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A bit late for this tip for this year – but in the fall, when everyone puts their bags of leaves out to the curb – go “Leaf Rustling”! I haul ‘em all back, and pile them onto my garden for the chill. 1 to 2 feet high – then it all decomposes down to about 6 inches by spring.
The density of the cover keeps the weed from sprouting, and saves me a LOT of work in that department. Then I just pull some of the mulch aside, and plant my plants when the time comes. The leaves will ultimately become part of the soil.
The no work/weed free garden…with soil that improves seemingly on its own, every year! (and did I bring up free?)
Hire a gardener
I do not know or care much about a flower garden but I get excited about having another vegetable garden. Just like children and pets, I nuture a vegetable garden. The taste of vegetables from the garden will make you want to initiation your own.
I don’t really have a garden, but I have a porch with nice planters.
I have two huge ones on the sides at the end of the walking trail to the porch. In each one there is a “sky pencil” plant in the back-middle area of these round planters.
Sky Pencils grow very slow and they stay the same fantastic and classy columnar shape for many years. Meanwhile, you can plant any kind of colorful annual plants at the underside of the Sky Pencil. Right now I have pansies, and in the spring I will plant many other different small annuals.
You therefore will never have the hideous view of an empty pot in front of your house year-long!
Here is a link for lots of gardening tips.
Delight in! http://naturehills.com/gardening/tags/gardening+tips/garden+tips/default.aspx
Try: “Gardens for Beginners”
http://www.geocities.com/mastergardener2k
soil…. being paid the soil the best it can be is key to a fantastic garden…. whatever you have to do to get excellent soil is well value the work in the end… a soil test tells you where to initiation…. most soils need and do really well if given LOTS of compost…. it’s wonderful material!!..
tools… have what you need…. digging is so much simpler if you have the right tools…. my hubby’s helping son with a bed at son’s new house… they had a terrible time digging in the rocky soil of a new build…. but once they got their hands on my maddock/pick, the work went so much nearer!!…. and that goes for any of the garden tools…. from wagons to pruners… get the best you can and take excellent care of them!!….
fill up…. after our deficiency, lots of us know that there’s fill up to be had in many places that we didn’t reckon about before…. I will save and store fill up often now… from rain barrels to soda bottles… fill up is a huge deal…. more soaker hoses and drip irrigation systems are on the list for this year…
mulches…. this is one of the best equipment you can do for your garden, be it for flowers or for foods….. mulch inhibits weeds, cools the soil in the hot sun and keeps soil temperatures more even during spring’s ahead of schedule warm days…. it saves on watering, keeps the soil moist with what fill up it has already…. choose your mulch according to what you need it to do…. be sweet?… keep the weeds off the tomatoes?… hold up the strawberries?…. keep the weeds out of the flowers?…. each mulch we typically use has a distinct wits….. newspaper stops weeds …. landscape fabric lets air and fill up thru…. pine needles lets air thru…. pine bark is slow to decompose and keeps cats out sweet excellent…. hardwood looks special…. colored mulches have their place I guess, but they’re too much for this ancient gal… and rubber mulch?.. mmm… is your garden bed a playground for kiddies???…. straw over paper is fantastic in the veggies…. shredded paper is, too…
research EVERYTHING…. get the names of your plants and look them up… this computer will tell you LOADS of material about plants…. don’t ever BUY a plant you don’t get a tag and a name with….. (except you recognise it already)…. when you buy, pull that plant OUT of the pot and check the roots… are they white and healthy looking or black and soggy rot?…. do they spread out or go around the pot again and again?…. do they look huge enuff to support the top of the plant?… then place it back in the pot!!…. don’t buy a sickly looking plant except you’re prepared to isolate it from everything else till it’s ‘better’……
buy your plants from a neighbor hood plant sales outlet or grower…. someone in your area…. online shipping is nice but not all plants grown in PA can live thru summer in NC…. see?….
initiation small and expand as your knowledge base expands…. otherwise you get overwhelmed and give up too soon…. plot your garden with expansion in mind for shortly…. I started with one corner of the back fence…. now the only spot that’s NOT a part of the garden is the septic field!!….
whatever else I’d tell you isn’t enuff except you like gardening… while it’s fun, it’s wonderful… but when it’s no longer fun, but a job, then you have too much and must cut back…. age and health sometimes choose when you have to do that…..
pleased gardening!!