Important gardening activities to do in your garden
Plants demand constant care and love just as we humans. planting and abandoning won't help your garden establish well.Regular inspection, monitoring followed by undertaking essential care and maintenance activities would only help thrive your garden. Hence, here are some important gardening activities to execute in your garden.
Watering your garden
Water is vital to every living beings. For plants it serves as a carrier of nutrients and sugar obtained from soil essential to plant growth.When watering your garden plants one should take into consideration of various parameters such as climatic condition, soil moisture stress and crop requirements.
Weeding your garden
Weeding your garden plants at early stage of its life is vital because they lack ability to compete with weed for the crucial nutrients required for its growth and development but after a week or so, you can limit the weeding as after certain phase of its development crop can compete for themselves. Also, clean weeding is not suggested beneficial for your micro-ecosystems therefore, prefer moderate weeding.
Mulching in garden
Mulching with the plants parts such as grass clippings, leaves, twigs or other plant residues can help suppress the weed growth and conserve the soil moisture too. Ensure that the mulching materials being used are not from the diseased plants, or placed in close contact with the collar region of the plants.
Re-potting
Another necessary practice for gardener is Re-potting. Growing the crops time and again for long time on the same pot can be deleterious to the plant health and performance. plants derive the essential nutrients from soil at their various growth stages soon, after sometime left the soil without any nutrients to uptake for new plants, for which Re-potting of pot with new soil or with mixture of soil and manure is indispensable.
Training and pruning
Training and pruning is very much essential for better performance of your plants and if you desire something more than just food. In fact, training and pruning are the necessary evil in the gardening.Training is performed to give desirable shape, size to the plants and to derive the most desirable characteristics from plants.
whereas, pruning is just removal of dead, diseased and unwanted parts from plants. pruning helps remove those unwanted suckers developed in your plants that compete with productive branches for essential resources.
In training and pruning precautions should be made for not tearing up the skins of plants and ensure the cut is clean otherwise, it would serve as an entry for various type of undesirable agents. It is crucial that you apply some Bordeaux mixture paste right after the cut.
Staking your garden plants
Staking is important if you have veggies that need support for their optimum growth like cucumbers,beans and tomatoes. Furthermore, staking prevents the breakage of young plants, and lodging by the wind.
Trapping garden pests
There are several destructive garden insect pest found lingering on the plants. They possess different feeding habits such as biting and chewing e.g. caterpillars, sucking type e.g. aphids, thrips. Insects feed upon the green matters, suck the saps and hamper the performance of your plants. Installation of traps such as yellow sticky trap, pheromone traps, light traps can attract and kill those pest.
So, here are those important gardening activities that you have to perform to nurture and burgeon your gardening career. last but not the least, have your say, do comment and help me grow.
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