How To Make Gardening Less Difficult Using These Simple Tips

How To Make Gardening Less Difficult Using These Simple Tips

Article by Joseph Goddard

Are you among the people who don’t put in an attractive garden because you think it will just be costly and time-consuming? However, most of these assumptions are false. It’s not hard to put in an eye-appealing garden that will add beauty to your property and actually save your hard-earned cash. As a matter of fact, if you have stress issues, gardening is the perfect solution. It eliminates your stress because it is a very relaxing pastime. A solution would be to plant a low-maintenance garden that doesn’t require a lot of work or time. You will have an attractive “plot” to enjoy throughout the year.

Tip number one is always give your plants the right amount of nutrients for proper growth. This is not to say that you need to spend big dollars on expensive nutrients for your garden. In fact, the easiest way to get your soil ready for your garden each year is to add compost to the dirt before planting. If you don’t know what compost is, it is actually a mixture of organic matter including decomposing leaves and sometimes scraps from the dinner table including vegetables. This can be bought from a store, but it can also be made at home very easily and cheaply. One way to create your own compost is to have a designated area where you put the composting material, or you can use a composting bin. Your soil will have an excellent nutrient base as long as the organic matter that you use has had some time to rot. When you have your compost ready, be sure to add it to your garden beds and dig it into the soil. This will enrich the soil and benefit any plants you put there for months to come. Bugs, snails, slugs, and various other pests have always plagued the home gardener. They love your tender young plants as much as you do. You need to be careful if you consider a chemical pesticide because, not only can they be hazardous to children, adults, and pets, they are usually very expensive. For less money than you can imagine, and using common household ingredients, you can concoct your own organic “critter” repellents. An easy solution for getting rid of slimy snails and slugs is simply to bury a can or plastic container even with the ground in the garden where you suspect the bugs visit. Fill the tin can, or other container, with a little beer. The slugs, lured by the smell or the mixture, will fall into the container and drown. You can also make a simple spray to repel aphids by mixing a tablespoon of dishwasher soap in around one gallon of water. Wherever you see aphids – indoors, outdoors, or in your ornamental garden attacking your roses – spray them with this mixture and they will vanish.

Do you want to make your garden look even better? Use seasonal plants to make your garden stand out. Though very beautiful, they do not last very long, which may require you to tend to them more than other plants in your garden. A place you could start is using annual flowers in your garden. Although very pretty during the spring and summer, these flowers are very sensitive to cold and therefore must be removed before the first frost. If you want to grow vegetables, you need to realize that many of them are seasonal and will not grow all year round. To avoid planting season vegetables at times when they will be affected by the weather, make sure you know what month to plant them in.

Hopefully the tips presented in this article will help you be successful with your next garden. Regardless of what you want to grow, or what time of the year you plant, these strategies should help you be a successful gardener.

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