Flower gardens are a great addition to the landscape of a home or an office area. Gardening needs planning, work and effort to enable a profusion of blooms in the growing season.
Here are a few tips to grow and maintain flower gardens:
- Prepare A Garden Bed: We often like to add a new garden bed to the landscape. But adding a new garden bed needs to be done carefully. Tilling soil, removing grass and adding fertilizer works well only when flower-bed is prepared by gardener in the fall. This allows for two seasons when fertilizer breaks down and benefits soil using more organic matter and increased ability of drainage. You may be impatient and find it difficult to wait, but remember- your plants will benefit greatly.
- Mulch: Many novice gardeners throw whatever they like as mulch to the flower bed. Organic mulch made of shredded straw, pine and wood is good at smothering weeds and holding water below the mulch layer in the soil. Most weeds can be smothered by adding mulch up to 4 inches deep.
- Watering: A well aimed sprinkler is the easiest and best way to water gardening plants. This makes the top few inches of soil wet but does not permit water to permeate deep into the soil. Buy a soaker hose and wind it inside your flower bed. Switch on water in light flow such that it deeply waters the garden to reach the roots of annual and perennial flowers.
- Care for Bulbs: Do not prune away foliage around bulbs of spring blooming plants like hyacinth, tulips and daffodils. Before pruning, allow foliage to die away naturally and totally. The growing bulb is nourished by the foliage, and it shouldn’t be removed while it is still in green colour.
- Perennials: Based on the plant, perennials provide some weeks of blooms in the growing season. The flowers give an excellent backdrop for the landscape. But another consideration can be the nature of foliage. Foliage adds personality to the garden and backdrop for other types of blooms, after the fading away of flowers.
- Annual Flowers: These need minimal maintenance when compared to the beautiful impact it has on the garden. Annuals can be maintained by pruning flower heads for profuse blooming of the plants.
- Removing Weeds: This is a constant concern in your flower garden. Weeds compete for nutrients and moisture in the soil with ornamentals. Smother, pull or hoe weeds as frequently as possible to keeps these pests at bay.
- Cleaning Hands: To prevent dirt building up under your finger nails while gardening, begin by drawing finger nails across a bar of soap. This will seal away the bottom of your nails from dirt. After you have completed work in the garden, use a nail brush to remove the soap and dirt for sparkling clean nails.
- Measuring Stick: Turn a long handled tool into a measuring stick by making marks with permanent marker using a measuring tape.
You can cultivate a great garden by following the above tips. You can also check for tips online for how to grow particular flowers. In addition to your garden flowers, you can also buy flowers online to adorn your rooms.
