5 Tips For Home Gardens

Improving Home Gardens with Tips

You can bet that most gardeners are trying a couple of new ideas each year to improve garden yields from vegetables or to get the biggest and brightest flowers ever. Gardening is often built upon trial and error and that is why it is so neat that gardeners exchange tips with one another. You can also learn some new tips about home gardens that may help you with a question or a problem.

 

 

 

 

 

Step 1

There is a secret to having the very best looking flower garden on the block. The secret to tons of blooms is called deadheading. The two advantages to deadheading home gardens is that it cleans up your flower garden and keeps it looking nice, as well as increasing the number of blooms.

When plants produce flowers they are going through a reproduction cycle of making seeds for new plants in the future. The seed packets that you purchase at the store are the seeds collected from dried flower heads. You can collect flower heads yourself, let them dry and harvest the seeds for next year in home gardens. Clip flower blossoms that are spent (old and shriveling) off the flowers. This kind of fools the flower into believing that it has not completed its reproduction cycle and must put on additional blossoms. The result is a whole new round of blossoms. This works for the majority of flowers and you can continue clipping dead blossoms all spring and summer to create new flowers.

Step 2

If you live in deer country, there is a good chance you are having problems with deer getting into your home gardens. Deer will forage for food wherever they can and of course that includes home gardens. Hopefully, there is a tip or trick here that you have not tried and may work for you. Installing an eight foot fence around the home garden usually keeps out most deer. The height is the key because they can really jump high when they are hungry. Another option is installing an electric fence, which works well, but can be costly.

Step 3

Some gardeners like the idea of using distractions to attract the deer to a different area of the property and away from home gardens. This is an interesting theory and quite often it does work. Place a salt lick in another area or plant some of their favorite food away from your main garden such as broccoli, berries, beans or tea roses.

Step 4

Tips for transplanting annuals and perennials are always welcome to gardeners with home gardens. Always till the soil well, adding plenty of peat moss if you have it or homemade compost. Good drainage is critical for many perennials and annuals. Mulching helps new transplants stay cooler in the summer, conserve water, keeps soil moist and even helps to control weeds. Always transplant on cooler and cloudy days if possible.

Step 5

Using natural deterrents works for some deer. Some experienced gardeners seem to think spraying the urine of natural deer predators does the trick. You can buy urine from gardening centers or order it from websites online. Reportedly, bobcat and coyote urine sprayed around the perimeter of home gardens works well.

 

Tips

Avoid splattering water on rose leaves and slow water once or twice per week in home gardens. Purchase nematodes at garden centers to get rid of slugs and snails. Buy containers of ladybugs and place them on roses to eat aphids.

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