It is important to give your garden proper attention throughout the year. Think about scarifying your lawn, picking up leaves and debris and pruning plants and hedges. But when do you perform these tasks correctly? We will guide you through the seasonal green maintenance and provide tips for enjoying your beautiful outdoor environment for 365 days.
Winter maintenance
Even in the winter period, seasonal green maintenance is an item. Pruning in winter seems like a bizarre task. Nevertheless, there are some plants and trees that could use pruning in winter. Only if it is freezing is it not recommended to perform this task. It is best to pick a mild day with temperatures above freezing. In addition, you will have plenty of time and space to plan for your spring and summer vegetable garden. And indoors, you can work on germinating seeds in the meantime.
Furthermore, when snow falls or freezes, you can clear your driveway and garden paths of snow and ice. Get started with a snow shovel and road salt to avoid accidents. Be sure to spread the road salt only on the paths and not on your plants. This can actually cause them to be damaged.
Spring maintenance
The great spring cleaning is the start of a colorful period. During spring cleaning, you clean up all the plants that did not make it through the winter. In addition, you can start mowing and scarifying your lawn again for optimal aeration. It is important to do this with all care and patience.
Mowing the grass once a week is gradually becoming a routine again. You can also already fertilize some plants and give low hanging hedges such as privet or yew their first pruning. Normally there are no more night frosts during spring, so you can sow plants in the ground to your heart’s content.
There are a lot of plants and shrubs already in bloom in spring, and that includes weeds. You can easily remove these by pouring boiling water on them, which will cause the weeds to dry out and shrivel up. But you can also get to work with a weed trimmer or sustainable weed control.
Summer maintenance
Summer is the favorite season to enjoy your garden. But it also requires a lot of work. In summer, you should mow your grass weekly, water your plants and shrubs daily, trim evergreen hedges and remove spent or wilted flowers and plants as much as possible. Toward the end of summer, you can phase out lawn mowing and the ideal period for (re)planting your lawn begins again.
Some fruits and vegetables can be harvested as early as summer. Think of blackberry and berry bushes, tomatoes, peppers, zucchini or cucumbers.
Autumn maintenance
Time to get your pruning shears out quickly! You still have time to prune your nut trees and trim all the protruding branches from your hedges. In addition, your garden will not only get some extra color with the changing of the leaves, but some beautiful spring flowers such as hyacinths, snowdrops and crocuses will show their heads.
The leaves that fall from the trees are removed from the lawn and can be used to cover the roots of plants and trees against the upcoming frost. Exotic and Mediterranean plants are best overwintered indoors.
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