Top Gardening Tips 2 - Learn How to Do Flower and Lawn Gardening to Maintain a Blossoming Garden

Here are my own gardening experiences. Flowers and plants are just like any relationships in your life; if you pay special attention, care and put efforts to them they will reward you handsomely.

1. Feed plant food: give plant food once in every one or two weeks from spring to summer,; this is very important. Flowers are like humans, they need nutrition to grow and produce buds during the flowering season. If you do this they tend to flower longer, bigger with more flowers and that helps keep your garden more colourful. I use Miracle-Grow from B&Q and the results are very good. Please make sure that you feed different plant the right food, for example - acid lovers such as Hydrangea.

2. Spray: If the leaves become yellow and full of holes, you need to buy some spray to kill the bugs and other insects. Yellow bugs loves lilies and they love to make lots of holes on your lily's leaves.

3. I use various treatments to kill slugs, snails and ants: Sprinkle some slug pellets or ant-killing tablets or power around your plant to keep them away from your flowers and plants. Slugs especially like Dahlia type plants and ants love Peony buds. Ant also like to farm Aphids, keeping away the bugs predators and helping them to spread.

4. Take off any dead flowers and leaves: when the flowers are finished, cut them off, this helps new buds to come out and saves the nutrition for new ones.

5. For Peonies and lilies: In late autumn cut off all the leaves when they are dry and dying and only leave the roots. It will help the roots come back strongly next spring.

6. Flower baskets and pots: they need more care than garden plants,as the nutrition from the basket soil is limited. You need to water them at least once a day and need to take off the dead buds regularly. In very hot weather you must increase the watering to stop them drying out. You can buy special soils that better at retaining moisture.

7. Lawns: To have a green, thick and weed-free lawn, you need to buy Lawn Feeder that kills weeds and gives the lawn the nutrition it needs to grow.

* Spread evenly out just before any rain, so it can be very well soaked with rain. Repeat this 4- 5 times a year from spring to summer and you will have a fabulous and lovely lawn.

* Make sure you buy quite good quality, once we bought both a cheap one and an expensive one from B&Q, we tested the cheap product on one half of the lawn and the expensive one on the other half, and interestingly we had very different results. Where the expensive lawn feeder was spread had longer,thicker grass and a healthier looking lawn compared to the patchy and shorter lawn where the cheap product was spread.

* Make sure you cut your grass regularly to have a thicker lawn. When it's a hot summer's day make sure not to cut it too short, unless you have a water feeder, otherwise the roots will get burnt. Make sure not to cut it too short during the winter time, in case frost kills the roots.

It sounds like a lot of work, but it will spread out over the year and you won't feel that it's very much work when you see the results of your labour. If you love gardening it's an enjoyment to work in the garden admiring your beautiful flowers and breathing fresh air. Remember with your care and attention you will be rewarded with a longer lasting, more glamorous garden that helps you to improve your living environment, health and quality of life.

Shannon Pentony

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Gardening tips - how to make a green lawn

These instructions on how to get a green lawn and other gardening advice depends where in the world you live, what you have climate, temperature, Sun, rain, snow and so on. The recommendations is for the northern part of the world such as Canada, United States, Europe, etc., where it "real" winter, spring, summer and autumn. Which product to use in your part of the world to your garden shop talk.

Spring

If you have Moss in your lawn, you never use a machine to rid the MOSS because more Moss in your lawn threatens you in the following year. Instead, you can a pesticide. You can buy environmentally friendly products. And it is of course possible to use some other water-soluble iron sulfate. If the MOSS dead is it series status way by itself and is gone in a few weeks.

Fertilizing - if Moss is you it is because your lawn have received insufficient nutrition and therefore regularly fertilize important is. At temperatures above 50 F (10 C) distributed a lawn fertilizer. There grow fertilizer for all seasons and find out how often and how much you should use on your lawn. It is often better to use a little expensive product. Often, you do not need to fertilize the often with a good product.

Weed - if you are an it weed - products that take care of itself deeply rooted weed and at the same time to the lawn and fertilize. Also you can find environmentally friendly products in your country. Use of pesticides on your lawn when the temperature is consistently over 60 F (15-16 ° C). The weeds will disappear after about a month and get your lawn green and free from weeds. The treatment should take place often when the weeds in good growth and the grass is dry and wet soil. Please contact your garden shop products and their use correctly.

Weed - before and after

Once the weeds, after 4-5 weeks have died, you should mix seeds grass and "lawn dress" (bottom). From the "ground seed mix" of your whole lawn rake. There will be your lawn more is even more food and the grass green, thicker and more. You will see results after about 2 weeks. Do not worry you across the floor. Both the old and new grass takes over. Again, ask your garden shop on this earth products. You can also a vertical cutter before you the grass seed and soil spread. The air will love their lawns. If it is essential to ensure that water you your lawn. A real "Soak the root" (CA. 30 mm).

Summer

Once again distributed a lawn fertilizer. Water lawn if necessary (CA. 30 mm). The lawn should be cut at least once a week during the growing season. Cut not more than a third of the amount at a time. The grass is yellow or Brown, if you cut it immediately short.

A grass collector always use if you cut your lawn. Let not the cut-outs to more nutrients in the soil. If you all snippets throughout the season can be on your lawn there only more problems like weeds in the following year you. Experts often say that the grass should be maintained if you cut your lawn because it fertilizes the lawn. Listen to them. Most weeds disappear with regular mowing and where collect the grass and weeds. Distribution of weeds in your lawn is almost not possible, and in this program when you use a collector we already a lawn fertilizer product use so that we no longer need.

Edge-your lawn

In May - June, it is also time to get your lawn with a lawn edger or a shovel edge. It improves the beauty of your lawn or garden. It is good value the time and effort. Edge-your lawn, as many times as you but over two times in the summer or want, that the growing season is often enough.

Autumn

Using a MOSS product again / water soluble iron sulfate on your lawn. This is when you have new Moss. You will receive some protection against fungal diseases. Type lawn "Autumn fertiliser". (See store products in your garden). This will make your lawn stronger and will manage much in winter better.Lime every year two important calcium and magnesium by heavy autumn and winter rain washed away replace, you should. Many types of lime can be used to correct this situation. You can lime in the spring or autumn. It is important that you correctly collect your lawn in the autumn. The winter / snow comes the lawn try as clean as possible.

If you follow this program, you will be amazed as your lawn in August/September and look in the next year is.

Year two – maintain your lawn

Follow the same program again. But you can skip course the MOSS and weed products, if there is no Moss or weeds in your lawn. Also you have to mix grass seed and soil and collect them out on your lawn every year but we certainly recommend green and beautiful have keep the determination (and strength) your lawn.

Read more about how to make a green lawn. You will find other gardening advice by professionals. Online head to find out more today.

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