Planting a garden can be easier and more enjoyable with these gardening tips
Planting a garden, whether it is a vegetable plot or a flower bed, is an adventure where your creativity and patience are put to the test! You are directly responsible for the beautiful rose blooms or the delicious tomatoes that develop in this section of the land. Therefore to have the most success you need to determine where you plant!
The location of the garden should be determined by several factors: sunlight, soil conditions, water and wind exposure. Take notes on when this area of the yard is exposed to sunshine. This can determine which plants will thrive there. Test your soil to see if conditioners are needed to bring it up to optimum growing conditions. Pay attention to whether water collects in this section of the lawn. Some plants do well in soggy locations, but most need well-drained soil. Strong winds can dry out soil and plants, so try to locate the plot out of direct winds. Once you have determined where you will create your garden masterpiece you are ready to select plants!
Choose plants that will grow in your zone. Although you might have your heart set on a certain flower or vegetable, if your climate or garden location won’t support this choice, you will inevitably be disappointed. To avoid this, choose plants that are meant for your growing zone (ideally native plants), and disease-resistant and drought tolerant plants. Ask the employee at the nursery for assistance in selecting these. Be aware of the future size of each plant. A tree planted near a house will eventually provide shade, but it could also be a hazard during storms.
Plan out what flowering plants you would like for the seasons. Most perennials only bloom for a short time, so by mixing in some annuals there will be constant color in your garden. By having seasonal color you can change the look of your garden and create excitement and personality!
Now that you have your garden location selected and your plants purchased, you are ready to start digging! What tools are required to get things started? These include:
Rake: for seasonal cleanups and spreading/leveling soil
Trowel: for transplanting and weeding
Shovel: for digging, scooping, spreading compost and planting
Hoe: for chopping weeds and tilling soils
Pruners: for clipping flowers and pruning trees
Garden Gloves: for protecting your hands from blisters and dirt
Garden Hose: invest in a top-of-the-line hose that will resist kinking, is flexible and coils easily. Invest in high quality tools. They will last longer and are more durable than their cheaper counterparts.
Have fun starting a garden. Don’t try to create a masterpiece your first year-build up to it. Select a few choice plants that are more expensive. The rest can be less expensive, smaller complementary plants to round out your garden. Gardening is our nation’s number one leisure activity so go out and have a good time in your own piece of earth!
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Garden hose does not fit outside faucet, is there a thread adapter I need?Hello, I am trying to use the outdoor faucet of my town home. It seems that the thread on the faucet is not ght (garden hose thread). I measured the pitch of the faucet to be 1.25, is there an adapter I can get?
I am assuming this wouldn't be sold at a garden store because the thread size on this faucet is probably not commmon?
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You can move your established bushes in any month that has an R in it as long as the ground can be dug. Since lilacs establish their bloom buds the year before you will lose those blooms, and 3 years or longer you won't see any blooms. Just depends on how hard the transplant was to your bushes. I would say that fall is a better time than spring to move these plants based on experience, because they begin to prepare for the long rest period of winter and begin to go dormant. Spring they begin to put their energy into growth and can be shocked terribly. Hope this helps
Your dogs will be safe but not so for your garden. Dogs love to scratch and dig where the scent from your hands have been working.
Get a product such as "Scent Off" or other product that will discourage the animals were digging
The soil in that area will be slightly acid, so I suggest that you get a soil test kit at a local Farm and garden store and follow the directions to test your soil.
If that sounds like too much work (it is not) But if it sounds like too much work, then get several bags of lime and work them into the soil.
The problem is that lime is very slow acting so this years garden might be a mess.
But with adding lime spring and fall, you will change the PH for the more neutral number of 7 that most plants need to grow at.
Or maybe your efforts will pay off and your neighbor is an old grouch! But , just in case he is correct…….ADD lime!
make holes in the ground (drill them) as deep as is needed. You need to drill to see if the underground is stone or a very hard kind of soil. Maybe if that is the case you can break this layer in the hole. Put gravel or branches in the hole.
if the soil is very stoney you could try to dig a trench to collect the water and lead it to a low point.
You can't go wrong with an herb garden. The ones you mentioned do very well, and I have them in my garden. You might want to plant a bit of thyme as well. It's good for seasoning meats, and smells wonderful. You may also want to plant some dillweed and mint.
Well, you could just buy a square shovel, edge out the area you want to plant in and get rid of about 1 inch of weed/grass and soil. By throwing this grass and soil somewhere else (woods, compost etc) you can then add bags of good healthy soil on top.
Also, invest in a little "Quick Start" for your seeds. It's from Miracle Grow. IT's fantastic!
Be sure to pick an area that will get plenty of sunshine, areas with a lot of trees are not good. Check the soil, if it is claylike and sticks to your hands a lot it will need conditioners, peat moss and bark mulch work well. You will need to till the soil, you can probably rent a rototiller for $8-20 per hour from a local rental agency, talk a relative into it, or hire an odd job worker. Next you will pick your plants, plants with small seeds should be purchased from a nursery (tomatoes, peppers) You can plant some small seeded items early, such as carrots (they are the exception you can plant them in rows, you do not purchase them as plants). Get some cucumbers, squash, melons, pumpkins, and lots of tomatoes, these are all easy to grow. The best watering system is drip or soaker hoses, but a frogeye sprinkler will also work, be sure to water in the morning or night if using a sprinkler. Plant in rows, water regularly, and watch your vegetables grow, it's great fun. Don't slack on the weed pulling. Use mulch to cut down on the work.
If it's shaded most of the day but gets a little bit of the morning sun peas will do good. I got a real good crop with bush peas under those conditions.
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Cucumbers like full sunlight. Check out the next link for cucumber information. Male blossoms are supposed to drop females shouldn't drop. If they do the web site tells you how to fertilize them manually.
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/easygardening/cucumber/cucumber.html
Pumpkins will suffer if there isn't enough water. They sometimes need to be manually fertilized as well.
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