Simple Tricks To Make Garden Maintenance A Breeze

Gardening can be a lot of work! This can lead to a lot of people deciding that they do not have time to garden. The good news is that once your garden is set up the maintenance part doesn’t have to be hard work. You’ll find some simple tricks below that can make garden maintenance a breeze. Try these tips to help make gardening easier and less time-consuming this year.

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Mulch – A Necessary Simple Trick For Garden Maintenance

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Mulch is your friend in the garden and serves many functions. It helps make it easier to care for your garden by keeping weeds at bay. A layer also helps in preventing pests from laying eggs in the soil at the roots of your plants. Mulch traps moisture to help keep your plants hydrated on hot summer days, which is especially important in drought areas. Additionally, it is also a great way to help your perennial plants survive the winter.

For the best results and the most economical option use layered mulch. A great way to do this is to lay straw or grass clippings down before placing your layer of decorative mulch. This will give you a thicker mulch for less or even free if using your grass clippings. If you are mulching a newly made in-ground garden bed you may want to add a layer of cardboard under your mulch to help add another weed barrier to your garden.

Automated Irrigation

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Automating your garden’s watering is one of the best things you can do to make garden maintenance easy. The best way to do this is with a drip irrigation system set on an automatic timer. A drip irrigation system will allow you to water at the root of your plants avoiding the leaves and other parts of the plant that are prone to mildew and rot issues.

To make it even easier to care for your garden you can opt to use a wifi enabled timer for your irrigation system so during heat waves you can give your plants extra water without having to go outside and manually turn the water on. In the same way you can turn off your watering system when it rains to save money on your water bill.

Bug Houses For The Environment – Earth Friendly Simple Tricks For Garden Maintenance

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Adding a bug house to your garden is a great way to help keep pests under control. By adding a bug house to your garden you are encouraging beneficial insects including pollinators and predators like parasitic wasps and ladybugs that help to control common garden pests. These will help prevent unwanted insects from taking over your garden.

Hummingbird Feeder

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Insects are not your only friend when it comes to pest control in the garden. While this is a bit more maintenance than other tools in your gardening arsenal for helping to protect your garden from insects  Hummingbirds need a large amount of protein to survive. To get this they eat small insects like aphids and ants. For the best results fill your bird feeder with a mixture of 1 cup after and 1/3 cup sugar rather than the red dye-filled mixes you can buy at the store. These dyes can be extremely harmful to hummingbirds. Change out your hummingbird feeder every 3-4 days to prevent fermentation that can also make hummingbirds sick and enjoy your healthy pest-free garden.

Companion Planting For More Abundance

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Companion planting is a great way to make caring for your garden easier. With companion planting, you’ll mix in plants that help to repel insects. Combining plants in a single area such as green beans and tomatoes that help fix the nitrogen in the soil. This will allow them both to thrive. Try planting marigolds around the perimeter of your garden and interplanting your garden so that multiplies of each plant are not close enough together to keep the plants from jumping between each other.

To get the most use of this gardening method take the time to research companion planting to plan how you wish to plant your beds. Some plants are compatible enough to fit more into your space like growing green beans on a trellis behind your tomatoes or growing salad greens in the same bed as your tomatoes in the spring allowing them to die off when the heat rolls in allowing the tomatoes to have the remaining space.

Square Foot Gardening – My Favorite Of The Simple Tricks For Garden Maintenance!

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Square foot gardening is one of the easiest simple tricks for garden maintenance. This gardening method involves planting several plants in a square foot and planting several square footbeds into one garden bed. I’ve done it often and have a DIY for building your own COVERED GARDEN BED. This makes use of companion planting with each square containing a different plant. Because you are planting several plants together they act as a living mulch! This helps to protect your plant’s roots from the hot sun, trapping in essential moisture. If you are vegetable gardening this is one of the best things you can do. It will increase the yield of your garden and as a result will provide your family with more food.

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