Tips To Getting Garden Of The Month, Every Month
If you want to win Garden of the Month every month, all you have to do is follow a few simple tips. First, you have to understand and follow basic watering techniques. Never water during the day time or in the still of the night. Water early in the mornings or late in the evenings when the sun is low in the sky. This will keep the water from evaporating into the air. Also, water for long periods of time and do it less frequently. This will cause your roots in your plans to grow deeper and retain water for longer saving you time, money, and energy, and keeping your lawn look great.
The suggested amount of water needed for most lawns is about an inch every week. In order to measure this, place shallow containers all around your lawn from corner to corner and in the middle. This will not only tell you how much water has been dispersed, but how evenly it is being dispersed. Once the containers have an inch of water you can stop watering. You will find that some containers don’t have quite an inch. This means that the area of the lawn associated with that container needs more watering attention. If for whatever reason you cannot water your lawn every week, get lawn crystals for moisture. They will help to retain the water that the lawn is able to get.
You should be dividing your garden rows with trenches or canals to make sure that the water isn’t running off of your garden. In this case, you may not need to use something to measure the amount you watering, since you can plainly see how much is in the canal. Always use an organic fertilizer in your lawn and garden. For lawns, the grass will absorb more natural nutrients and they are environmentally safer than synthetics. Since you eat the food you are growing, you want to use only natural fertilizers so you don’t take harmful chemicals into your body.
Till your garden early in the spring, as soon as you can. Check carefully and remove any plant matter or rocks in order to get the most out of your garden, and aerate your lawn at least once a year making sure that the holes are about three inches deep. This way, your grass roots will be able to absorb air and other nutrients better, and also allows for overall circulation.
There is a wealth of knowledge to be had surrounding beautiful lawns and gardens. For more information you can easily search online, visit HGTV, your local nursery, or the book store and local libraries. You need do no more than what is prescribed in those books to achieve the lawn and garden of your dreams.
Dorthy Weatherbush is an avid gardener and is always looking for new ways to improve her lawn and garden. For holiday decorations she shops at Collections Etc. For her general gardening needs however, she shops at Gurneys.comAlthough she has never won Lawn or Garden of the Month in her neighborhood, she has come in 2nd place several years in a row.
