Want to start gardening but do not know how to start? Here are list of tips that will definitely make you an expert to gardening.
1. You have to know your USDA Hardiness Zone. This is a guide so you don’t plant trees, shrubs and perennials that won’t survive conditions in your area. You can also get a better idea of when to plant vegetables and fruits in your vicinity.
2. There are times when you think of buying chemical pesticide to overcome every situation in your garden – but before you do, think that stinky dust all over your clothes and subject your local groundwater to inevitable runoff – consider perhaps a more gentle approach can work. Perhaps the tools of industrial monocarp agriculture the hard core weed killers and pesticides are not appropriate to scale of your backyard. Try a more organic approach first.
3. You have to grow what you will eat and eat what you can grow. If your family are a veggie hater so be it, you might want to consider planting strawberries and raspberries.
4. Learn how long your growing season is – your last frost in spring and first frost in fall – in that way you start some plants inside or avoid growing them. (This may vary to the state you are in.)
5. The best approach to controlling weeds in your garden is hand-weeding and hoeing. You have to avoid deep hoeing or cultivating that can bring weed seeds to the soil’s surface. Weed early and often so weeds do not go to seed – use mulch to smother and prevent annual weeds.
When you learn to think like a plant, you can feel rays of the sun on your face and intuit how it will strike the leaves of your plants. You can just thrust your fingers on the ground and imagine how difficult it will be for the roots to find a patch through the particles of the soil – with that having said you will appreciate the amazing possibilities that exist in a single seed. The lists above are all basic and for sure will be a big help for you.
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