Do you always admire your neighbor’s pristine garden. You may think your neighbor is harboring a secret about having such a healthy garden. Truthfully, there is no super-secret formula for a gorgeous garden. Once you learn some basic rules to follow, you will be ready to plant your own garden. Start learning more about gardening right here with these tips.
Start your plants in some pots and plant its seedlings in the garden. Doing this betters your odds of your plants making it to adulthood. This also enables you to close gaps between planting cycles. Your seedlings will be ready to be planted when you remove your old mature plants.
Make garden tools do double duty as handy makeshift rulers. Handles of things such as rakes, hoes or shovels make excellent measuring instruments. All you have to do is lay them on the floor then use a measuring tape to measure their length. Then, transfer the measurements to the handle using a permanent marker. The next time you find yourself in your garden, you will have one large ruler right at your fingertips.
Consider planting slug-proof perennials. Snails and slugs can do irreparable damage to your garden in a single night. Young plants with susceptible leaves are favorite meals for slugs, including those with smoother or thinner leaves. Perennials that are unappetizing in taste, or that have hardened and hairy leaves, are not a favorite of slugs or snails. Examples of these include euphorbia, hellebourus and achillea. Others you may want to consider are campanula and heuchera.
Baking Soda
You do not need store-bought chemical treatments for plant mildew. Mix some baking soda and a very small amount of liquid soap into water. Once every week, you should spray the mixture on your plants; the mildew will disappear shortly thereafter. Baking soda will not damage your plants and treats the mildew gently but efficiently.
Fill your garden with bulbs if you want to enjoy beautiful flowers through the spring and into summer. Since bulbs are easy to grow and resistant to poor weather conditions, they will grow without fail year after year. You can select bulbs that bloom at many different times, so with a little work, you could have flowers popping up all the way from the start of spring to the end of summer.
Grow some wheat grass or cat grass next to the plants your cat seems to prefer. Another option is to place offensively smelling objects on the topsoil near and around the plants you want to protect. Citrus peels or mothballs are a couple of examples.
The best gardens start with seeds, as opposed to plants. Starting with your own seeds is more environmentally friendly than buying plants from a nursery. Many nurseries use plastic growing pots that are very seldom recycled. Try buying from organic nurseries and farms so your garden is not using anti-environmental products.
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Many of the tips here are quite easy and don’t require you to have any special talents. You simply need to decide what it is you want to achieve, then use the gardening knowledge you have acquired from this article to make it happen. Observe the response of your plants to the various techniques you try. If you find that it’s not working for you, try something different. Have some patience, and soon you will have a garden that makes your entire neighborhood jealous.