Submitted by: LQ
Your lovely garden when swarmed with weeds becomes an overgrown area. This is where gardening maintenance becomes as valuable, as you would like doing impulse makeovers to your interiors.
Garden maintenance is a tough chore, but it is always your pleasure to make things beautiful around your home. So you don t mind going your way out collecting knowledge about specific gardening tools, general garden practices, seasonal gardening advice, garden watering tips, or ways to keep garden weeds under control. Of course, you know where to get all those handy gardening information.
You need not be a professional gardener to muster all those knowledge. Only a devotion to some kind of duty and fascination to learn some basic good practices on how to care for your lawn and garden – and the daily chore of taking care of your garden comes naturally easier.
And as you go along weeding, watering, sprucing and making all greens nice and lovely and doing hush conversations with your blooms you always have to practice environment awareness. Green advocates encourage organic farming. Organic garden maintenance involves the day-to-day care and attention tom your garden sans chemical pesticides and fertilizers. It is best that you heed the call. It will serve your household a lot of health benefits.
On to the chore, taking into consideration these handy rules of green thumb:
Your lawn needs about one inch of water each week. If rain is absent and the weather is very hot, you should apply an inch of water about every three days. And every time, make sure that you water to a depth of 4-6 inches because it promotes deeper, healthier root development.
One deep watering session is much better than watering several times lightly. It also allows longer periods between watering. Stop watering if you notice water running off the lawn. Although different soil types have different watering needs, all soil types except clay soil, loosen the soil around plants by tilling or spading the soil at the base of the plant so it can quickly absorb water and nutrients. Since clay soil absorbs water very slowly, water only as fast as the soil absorbs the water.
To reduce evaporation and soil erosion, take time to cultivate and mulch. Adding mulch is one of the easiest gardening tasks you can undertake. A heavy layer of mulch inhibits weeds by thoroughly covering the soil and depriving weed seeds of the light they need to germinate.
Use a 1 to 2-inch protective layer of mulch on the soil surface above the root area. Choice mulches which are organic in nature shredded or chipped bark, chopped leaves, straw, grass clippings, cocoa hulls, pine needles or compost including leaf moss.
If you have enough trees around, there should be plenty of leaves to gather. You can chop or shred the leaves by running over them a couple of times with a lawnmower. This type of mulch works well on mixed borders and perennial beds because they break down fairly quickly and provide plenty of nutrition to the soil. They just need to be replenished from time to time.
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