Tips For Making Maintaining Your Garden Easier
Gardening is a great way to get outside and enjoy the outdoors while enhancing the quality of produce available to you and your family. If not done smartly though, gardening can end up being hard work! Back pain and sore knees will be a thing of the past after applying a few of these gardening tricks to your backyard farm.
Read on for some of the best tips to make gardening as effortless and enjoyable as possible.
Keep Your Garden Simple
Try to keep the majority of your garden dedicated to plants you will regularly eat, use, or store. Flowers you particularly enjoy, vegetables that you and your family enjoy eating, and herbs for your most popular recipes should be the bulk of what you grow in your garden.
If you are keen on growing more exotic varieties of plants and vegetables, ones requiring special care and attention, grow them in smaller quantities and separately from the rest of your garden. Keeping them separate will make them much easier to care for and control.
Give Container Gardening a Try
Consider planting the bulk of your garden in containers instead of straight into the soil. Planters can be moved easily so you can work on your plants from a more comfortable angle. Containers make watering and weeding your garden much easier than if your plants had been grown in the ground.
Take it a step further and utilize mobile planters or hanging baskets to make maneuvering your plants a breeze while also making the most of the space you have at hand. For an easy DIY option that can make your planters mobile, you can make a homemade wooden planter and attach casters, such as the Colson caster sets. These wheels can make moving a heavy planter from place to place easy.
Go a Step Further and Try Vertical Gardening
Vertical gardening takes all the crouching out of the picture. By building or buying a trellis that is at the right height for you, gardening will be much easier on your back and knees!
As an added benefit, by utilizing vertical gardening you can get maximum use out of what space you have available in your yard!
A Trellis can easily be made out of PVC tubing, making vertical gardening an easy option to try.
Raised Beds Offer a Variety of Benefits
Besides bringing your plants up to a more manageable height for you to work with, utilizing raised beds offers many other great benefits! Offering better soil drainage and the ability to choose the best soil to meet your plants’ needs will ensure optimal growth and is bound to increase the yield you get out of your garden.
Raised beds can be made from a variety of materials such as wood, rocks, concrete, or pavers. Ideally, they should be made 3 to 4 feet wide to make them easy to work with. Depending on your height and mobility, different heights are recommended.
The above tips should set you on the right track to gardening as efficiently as possible. By planning ahead and planting your garden in a way that makes it easier to work with from the beginning, you’ll likely get much more pleasure out of gardening while also enjoying greater yields.
