Better home and gardens tips

Planning and planting a garden is easier than thought, and cultivated fresh vegetables, herbs and flowers are great rewards that are worth a couple of weekends to get your garden in March. Below are some basic tips for use around your home and garden.

1. within begin to excavate a place in your yard for your garden, decide the amount of work you want to put in landscaping and large performance you expect from the harvest. If you just start breaking patio, you can end up with too garden and wasted space.

2. many will up your garden twice before planting. The first until you break and loosen hard soil to approximately 12 to 14 inches deep. The second should be to compost and fertilizer in the soil.

3. depending on the type of soil, the mixture of peat moss and compost material, possibly add nutrients and to help in the absorption of water and drainage.

4. keep the soil around the base of plants loose to aid in the absorption of water and nutrients.

5 irrigation allows further time periods any longer between waterings. If Sun and heat, water in the morning or early evening. There is less evaporation of the water in these times which allows water to penetrate into the soil.

6. for the care of the lawn, a deep watering is better than watering slightly several times. In normal summer conditions, lawns need about an inch of rain per week.

7. to help keep the water evaporates lawn, keep the grass cut about two inches, more or less. Not collect grass clippings will allow natural fertilizer to develop which adds nutrients to the soil of your lawn.

8. evaporation slow your garden, put a couple of inches of mulch on the soil surface.

Here are tips for basic home and garden can be used in most climates and regions of the country. Your professional and local cottage can also give useful tips, especially those that may particularly affect the area in which you live.