Tuesday, August 30, 2011

For A Beautiful Backyard Garden Take This Guidance

By Cornelius Vanhuesen Xavier


Plants are sensitive, which is why the success of a garden is as much about the plants as it is about your knowledge. To have a garden that is enjoyed by everyone you need to know how to care for your garden when you are planning it out.

Your Plants Need to Breathe: Air is often overlooked when considering the necessities of plants. The atmosphere has a lot of air in though, so it really doesn't matter, does it not? Wrong. Plants need to breathe through their roots as much as their foliage, which means that soil shouldn't be waterlogged since it will mean that the roots can't extract the underground oxygen and will end up rotting. To ensure this situation never occurs you can make sure the soil doesn't get compacted. To put it simply, if it's wet don't walk or dig it up. The looser the soil, the more oxygen it will contain. Maintaining a good level of underground oxygen can be achieved by simply adding some organic matter, such as dense clay soil, to the soil. Also, make sure your garden has adequate drainage and never crowd your plants too close together, especially if they are likely to suffer from mildew or similar diseases.

The next tip is to create your own herb garden: This is a very good thing to do especially next to vegetables; people do this because the herbs deter lots of insects away from your vegetables. You could also put the herb garden on its own as this will allow you to have a wide range of herbs. Herbs should be treated the same as vegetables and therefore should also be planted after all the frost has gone.

You should do this because herbs do not like the cold weather. Herbs require minimum effort and this is why they are good and easy to grow. Also the fresher the herb the nicer it is. To use them as fresh as possible you want to plant your own herbs.

To get the best garden it is a matter of knowing what works best together and what conditions everything prefers. You only need to know about your garden to care for it easily.

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