Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Finding The Right Plants For Your Outside Garden

By Ben Miller


Maybe you have been excited about having a new garden when you first bought your property. At this time you went to the closest store that carried plants and flowers and bought whatever you thought were attractive. You could have planted them and tried to take care of them but the plants or flowers have either stopped thriving or dried up and died. The explanation why you couldn't succeed is you just didn't know what soil to use for what plant. Below you'll discover a few tips on the subject of planting a new garden.

First off, you have to know what kind of soil you have now. You will find soil types that tend to be always moist and others that tend to be dry. The process the soil is able to absorb water determines if it will dry up quickly or not. If your soil dries up quickly right after a rain, you would want to get plants that do not require a lot of moisture to survive. When the soil in your backyard garden stays wet for a long time after a rain, then you probably want plants that can handle wet soil and not mold up. This is merely the first step in choosing the best plants.

The next thing to check out is definitely the amount of natural light your garden gets each day. There are plants designed to flourish effectively in direct sunlight. Right at the very same time, you will have plants that may simply shrivel up if there is too much sunlight. The same goes for shady gardens, meaning that gardens which don't get a great deal of sunlight but are in shady areas of your property. So when deciding on your plants, make sure that they can also handle the amount of sunlight your garden receives.

Something else to think about is making sure that the vegetation is not too close together. When plants are too close together, they'll be fighting for nutrients and water. If you don't take note of this, your plants could end up dying. Therefore, you should make sure that the plants are about 1 and 1/2 feet to 2 feet clear of each other. In order to have sizeable plants in your back garden, you should have more space between plants as well.

By doing these simple tips, you have no problems growing a healthy and beautiful garden. You will also end up spending a lot of time enjoying your garden as opposed to keeping it alive. Keep in mind that your garden is to be looked at and appreciated instead of something that needs to taken care of perpetually.




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