If the soil is still moist from winter, wait until the soil crumbles in your fingers, then stir thoroughly and let it sit for about a week. You can then add fertilizer. Gradually introduce your seeds to the outdoors. Start by placing them outside 2-3 hours a day around the area they will be planted. Increase their outdoor time each day until frost date has passed.
English ivy likes lukewarm showers once a week.
Add a little gelatin to the spray to keep bugs off the leaves. Keep your used tea bags for use in and around your plants and gardens. Paper cups filled with beer planted in a garden attracts and captures slugs, snails and root-chewing grubs. Use a disposable syringe to water young seedlings without knocking them over from the force of the water. Plant mint in a plastic bucket with the bottom removed.