Whether you’re looking to grow some delicious produce or beautiful flowers, these tips and tricks for beginners will get you started off on the right foot!

1 How to Make Your Own Compost

How to Make Your Own Compost: We show you how to make compost. We show you what works well put into a compost bin and what you should not put in the bin to make compost. (via Amateur Gardening)

2 Stop Invasive Plants From Taking Over Your Garden

Stop Invasive Plants From Taking Over Your Garden: Control aggressive plants that have spreading root systems with a simple plastic container. (via Family Handyman)

3 Use Vinegar and Salt As a Weed Killer

Use Vinegar and Salt As a Weed Killer: Vinegar has proven itself an effective weed killer. Like most commercial herbicides, it’s non-selective, not caring whether it kills weeds or your petunias. Unlike commercial weed killers, … (via SFGate)

4 Propagate Succulents from Leaves

Propagate Succulents from Leaves: A step-by-step tutorial on propagating succulents from leaves! See how to grow more succulents from the ones you already own! (via Succulents and Sunshine)

5 Easily Make Your Own Watering Can

Easily Make Your Own Watering Can (via A journey to a dream…)

6 Milk Bottle Garden Tools

Milk Bottle Garden Tools (via A Farm of Your Home)

7 Use coffee filters to prevent soil failing out of the pot

Use coffee filters to prevent soil failing out of the pot (via Simply DIY 2)

8 Make eggshell seedling pots to sprout your garden for less

Make eggshell seedling pots to sprout your garden for less: Skip store bought plants this gardening season. Sprout seedings in eggshell seed starters and watch your savings grow. (via Squawkfox)

9 The Secret to Long-Lasting Hydrangeas

The Secret to Long-Lasting Hydrangeas: The Secret to Long Lasting Hydrangeas (via The Happier Homemaker)

10 Preserve herbs by freezing them into ice cubes

Preserve herbs by freezing them into ice cubes: Growing your own herbs can be a big money saver, but sometimes you have more than you need. Check out these ways to save those herbs for later use! (via Our Family World)

11 How to Make Moss Graffiti

How to Make Moss Graffiti: The original guide to creating moss graffiti, the eco-friendly way to tag the world. Our tutorial will teach you how to easily make graffiti with moss! (via Stencil Revolution)

12 Roses in spuds

Roses in spuds: Taking rose cuttings an easy to follow guide, we also show you how to grow your roses in potatoes. (via Amateur Gardening)

13 Ikea Hack Herb Garden

Ikea Hack Herb Garden: Bring some summer to your walls! (via Curbly)

14 Basil Propagation from Cuttings

Basil Propagation from Cuttings (via Thyme to Garden Now)

15 Vodka and Citrus Sodas Keep Cut Flowers Fresh

Vodka and Citrus Sodas Keep Cut Flowers Fresh: Lemon-lime soda brightens those drooping bouquets and vodka gets in the way of aging (via Scientific American)

16 Make Plant Markers from Broken Pots

Make Plant Markers from Broken Pots: Need to identify plants in your garden but don’t want to use those little plastic garden markers? Get creative by repurposing old, broken pots to use as plant markers. You can even give the illusion that the plants are growing right out of… (via wikiHow)

17 Make Your Own Nursery Trellis

Make Your Own Nursery Trellis (via Apartment Farm)

18 Grow Potatoes Vertically

Grow Potatoes Vertically (via Tipnut)

19 Pot-in-Pot method of growing annuals and perennials

Pot-in-Pot method of growing annuals and perennials (via Florida Friendly Plants)

20 Tips for Moving Heavy Potted Plants

Tips for Moving Heavy Potted Plants: Big outdoor planters are a great way to display flowers, but moving them is backbreaking. Here’s a simple way to cut the weight in half;and improve drainage at the same time. (via Family Handyman)

21 Give Your Garden A Calcium Boost

Give Your Garden A Calcium Boost: I don’t compost, but I do keep my rinsed eggshells and once I have a big pile full I put them in the blender. and turn them into powder to spread out in the garden. If you try this, be forewarned (via Graceful Little Honey Bee)

22 Rubbermaid Container Garden

Rubbermaid Container Garden (via Back Porch Garden)

23 Use Diapers to Retain Moisture

Use Diapers to Retain Moisture (via Sandpaper and Silly Putty)

24 Gardening with Epsom Salt

Gardening with Epsom Salt: Epsom salt (Magnesium Sulfate) is a well-reputed organic gardening supplement. Discover the benefits of Ultra Epsom Salt as a soil enhancement: create lush green grass, full roses, healthy houseplants, strong trees and vibrant gardens. (via Salt Works)

25 Use Citrus Peel Starter Pot For Seedlings

Use Citrus Peel Starter Pot For Seedlings: I’m going to transplant the whole thing into the garden. The peel will compost directly into the soil to nourish the plant as it grows (via My Roman Apartment)

26 From bath organizer to succulent garden

From bath organizer to succulent garden: Materials: Visen bath caddies Description: I have a tiny patio which receives very little light, but I still wanted a home for plants. The patio wall managed to get a little light, so I lined the 2 bath caddies with felt, filled em with dirt and stuffed them full up succulent cutting to make a (via IKEA Hackers)

27 Keep Plants Watered for Days with Nothing But Paper Towels

Keep Plants Watered for Days with Nothing But Paper Towels: If you’re going on vacation for a few days and don’t have a way to keep your indoor plants watered, you can actually keep them alive with some paper towels and a glass of water. (via Life Hacker)

28 Use Car Wax to Unstick Hinges

Use Car Wax to Unstick Hinges: Put extra materials and even stuff destined for the trash heap to work in your home with these ideas from TOH’s 10 Uses column (via This Old House)

29 Use Baking Soda to Get Sweet Tomatoes

Use Baking Soda to Get Sweet Tomatoes: Use Baking Soda to Get Sweet Tomatoes Home grown tomatoes are nothing at all like those that you buy in the stores. Even the vine ripened ones cant compare in taste to the sweetness of those you grow yourself. Here is a neat tip to get the most sweet tomatoes each year. Put normal baking (via The Gardening Cook)

30 Store tools with sand and mineral oil to prevent corrosion and rust

Store tools with sand and mineral oil to prevent corrosion and rust: Secret substitutions to help with planting, growing, watering, and more in the garden. (via Real Simple)