Maintaining Your Garden For Beginners
Having a regular maintained garden can give your property the added beauty and warmth to call it home. Maintaining your garden can be very rewarding as well as therapeutic and good for the soul. After all, we are dealing with mother nature and God’s beautiful creations. Gardening can be fun for the whole family as you can watch the results of working with the soil spring up new shoots and blooms that beautify your landscape. You don’t need to be a professional landscaper to achieve good results if you do your research. However, gardening information can be overwhelming at times, so we try to make things simple and to the point for the beginner gardener. We gather the most helpful tips on gardening and landscaping, then post them on our website in the form of articles or links. This gives the beginner gardener a place to find simple tips and tricks to make their garden a success.
Lawn & Garden Care
A beautiful lush lawn makes your home the perfect environment for outdoor family picnics, parties, and a safe space for the kids to play and enjoy backyard activities. To keep your lawn looking plush and green, you will need some regular maintenance to keep it under control. Aeration and fertilizing are important parts to keeping a healthy lawn. Aeration should be done at least once a year in spring and fertilization should be a minimum of twice a year, spring and fall. Ideally, your lawn should be fertilized four times a year.
Line trimming & edging: Grass will naturally grow beyond the edge of your lawn and into driveways, pathways, and garden areas. To keep your property looking neat, you need to trim the edges back on a regular basis. Using a dedicated edger, or a combination line trimmer edger, you can keep these areas edged to beautifully accent your home.
Watering Lawn & Gardens: To keep your lawn and garden green and healthy they need to be watered on a regular basis. Good old mother nature is the best way to get the job done, but when it does not rain you need to manually water. Rather than just sprinkling your lawn and garden on a daily basis, it is better to give them a good soaking at least once a week so that it will encourage good root growth.
Back To The Garden
Your lawn isn’t the only thing that requires attention; here are a few garden maintenance tips to help provide the best care for your garden. Understanding your plants and their needs is the first step to a successful garden. Proper planting, feeding, watering and pruning are all part of thriving garden.
Mulching & stone: If you want to add an extra touch of beauty to your garden area, try adding mulch or some decorative river stone. Mulching can also cut down on the weeding of your garden making it much easier to maintain. For added weed control you can put down landscape paper before mulching. Many professional landscapers use this method to keep those pesky weeds from sprouting up and taking over your garden.
Gardening Quick Tips
- When selecting annuals or parennials for your garden, always try to select bigger healthier looking plants.
- Make sure you select plants that will grow good in your area. Check with your local garden center.
- Plan and place your garden before you plant to see how it will look. A well planed garden will flurish with beauty.
- Dig whole twice as wide as container, add some nutrients, water hole, and plant level or slightly above ground.
- Mulch area after planting and give the ground a good watering every day for two weeks till plants become acclimated.
- Keep your plants trimmed, pruned, watered and weeded this season and enjoy the peaceful enviorment of a beautiful garden.