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- How to maintain your garden beds - tips and tricks
- Maintain the vegetable patch
- Create a bed easy to clean
- General care tips for beds
- The most important care measures in the near future:
- Tips
Watering is an important care measure for every garden bed
How to maintain your garden beds - tips and tricks
Not every hobby gardener has much time left for gardening. Nevertheless, you do not have to do without your own garden, because you can also make many beds easy to care for and also make the work easier with a few tricks.
Maintain the vegetable patch
Vegetable beds often need extra care. After sowing or planting, ensure sufficient moisture to germinate or grow and keep the bed weed-free. Daily watering is just as important here as regular weeding.
Create a bed easy to clean
A bed is then particularly easy to care for, if the plants were selected according to the existing conditions, so sun-hungry plants on a sunny bed and shade-loving plants in the shade. With ground cover and / or a layer of bark mulch you prevent soil erosion and keep the moisture better in the soil. Some plants need a regular pruning, others do not. This should also be considered in the selection.
General care tips for beds
One might think that it does not matter when and how plants are watered, the main thing is that they get enough water. However, this is not the case. Many plants do not tolerate water on their leaves very well. They get ugly spots or even suffer from leaf rot. Therefore always pour down to the roots and not just the whole plant from above.
In addition, pouring is recommended in the morning and / or evening hours, not in the blazing midday heat. This will prevent burns from water droplets on the leaves. Fertilize your plants as much as necessary, but at the same time as little as possible. Over-fertilization can cause more damage than is often suspected. Weed removal not only by plucking but also by careful and careful hacking.
The most important care measures in the near future:
Tips
If you do not have a lot of time for gardening, then you should plant some easy-care beds instead of giving up your own garden.