Home Improvement Tips: Guide To Plant, Maintain and Care for Your Garden

Before planting

Most people do not pay much attention to the floors with nature and the fate to compensate for the lack of art. However, after decades of research, it was shown that planting correctly can reduce the need to water, add fertilizer and pesticides, and, in turn, help the plants survive disease and other problems. Moreover, it depends on how you planted some plants live or die. Since planting trees and shrubs seem one of the most important challenges, we focus on those plants, with additional information on other plants.

Choose native plants

Take away the chemicals and plants that require much maintenance your garden can help you save time and money as well as being beneficial to the environment. Native plants are already adapted to your area and often require less water and care.

Visit the nearby nature reserves and botanical gardens to see what grows in your area, for example, is an area of forest with shadows or near water or in the sun. Use your camera phone to take pictures of what you like and Show it to the staff of local nurseries, where you will find several of these plants.

Personnel nurseries and botanical gardens is a good source of information about where buy native plants. You have also the Information Network Native Plants (Native Plant Information Network), where you can explore a vast database of plants, as well as articles about building gardens with native plants. Extension services also offer cooperative information according to your area.

Bring home

The first step is planting properly the tree, shrub or plant arrives safely from the nursery to your garden.

Some tips:

• Protect leaves onslaught of wind wrapping burlap or other protective material

• Raising plants from the base and not the trunk, especially in spring when the crust is delicate. This is extremely important in the case of plants with heavy root balls, as those are wrapped in burlap or larger containers of 15 gallons.

• Protect plants from sun and wind, if you are going to plant for one or two days. Cover the container or root ball with mulch if you are storing for several days, also make sure the root ball does not freeze or dry.

• Wrap trees and shrubs to avoid damage on the way home. Enrichment field Tamp the soil enriched-also says “amend the soil” – around the roots instead of replacing the land excavaste seems logical, although it may be more harmful than beneficial, because different soil textures enriched and ground instead create a layer moisture and the roots cannot penetrate.

There are two cases in which the land is not tamped:

1) The place where the land is so sandy that moisture does not form lumps, and

2) When stonemason assembles a full, rather than the soil around the root ball, since smoothing entire bed prevents soil layers are formed. If you choose to tamp the earth, do not overdo it. Uses a third of new land and two thirds of local soil when you plant bulbs, you must follow specific instructions to bring the plant and be sure to let loose soil below the bulb, so that roots can penetrate the soil.