Introduction
For home garden lovers, there are a variety of tips for improving your garden. The best place to start is right at the front gate. You can plant flowers of different colors along the lane to decorate it and to give a welcoming sight to your visitors. Visitors will always stop to marvel at a well tended, spectacular yard.
Step 1
You must also keep your lawn neatly trimmed and green. Avoid pouring waste water from washing on the loans so that it doesn't get damp and sticky. Also, you should never leave grass clippings lying around after mowing the lawn. If possible, bag and dispose of them or simply rake them away. Their absence wills the lawn shiny and green. The best interval to mow your lawn is after three weeks.
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Keeping a vegetable garden is a good idea for a home garden. Here, you can employ the method of companion planting. This refers to planting specific plants in close proximity to one another because one can benefit the other. An example of this is planting marigolds in and around a vegetable garden. Marigolds help control aphids as they naturally repel aphids. Secondly, you can also plant beans next to a vegetable garden in nitrogen deficient soils. Beans have root nodules that help fix nitrogen into the soil.
Step 3
In a home garden, control of weeds is vital. One way of controlling weeds is to thoroughly inspect incoming plants for hijacking weeds. Plants can pick up weeds from the nursery.
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Introducing certain species of insects into the home garden is also one way of adding a touch of glamour to your home garden. Butterflies, for example, can make your yard look colorful. You can purpose to attract butterflies to your yard by planting brightly colored flowers with sweet scents. One fascinating thing about butterflies is that they can migrate from miles and miles away.
Step 5
Flowers bring life and cheer to a home garden. Rose flowers, for example, are more appealing as they come in a variety of colors from white to pink to yellow to orange and red. Rose flowers should be pruned just before the plant breaks dormancy after spring's final frost. Old roses however should be pruned after blooming. You should invest in high quality shears with both blades curved.
Tips
Another way to introduce uniqueness to your home garden is by introducing water fountains to your front yard. A solar fountain, for instance, adds a comforting ambience to your yard. The sound of water creates a cheerful mood. You can lace up a solar fountain on a concrete or pedestal. Broken pots can also be embedded together using concrete mortar to create an artificial water fountain.
A home garden, in essence, calls for creativity. Lack of space, for example, should not be a reason to prevent you from growing vegetables. You can grow potted plants. When growing potted vegetables in the home garden, it is essential to choose bush or dwarf varieties which take up little space. These include carrots, radishes and lettuce. You can also grow tomatoes and peppers. You should avoid containers with narrow openings. Also, cheap plastic pots may deteriorate in UV sunlight. Terra cotta pots dry out rapidly. Glazed ceramic pots are excellent choices but require several drainage holes.
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