Once David Hobson said, “I grow plants for many reasons; to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty, or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow”. Gardening is an emotion that fulfills life with happy experiences.
Spring is on its way and it is nature’s way of saying “let’s party”. Spring is a healthier season for plants, veggies and fruits to flourish and grow. To make Landscapes of Melbourne beautiful and flourishing in 2020, your backyards, front-yards and gardens need some advancements and precautions to take care of. Following are five different ways from which you can easily make your beautiful garden grow healthy;
1. Fertile Soil
First and most important way to make your garden healthy is planting in fertile soil. Sometimes people use clay instead of soil or soil which includes too much clay, and end up destroying their plants, fruits and vegetables. Because clay gets hard over a period of time which is not the best place for your plants to grow. You need to either use fertile soil or use garden trowel for clay breaking up and make it soft. Moreover, use different gardening tools like trowel, gloves, spade, fork and shovel to enhance productivity.
2. Enough Space for Growth
If you’re planning to plant some vegetables, ornamentals or fruits in your garden, you have to give them proper space to grow. If you have placed seeds very closely, they’ll not grow properly. The standard measurements for plants to be apart from each other is minimum 18 inches and maximum 30 inches. Every root, every leaf and every fruit/ vegetable needs its own space to expand and get proper nutrients, water and sunlight.
3. Choosing the Right Seed at Right Time
If you’re planning to grow your own veggies and herbs for its purity and non-toxicity, then choosing the right seed is where it all starts from. There are thousands of seeds in the world, but every plant, every seed grows in a specific climate and season. You can’t plant onions and garlic (winter vegetables) in the summer season, because they need low temperatures to grow. So, you need to choose winter plants and fruits for the winter season and summer plants and vegetables/ fruits for summer season. Indigo flower plants grow perfectly in monsoon or rainy season.
4. Nitrogen Dressing & Use of Fungicides
Nitrogen has the greatest influence of growth of veggies and ornamentals. Nitrogen affects root growth and stimulates the absorption of cations within the plants. To make your plants healthy inside out, give them nitrogen dressing regularly. When the plant is at the initial stage, the nitrogen dressing is done with a small amount and it is increased as the plant starts growing with the season. The trickle irrigation system is used to apply a small amount of nitrogen but needs more frequent applications on a weekly and daily basis.
There are two types of nitrogen dressing; top dressing & side dressing. Topdressing with urea and not gets rain for a couple of weeks and corn starts looking pretty rough and nitrogen starts volatilizing. Side dressing it and put it under the ground, you still need rain to flush it out to the plants and get good uptake, but you aren’t losing it with it underground. Topdressing is fast and easy with a lot more weather risk. While side dressing is a lot slower and more expensive equipment, but a lot less risk to the plants and losing product.
Plants and Vegetables not often but are endangered to be attacked by fungus if the soil gets extra moist and watery. To prevent your garden from fungus attack use fungicides for better results and healthier garden.
5. Protect Your Plants from Slugs
Slugs are mollusks with very soft bodies. They’re mostly found in humid and moist places to damage your plants and vegetables. They usually peak out at night and tend to eat your leaves and fruits. You can protect your fruits by doing some important home remedies that work best for slugs and snails;
- Use cornmeal in a dry jar and place it near your plants, slugs will eat cornmeal and it will ultimately kill them by expanding inside them.
- Use moist wooden planks or pots, because slugs love to hide in moist areas. In the morning remove the plank and kill them.
- The best way to hunt individual slug is to call all of your friends and search your garden for slug hunting, you can even call it a “Slug Hunting Party”. Use a torch to see slugs and pile them inside your basket and kill them.
- Or keep your garden mostly dry, especially at night time, dry areas kill slug and snails. It will take time but it’s the best way to keep your beautiful garden out of sight of slugs and snails.
About the Author:
Umair Hamza is a veteran content writer with more than 5 years of experience in different niches like Business, IT, Health, Home Improvements & Product Reviews who enjoys sharing the knowledge & tips he’s picked up from extensive research and readings.