7 simple garden maintenance tasks to help your garden thrive
Garden maintenance involves various tasks to keep your garden healthy and attractive. These tasks generally include:
- Weeding: Regularly remove weeds to prevent them from competing with your plants for nutrients and water. In case of organic vegetable garden do not use herbicides to control weeds in your garden.
- Pruning and Trimming: Cut back dead or overgrown branches to encourage healthy growth and maintain the shape of shrubs and trees.
- Watering: Ensure plants receive adequate water, either through rainfall or irrigation systems.
- Fertilizing: Apply fertilizers to provide essential nutrients for plant growth. Depending on the type of plant species you are growing use the right amount of fertilizer.
5…Mulching: Add mulch to retain soil moisture, suppress weeds, and regulate soil temperature. - Pest and Disease Control: Monitor for and manage pests and diseases using appropriate methods. Insecticides should be used with precautions.
- Soil Management: your garden soil degrades over time and need to be replaced with nutrient rich soil. Test and amend soil as needed to maintain optimal growing conditions.