Enjoying time out in the garden between Wimbledon matches this month? With the final ahead of us today, we've got tennis on our minds, and this rather ingenious trick is just the thing to get us ready for the championship's climax.
It may have been a challenge trying to sort your garden out this month without missing the thrilling Wimbledon matches. But there's nothing like having the right essential gardening tools to make your life easier, and more importantly, make your July gardening jobs list go quicker.
Which is why this trick from gardening expert Simon Akeroyd (@simonakeroydgardenwriter on Instagram) immediately caught our eye. Not only does it help get a particularly frustrating job in the garden done quicker and easier, but it's also got a Wimbledon-esque twist to it.
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If you're a proud owner of your own homemade compost heap, you'll be more than aware of how clumpy it can get. And if you're using it to plant up patio container plants, these lumps need to go for the best results.
"When you make homemade compost, it is often very lumpy. This is fine if you just need bulky material for mulching or filling raised beds in the garden," starts Simon.
"But ideally, you want a nice, fine compost for seed sowing and potting on plants. For this reason, I sieve my garden compost. You can use a specific garden composting sieve (a riddle). But an old tennis racquet works just as well!" he continues.
Not only is this a great sustainable garden idea for keeping your compost performing at its best, but reusing old things in this way is a fantastic way to keep costs down in the garden.
"Instead of buying a compost sieve for removing the lumps in your homemade compost, repurpose your old tennis racquet instead. Your old racquet has a perfectly weighted handle, and the racquet holes are the perfect size for removing lumps," Simon points out.
"Gardeners call the process of sieving compost ‘riddling’, and a compost sieve is known as a riddle," Simon explains.
So whether you're a beginner vegetable gardener or are trying to waste less, this is a fantastic new trick to add to your gardening repertoire and a brilliant new use for your beloved tennis racquet.
Looking to waste less in the garden? There are so many ways to reuse household waste through your gardening, it's sustainable and will save you heaps of money in the process too.
