To be able to enjoy your beautiful garden all year round, it is important to keep it tidy. For example, make sure that weeds are regularly removed from between your plants, prune trees and shrubs in the autumn months, and mow the lawn once every few weeks, and so on. Today there are many different tools available that can help you maintain gardens. Think of an electric lawn mower, a weed burner, and so on. This way you have much less worked on this yourself. You can also opt for the help of a gardener to carry out a garden renovation.
Importance of proper maintenance of the garden
It is important for several reasons to maintain a garden regularly and properly. Appropriate maintenance to the garden, for example, prevents the garden from getting a messy and unkempt appearance. It is something that is regularly the case. This makes it much less enjoyable to sit outside in the summer or even in the fall. The weeds can also stunt other plants and shrubs in their growth. It can therefore happen that plants have to be replaced more often in a poorly maintained garden. This also applies to trees and shrubs, which are not pruned sufficiently and therefore grow less quickly.
Completely renovate a garden
In addition to the option to maintain a garden, you can have it completely renovated once every few years. For example, have a rotten veranda or fence replaced, opt for a completely new layout of the garden, and have a vegetable garden created, and so on. It may be wise to count on the help of a gardener for a garden renovation. A gardener can help you combine different plants and shrubs, so that something will bloom in the garden at any time of the year. The use of the Ecolawn soil spreader comes very handy in this case.
Soil nutrition
Not only can plants live on water, they also need nutrients. In a natural environment, dead plants and fallen leaves provide nutrition. The soil life worms, insects and bacteria consume compost and make nutrients such as fungi. Because the garden is a cultivated environment, we remove plant residues and leaves and thus the source of nutrients. Compost and food must therefore be added ‘artificially’. Plants prefer natural substances and natural quantities. A little bit every year is best. Healthy soil contains a rich soil life.
Improvement of soil life
The richer the soil life, the richer the garden is. Plants grow better on living soil. Make it attractive for worms and insects to live in your yard. Make sure there is food for the little critters. Regularly spread small amounts of compost. Sandy soils in particular have poor soil life by themselves.
Only mow the grass when it is dry. Preferably you mow the grass twice a week so that you can leave the grass clippings. The options do differ per grass type. With a rich soil life, the worms eat the grass residues. Always remove long grass after mowing. In a period of drought it is not advisable to cut the grass short.
Fertilize lawn
Nature prefers natural resources. Ecological fertilizers fit into the natural balance. Fertilize the lawn three times a year: in March-April, June and August-September.
Scarifying the lawn
Scarify the lawn annually in March. The purpose of scarifying is to remove moss and cut the underground roots. This keeps the top layer of the lawn airy.
