Preparing Your Garden for Next Year

After the warmer months pass, it's important to look at the autumn and winter

months as a time to plan ahead for your garden when the warm months return.

There are many ways you can prepare your garden for the next blooming season

and get the most out of your future outdoor space.

Before winter has begun and it's just starting to become colder, you may want to

consider incorporating some compost into your garden. Composting is basically

taking organic material, such as kitchen scraps, ripped twigs, or leaves, and adding

it to your soil in order to improve its quality. Gardeners who use composting do so

because it can improve the soil's water holding capability and it can improve health

and growth in plants. It's a perfect time to setup composting if you are removing

plants that are not able to make it through winter, in order to have high quality soil

when the warm months return. Now could be the time to start your own compost

heap or actually begin digging existing compost into your beds and borders.

When winter has arrived, it can be a valuable time to reflect on your garden from

the previous season and decide what the future will hold for the next year. Instead

of working as you go along, consider making a full plan that will entail all the

plants, flowers, and even vegetables you want in your garden for the next year. As

they say in sport planning prevents poor performance. So get thinking and planning

ahead and achieve the best you can.

As you plan your garden ahead of time and decide which plants to include, it will

be a huge convenience to grow seedlings of the plants before the warm months

arrive again. Seedlings allow the seeds to sprout and begin growing in an

environment that gives the best chance of success. After the seeds have sprouted

and grown, you can then transfer them to your garden. Just be sure to research this

thoroughly so that you meet the needs of every plant species. You can help

seedlings along in their early stages of life quite easily too. Do this by using simple

household products to ensure that your plants will grow when the time to restart

your garden comes. Simply take an empty egg carton, fill an empty space with soil,

and put your seed inside. There must be a hole at the bottom of the carton to ensure

any extra water leaks out. Make sure that the soil is always moist. Some plants can

take up to 12 weeks to properly grow as a seedling before it can be transferred into

your garden so it's important to look up specific information about the type of plant

ahead of time to ensure correct timing.

Obviously using household products like mentioned above can greatly reduce the

costs of your gardening but it's also much better for the environment as you will be

recycling and not using lots of the plastic trays you find in many garden centres.

It's also worth remembering that hiring an expert garden designer is something that

can help you plan ahead. Their knowledge of plants, shrubs, flowers and lawns is

incredible and their ability to prepare your garden for next spring will bring

incredible results.

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