How to care for the garden in spring

Last Updated on July 14, 2020 by woodcutter

Spring weather changes. As temperatures begin to rise, the plants grows leaving behind the risk of frost. Begin to fill with leaves, buds and precious flowers. A sign shows that life returns to the garden. At this time, every gardener has to take extra care of their green space. So that pests and diseases do not appear a lot.

For this reason, we will show you how to take care of the garden in spring. Following these tips, your paradise will remain green: an incredible place to enjoy lush nature.

Tips for Care of Your Garden

Control wild herbs

After the rains, a beautiful and tidy garden can become a grassy jungle in a matter of a few weeks that looks greener. We (homeowner gardener) already know that the herbs themselves are harmless to the plants that form the garden. But since they have a much faster growth rate than those of plants, if they were not will-organized they would finally making problems. Looking the garden messy & clumsy too.

With this in mind, wild herbs must be removed from, at a minimum, the surroundings of ornamental plants. For the most beautiful place to be seen, it is highly recommended to remove them all, either with a hoe if it is a small garden, with a lawn mower if it is medium or it is large scale of yard.

Water more often

While it is true that the sun has not same intense as it will be in summer and that, therefore, the soil remains a little more humid than during that season. Plants when they resume growing need more water than during the winter. For this reason, it is necessary to irrigate more often avoiding that the earth ground dries. But when to do that?

The best time is in the afternoon, passing the central hours of the day. In this way, the risk of a “magnifying effect” is avoided, that is, the leaves are burned by the sun when the sun’s rays hit the water.

Fertilize your plants

If we want our plants to grow strong and healthy, we need to resume the subscriber schedule. During spring and summer the garden will require a series of subscriber. So that it can be seen and be healthy. In the nurseries and garden shops we will find a great variety of fertilizers, both organic and mineral. Depending on the plant in question that we want to pay, it will be more advisable to choose one or the other.

Thus, in regarding for human safety & considering environmental facts, we will provide them with organic fertilizers (compost, worm humus, manure, guano); But if they are functional nutrition we can introduce with mineral fertilizers, such as Azomite.

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Rejuvenate your green space by pruning

Pruning is a great tricks to rejuvenate some plants. The best time to prune in late winter-early spring.

We must look after to remove the dead branches, dry, weak and those that last year did not give flower or fruit. Also we should pinch (cut 2-3 pairs of leaves of each stem) the aromatic or other type of herbaceous in order to produce new buds and leaves to flourish more.

You do not have to forget to disinfect garden tools with alcohol of pharmacy as we use in our garden previously. After use, we must always clean them to avoid infection.

Have a happy spring