A garden is not just something you do to decorate. It is much more than just a creative hobby or pastime. It can give a gardener a feeling of peace. The effects are huge, especially if you’re skilled at it.
Slug-proof your garden with smart perennial choices. A plant can be completely demolished overnight by slugs and snails. Certain perennials that don’t have tough leaves are especially tasty to snails and slugs. Perennials with hairy leaves or bitter taste are unattractive to snails and slugs, keeping them safe from harm. Some of examples of these are achillea, heuchera, campanula, helleborus, and euphorbia.
Plant a variety of annuals, biennials and perennials to keep your flower beds bright. Fast-growing annuals and biennials can brighten up a flower bed, and allow you to change the look from season to season and year to year. They are very helpful when trying to fill in gaps between shrubs and perennials in an area that is sunny. Some of these that you might consider are petunias, marigolds and sunflowers. If those are not flowers you like, you can also try cosmos, holyhocks or rudbeckias.
Stink Bugs
Stink bugs can damage your garden, especially if you garden in the fall. Stink bugs like to reside in tomatoes, beans, and pepper plants, as well as many fruits. Decrease their presence as much as possible to avoid them wreaking havoc in your garden.
Soak the seeds and store in a dark area overnight. Place a small amount of seeds in a little container, while filling it to the brim with water. This will hydrate your seeds and it will cause them to grow faster. Your seeds will then have the best chance possible to survive to maturity.
When mowing your lawn do not cut it as short as possible. If you let your grass keep some height after mowing, it will be able to absorb more sun and moisture resulting in a lusher, greener lawn. If the grass is too short, it produces shallow roots and that leads to a lawn with brown spots and dried-out patches.
The best way to start a garden is from first principles: seeds. When you grow a new garden, start the environmental way, from seeds. The planters used to hold nursery plants are generally not made from eco-friendly materials, and thus get thrown into landfills. Starting from seeds, or buying from one of the few nurseries that use biodegradable planters, prevents this.
Controlling pests can be quite challenging when trying to grow a healthy, hardy vegetable garden. Since your vegetables are meant to be eaten, refrain from spraying them with harsh chemicals. The key to keeping garden pests at bay is to be relentless. If you catch them when there are only a few around, you can actually pick them off the plants by hand.
A typical English garden combines various plants of differing heights in a single bed. By using plants which are all the same height your garden will appear flat and boring.
Using a solution of aspirin and water can prevent certain plant diseases. Try dissolving around one and one half aspirins into around 2 gallons of water for your plants. Spray your plants with the water if they have a disease. Give your plants a spray of the aspirin-water mixture about one time every three weeks.
Use this article to revive your garden. When you see your plants and flowers alive and flourishing, you will feel a sense of happiness that you helped to make that happen. Horticulture can have profound effects within many areas of your life if you take the steps to embrace it. So grab your horticulture gear, and get to work.
Originally posted 2013-05-19 10:44:28.
