Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Three Gardening Suggestions To Bear In Mind

By Cornelius Vanhuesen Xavier


Planting your own garden should be enjoyable and certainly shouldn't be stressful. This should be an enjoyable pass time so we are going to look at some ways to eliminate the stress so you enjoy gardening more.

When you are actually planning your garden out you should think about how your children will mix with it. Just as an example, planting some perennials next to a path or at the edge of a flower bed could see them getting trampled on. Likewise, it might be nice to have a garden bed positioned in the center of your lawn, however the plants will not be safe if your kids play there a lot. You want to be flexible, so positioning the delicate plants at the back is a good idea and also creating some sort of shield out of a fence would be wise. Letting your children get involved with your gardening project is a great idea. If they are involved they'll most likely take more care and be more attentive.

Watering: When watering your plants you must get the quantities right for your garden as it is bad for the plants health if you over or under water them. All you need to do is look at your plants to tell the level of water they will need. You can see an under watered plant easily because the buds and petals are the first to fall off as they require the most water. Then the leaves will shrivel, the stem will wilt and the roots will go limp, in that order. But you do not want to over water either as this is just as bad, as it stops oxygen from getting to the roots.

Soil that is too wet is also the perfect environment from some diseases like mildew and blight to develop so it is wise to avoid over watering your plants.

The results obtained from gardening are worth the common sense, basic principals followed, and the effort put into it.

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