Effective Gardens Maintenance Can Save Time

Gardens maintenance can quickly become a tiresome and frustrating task if you are doing it wrong. Your garden will tell you what needs to be done as the seasons change.

Autumn leaves falling create a beautiful carpet of color and should rather be enjoyed than raked every day. Let the tree finish the drop of leaves before you take action. Instead of working leaves into bags for disposal, simply rake them into your flower beds where they will form a blanket of protection against the frosty winter conditions that will soon threaten to kill your plants.

Roses can be pruned very precisely wasting hours of time. A quick and very efficient way of doing this job is to use a simple measure stick of 90 centimeters long. Simply push it down into the rose bed to a depth of approximately ten centimeters and cut your roses at the top level of the stick. From the cut off bushes you can now quickly make cuttings if you wish, or simply shred and scatter the cuttings over the rose beds. This layer will protect the roses from frost killing their roots.

Mowing the lawn at the inappropriate time of the month will see you doing this task every 5 days. Find a moon garden calendar and mow the lawn on days marked for stimulating growth if you need the grass to grow more, or choose a day marked as reduce growing. By doing this you can actually reduce the dreaded lawn mowing to twice a month.

Instead of spending your precious weekends on garden maintenance, rather do a small bit of work every day. Have a walkabout in your garden and remove all the dead flowers as you go along. Simply pull up any weeds you see on your way to work or whenever you walk in the garden. Refrain from letting the garden get out of hand by letting small jobs accumulate into massive projects.

A small amount of maintenance will see you enjoy a beautiful garden all year long.

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