How to Keep Your Garden Clean
An important part of gardening includes making the effort to keep it clean and tidy. If you want your garden to be beautiful, you must include cleaning in your weekly gardening regime. Below are a few tips on how you can keep your outside space looking clean, tidy and in full bloom.
Throw away trash
The first step in keeping your outside space clean is the most obvious step. To keep it beautiful, you must throw away the trash. Whether it bags from fertilizer or old broken flower pots make sure they make it to the trash. Don’t let trash ruin the visual appeal of your lawn or flower beds.
Start a compost pile
Many gardens are full of old plants, leaves, stems, etc. that are pulled from the earth or fall from the trees. This can quickly bring down the visual appeal of your exterior. For this problem, begin a compost pile in another area of the yard. When you trim or weed, place the excess in the compost pile. This will help keep them away from your garden and also provide you with healthy soil during the next planting season. Fruit, vegetables, stems, leave, etc can all go into the compost pile. Become an avid composter for your garden’s sake.
Weeding
Weeding is an important part of maintaining a healthy garden. It also helps you keep a beautiful garden. Choose to weed your garden on a weekly basis to make sure the weeds don’t grow enough overtake your garden. This will help your garden grow better and also keep it beautiful. An added advantage is that you get great exercise weeding!
Get rid of dying plants
If you have made an effort to save the plant but you just can’t seem to keep it alive, it may be time to pull the plant. Don’t let dying plants take away from the beauty of your garden. A clean garden is one with healthy plants. Diseased plants will never produce to their fullest potential. Get rid of them as soon as you suspect there is a problem.
Keeping your garden clean is important. This is especially true if your garden’s main purpose is visual or curb appeal. There are several things that you can do to help keep your garden clean. Use the list above to help you get started with the cleaning process. You should also pay regular visits to your local garden centre, where you will find a wealth of help and advice on gardening and garden maintenance. What steps will you take to ensure that your garden stays clean and healthy?
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