Spring is the best season to grow your plants and boost them. It is the prime time for flowering and preparing your seedlings for upcoming season.
Let’s prepare your spring garden for full bloom.
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Clean up your garden:
First and foremost step for spring garden is to clean up the space. Make spot for the new plants and remove old and unwanted ones. Hand weeding is the easiest and simplest way of cleaning your garden. Remove dead and diseased plants. Save seeds for next seasons. Gather the shed leaves and dump into a small area for compost.
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Prepare the soil:
After tiding up the garden, prepare your soil for new plantation and boosting the prior plants. This will energize the soil. If soil is compact, till it. Add organic matter and compost in soil to rejuvenate it. Leave it for few days so that added components mix well. This will increase the soil fertility and your plants grow vigor.
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Set up new garden beds:
In cleaned spaces build small beds for new seedling sowing. Raised beds are ideal for small gardens. You can use containers, pots and growing bags for more plants. Keep them in sunny spot where they receive maximum sunlight. This is how you can prepare your garden for new season.
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Fertilize the soil:
Fertilizers are boosters for your plants. Add organic matter to soil to enrich it with nutrients. Heavy feeding plants such as tomatoes, brinjal etc. needs large amount of fertilizers whereas small amount for fertilizers is required for light feeding plants such as lettuce, spinach etc.
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Know what seeds to sow:
Success rate of a plant growth depends on various factors such as temperature, humidity, sunlight requirements and others. Choose the plant according to the seasons. In summers, grow brinjal, chillies tomatoes etc. and in winters, grow cabbage, okra, lettuce etc. growing according to season will give fruitful results.
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Adding mulch:
Mulching is important for your garden. It locks the moisture in soil, avoid weeds growth and regulates soil temperature; later organic mulch is mixed in soil and decompose. Do not mulch until your seeds germinates it might bury them. Be careful about it.
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Keep the pest away:
Controlling pest is as important as weeds, so keep an eye on it. Use natural pest repellents for your plants and apply it occasionally to prevent pests from garden otherwise they will feast on your plants. Pest will hinder the growth of plants.
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Gather your gardening tools:
Gather all gardening tools such as scissors, cutter, shovel, spade, hose pipe and gardening knife. Perform all procedures through these tools this will make your gardening journey easy.
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Maintenance:
Gardening is a rewarding hobby. Taking care of plants results into fruitful harvest; but it requires little effort. Your garden requires regular water, weeding and harvesting and most important your little care and give you back in abundance.
Work hard and make your small garden magical.
