Every gardener desires healthy and thriving plants. A healthy garden will produce abundant fruits, dark green veggies, and beautiful flowering plants.
However, cultivating a healthy garden requires more than wishing for one. You need to know the right way to handle your soil, how to choose and arrange the plants, maintain moisture, and prevent disease.
This guide offers practical tips to keep your garden plants healthy throughout the year.
1. Know Your Soil Quality
First, you need to check what type of soil has nature endowed your yard with? If you have sandy soil or clay, and you want to plant a lot of vegetables or fruit trees, you will need to improve on its composition and quality.
Adding manure, animal dung or a layer of rich loamy soil will provide more nutrients required for your vegetables to flourish.
2. Water Plants Properly
Each plant needs water to thrive. But your plants will require different amounts of water depending on the year’s season.
To know the amount of water a plant needs, study its leaves. If they are closed or folding, it means they need more water. On the other hand, plants with yellow leaves probably have too much water.
To reduce water loss in the soil, learn how to add mulch to your soil. Use dry grass cuttings and leaves to cover the soil around your plants to reduce soil dryness.
A good idea for watering plants is to give them water twice daily. Water the roots as well as the leaves. Watering the leaves removes dust, aids photosynthesis, and boosts the production of oxygen.
3. Select the Right Plants
Each plant thrives well in a particular climate or zone. For example, putting plants that love shaded areas on an exposed patch will cause the plant to dry up and die quickly.
You can discover how to select suitable garden plants by visiting your neighbourhood garden centre or botanist. Ask for a detailed list of plants that will thrive in your location.
4. Fertilize the Soil
Soil quality does not stay the same. As plants take out nutrients from the soil, you need to replace them. Otherwise, your plants will start to show signs of stunted growth and poor fruiting.
You have different options for fertilizing the soil. One is to use synthetic fertilizer to supply the nutrients for each plant group. Another method is to keep the soil rich by adding animal waste or droppings.
A good example of potent animal waste is rabbit excreta. The urine and feces from this cute animal are nutrient dense. Apply them to the base of your plants to produce a significant boost in fruit yield.
To obtain good results, use these tips to make a plan to fertilize your garden.
* Fertilize once every month using a quick-release fertilizer
* Improve soil content once every three months using a slow-release fertilizer.
* Use a liquid soil improver to boost soil nutrients once every two weeks.
5. Space Out Your Plants
A well-spaced garden looks attractive. It is also easier to maintain. Start by creating a list of the plants you want. Then mark out lots or rectangles for them on the ground.
Create raised beds for each plant group, and make adequate room to walk in between and tend to them. Then you will be able to observe your plants well and quickly spot any diseased ones.
An effective way to space your plants is to separate each row by 18 to 36 inches. For large plants like melons and cucumbers, you can double the spacing.
6. Eliminate Damaged Plants
Most plant diseases are contagious. They spread rapidly and can cause a lot of frustration and losses.
While controlling garden plant diseases, prevention is always the best strategy. But you still need to be vigilant to prevent the rapid spread of plant fungus and other parasites.
Take time each weekend to inspect under the leaves of plants for white patches, worms and other pests that can hide there. As soon as you see any signs of disease, pull out the plant and bury it in a remote part of your garden.
7. Manage Garden Waste
As you work on your garden, you will generate a considerable amount of dead leaves, stems, cuttings and other plant debris. Learn to use this waste to improve the health of your garden.
You should plan ahead for garden waste recycling. Here are some tips for using this waste:
* Make a compost heap to turn the waste into manure
* Shred the waste to quicken the decomposition
* Turn the waste into pellets
* Use some waste as mulch to moisten and protect your soil.
With adequate planning, you too can keep your garden plants healthy and happy. While it may not be a simple, overnight process, it is nevertheless something that every gardener can undertake. Keep the above suggestions in mind next time you head out into your garden and start applying these tips today.
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