I’m a gardening expert – how to get the greenest lawn using a cheap kitchen spice

PREPPING for spring and summer activities includes making sure your lawn looks as pristine as it can be.

And luckily, you can do just that with a cheap kitchen spice: cinnamon.

Lawn care expert, Joe, who runs the gardening site Joe’s Lawn Care, shared that all you need to make your grass greener and healthier is cinnamon.

“Believe it or not, cinnamon contains a bunch of anti-fungal qualities that are able to prevent and stop diseases from spreading on seedlings,” he wrote on his website.

“That could be your lovely new lawn or it could be that veg patch you tried to start in Lockdown 1.0.

“This is because most fungus needs moisture in order to spread and, […] cinnamon sucks the moisture out of the fungi. Oh, and it smells great too.”

And if you have no fungi overtaking your garden, then your lawn will grow and look as healthy as can be.

Previously, a 28-year-old mum from Bedfordshire took to Instagram to post a reel explaining how she gave her pal’s garden an incredible makeover ahead of the house being listed for sale.

“1 HOUR, $100, ONE BIG IMPROVEMENT,” she wrote in the caption, before adding that they used Cupressus Goldcrest Pyramids, at a cost of $6.75 each, and decorative stones from the reduced pile of their local Homebase for the garden border.

First up, they marked out the border around the garden.

Then, they used a spade to lift up the dirt.

Ideally, the weed-control fabric would be added underneath at this point but Jasmine admitted that they “skipped that part.”

“You can also add a thin piece of timber or plastic edge border to keep this neat,” she added.

She also wrote in the reel caption that if she’d had more time, she’d definitely have added an edging.

“For a neater, dog/childproof way to keep the stones in place, I’d definitely put down a nice thin 1×1 wooden border strip, protected and painted to suit your garden color scheme, or grab some of that plastic border roll to keep the lines neat and stones in place,” she said.

Next up, they dug holes for the shrubs and planted them.

If you have gone with the weed-control fabric, you can cut Xs in the fabric and plant through there, Jasmine said.

“You can also limit their growth by planting them IN their pots,” she continued.

Jasmine added in the reel caption: “I’ve had some in my garden planted in a 10cm wide bed right against my house and 2 years later, they’re only 50cm tall and likely won’t grow anymore as they haven’t got the space.”