Guidelines For Summer Gardening

By Frank Froggatt

There's a lot of factors that go into planning together with planting a summertime garden. Numerous people acquire into building a summer garden without realizing the amount of work that it takes to keep it maintained throughout the summer months and into the coming fall months as well. If you truly wish for your garden to stay beautiful throughout these long summer months and the cold of the fall, then there are some things that absolutely must be done in order for it to be so.

The first thing that you must do is to create a calendar that will help you to outline a time frame and a maintenance routine that you can follow throughout the season as is allowed by the weather. You need to try and make sure that you allow for weather situation that will not allow for you to be out in it doing the required maintenance like to much rain or too much sun for comfort. If you have your jobs listed and written down in an area that is out in the open, then it is a fact that you will be more likely to get them done as you will think about them whenever you see the list and it will begin to weigh on you if you don't. Better in sight and in mind than out of sight out of mind.

Some of the things that will need to be on this list will be weeding, mulching, watering, and fertilizing all according to the recommended specification of the plants that you have in your garden. Check for leaves that are turning yellow and any pruning that needs to occur on a weekly basis.All of the leaves that are dying need to be taken off as needed and all of the necessary pruning and weeding needs to be followed up on whenever you have a free minute or it becomes imperative for it to be done. If weeds are becoming a prevalent theme you may want to increase the amount of mulch being used in your gardening efforts.

In the areas that are between your lawn and garden, try and get the grass to look as uniform and neat as possible. You do not want to ignore the beauty of your garden because your lawn is looking shaggy and unkempt. You need to try and make some time for caring for your grass as well as your garden with the intentions of one not detracting from the appearance of the other.

Make sure that you cautiously study each plant that you have in your garden and are aware of any special needs that exist for one plant over another. Most plants have diverse requirements than other plants, so knowing what their specific needs are will allow you to give the plant that needs extra water the extra water and the plants that need the extra shade can be given the extra shade as you will be aware of that need. This will help you to protect the investment of time and money that you already have invested.

Making sure that your garden is taken care of through the summer is a great way to make sure that any harvesting that is done in the fall will go a lot smoother than otherwise, and it will also give you the fore site to make plans which will help it through the winter. Whenever you are gardening, you need to learn from your experiences in taking care of it, that way when you plan it out for the next season you will know what works and what to avoid. Always take time to learn from both your successes and your summer gardening failures for the greatest possible results. Taking the experience that you gain from gardening each year will help you to know how big of a garden you can actually feel comfortable with maintaining and help you to decide on the size of the next garden you plant. - 31813

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