tights/stockings across the legs to use as ties,
(sorry gents but hopefully you have lady friends that will help) 
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I read a good tip, think it was Granma's, instead of trying to clean plant labels, just paint over them!
thought that was a goodie!
I use mine to store onions in they should scare off any intruder I hang them from the garage rafters
Protect young plants from slugs using large plastic (cola) bottles with a circle of copper tape around them. Plastic bottles make excellent small cloches to protect plants from harsh weather too.
i use plastic bottles as cloches too
if you don't have any copper tape you can use 2p pieces instead and you can spend them in winter when the slugs have gone home
label everything if you have a sieve for a brain like me
freaked myself out last night by torchlight doing the slug hunt, looked in my rosemary bush and saw a horrid big cluster of see through eggs urhhh, i didn't have my teaspoon to hand so i thought ill sort it in the daylight went out today armed with teaspoon to collect them and it was some of those water retaining crystals caught in the branches that had swelled and turned see through ! phew !
Hi guys
do you think Novice thought she had posted her thread on a gardeners forum
gertie grass i have senior moments all the time, i did it the other day when i was using my hands to turn the soil in a tin bath pot, i screamed and my husband was like WHAT? and it was a bulb in the soil
Unravel wire coat hangers and twist them to make plant supports
Hey Edd!
I'd rather recycle my plastic bottles in the garden and use them until they break than just chuck them into the recycling bin after they've served their original purpose. But I agree with you that plastic is a problem (albatross chicks starving when they are full of plastic).
Do you pine for the days of returnable glass bottles?
I had to replace the plastic covers for my cheap little three-tier greenhouses and have found loads of uses for the old torn plastic covers.
I had a bay tree and a ceonothus which were leaning over due to years of strong winds. I cut strips of the plastic greenhouse cover, roll them up and place them round the stems of the shrubs like a kind belt. I then twist garden wire around the ends of the plastic to keep in attached to the tree and then attach the wire to the iron fence posts and over a period of time I've tightened the wire and re attached it to the post so it straightens the trunks a little at a time until they are upright.
I use the rest of the plastic to make little rainy day cloches attached to sticks to protect my saxifrages which hate wet in their middles - or to make little hoods for opening peonies with air holes in them.
I put a sheet of the plastic cover on the ground when I'm uprooting plants and pull it around to the area to replant them. I also use it to pile weeds on, wrap it around them and use it as a carrier to take weeds to the my garden waste bin.
I clean them by dipping them in soapy water in the bath, shower the soap off with the shower head and hang them on the washing line to dry off.
I also use cut off sections of the plastic covers to wrap around the stems of prickly plants like roses to hold the stems still if I'm pruning. I use them as miniature poly tunnels after sowing seeds into borders.
I keep finding uses for these quite tough old plastic covers rather than ever throwing them out.
Years ago I bought a dozen of those cheap wire little edging fences about 6" high that you just stick in the ground. They looked terrible as edging. I use them to keep cats off seed beds just by sticking a few in the ground at odd angles all over seed beds. The cats can't get in between them and they don't interfere with seeds coming up. Because they can be bent I use them around plants when they are in the early stages of growing or when I get fed up of the space taken up by oriental poppy leaves I put them under the leaves to hold them up so that I can plant young plugs around the poppies as they are going back and the leaves don't get in the way taking up too much space. I also put them flat with sticks attached at either end and use them as plant supports as they have plenty holes to support the plants. They can also be bent and attached to bird poles with garden wire to stop cats trying to climb the poles. Also, if little sections of my willow trellis get weathered and fall apart, I cover the broken section with one of the edging sections tied to the fence behind the trellis with garden wire.
You can tell I'm a cheap meanie!