Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Having A Plan For Your New Garden To Ensure Success

By Iola Lazier


A garden makes a home look great but does even more than that. There are many benefits that gardening can provide you, besides the satisfaction of seeing your garden looking its best. It can be relaxing and a great way to tackle stress in your life. It can teach you about the wonders of nature. The effects can be profound, especially if you have any talent at it.

Keeping pests out of a vegetable garden can be difficult. You can't use chemicals as they're the last thing you want to be eating when you enjoy the fruits of your labor. Remain alert in order to control garden pests. If you happen to notice them early on, you can control them just by physically removing them from your plants with your hands.

Water is essential to maintaining a vibrant garden. Plants, just like people, cannot survive without water. When the sun is especially hot, is is important to make sure the soil around your plants does not dry up. Watering the garden properly can make a garden be productive.

Make a plan for your garden. Having a planting plan will help you correctly identify the young plants once they start to sprout. You can also avoid losing the smaller plants, or in larger gardens, the small plant groups.

When you are ready to start your garden, think about which vegetables you use often while cooking, and make sure to plant those. This is a good way to get the most use from your garden space and reduce your food expenses too. There is no point in growing something that your family will not eat, especially if you are limited on space.

If your garden is limited in size, consider planting fruit trees that come in dwarf varieties. Many gardens, especially those in city lots, can be very small, but dwarf fruit trees are always welcome, even in the smallest of lots. Don't expect your trees to start bearing their full sized fruit until about 3 to 5 years from the time you plant them. The best time to plant these trees is in the spring, but you need to water them religiously until they start to grow.

Consider planting evergreens that produce berries in your yard. These will help give your garden a burst of color, even in the winter months when most other vegetation has lost their colors. Plants which you can purchase that offer color during the winter are the Winterberry, the Common Snowberry, the American Holly, and the American Cranberrybush.

It is very important to keep the weeds from taking over in your garden. Weeds can turn a thriving garden into a total wasteland. A simple tool that is useful in removing weeds is white vinegar. White vinegar is natural, very inexpensive, and can really kill the weeds! So, use a spray solution of white vinegar if you are tired of pulling those weeds by hand.

Peas have a better chance of survival when their seeds are started indoors as opposed to outside, exposed to the elements. If you plant them inside, they might germinate more effectively. It will create heartier seedlings, which means they will more easily resist the pests and diseases they will encounter in an outdoor environment. After the seedlings have grown strong indoors, it will be time for you to transplant them to outdoor beds.

Now that wasn't as terrible as you thought it would be, right? Like all subjects, gardening is a vast world which has a lot of information available to sift through. The hardest part is finding a place to start. The tips you have found above should help you do just that!




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