It's lovely having a nice maintained garden, but gardening might sometimes feel like it demands way too much of you. There's always something to be done so it's rarely perfectly 'finished', however it's much easier to keep on top of once you know how to streamline your gardening efforts. From using mulch to retain moisture and suppress weeds, to robot mowers that help automate the more laborious tasks. Here's how you can tend to your garden without too much hard work.
Soil and planting techniques
Mulch heavily
Apply bark, gravel or hay to bare soil in order to block weeds from crowding your plants and flowers. It’s also good to mulch heavily before the winter hits as this can help lock in the moisture and reduce your watering needs in general.
Plant densely
Try to opt for vigorous, spreading plants or companion planting like cucumbers and corn. This will help when it comes to outcompeting weeds that would otherwise try to rear their ugly heads.
Use compost
Compost is helpful when it comes to feeding your soil with quality nutrients, all of which directly benefits your plants and flowers. This also creates easy harvest for any fruit or vegetables you end up growing.
Smart design and planning in the space
It’s important to explore how you could design and plan your space so that it’s more efficient and modern in it’s operation and layout.
Zone your garden
Creating small and manageable zones that allocate the garden to different activities is a great way to help make use of the space that you do have.
Try out a few DIY projects
If you’re a dab hand at DIY, then a few DIY projects can be good to add to your list. They don’t need to be overly complex, you just need to have the right tools and materials like ground screws for foundations and a hammer for nailing everything into place.
Plan ahead
Design systems for water management as this can help save a lot of effort further down the line.
Lawn and landscape
One of the most time-consuming issues with maintaining a garden is often the lawn space. With that being said, here are some helpful tips to tackle the lawn and landscape in general with ease.
Reduce your lawn space
Your lawn space is important to assess, especially if you’re spending a lot of time mowing it. Reducing your lawn space might be a good idea in order to help minimize the lawn space you have. It can end up saving you a lot of time and money if your outsource it to a professional gardener.
Relax your standards
Allow for a bit of wildness when it comes to your lawn in particular. Allow a bit of wildness and tolerate some weeds here and there. Skipping tasks like washing pots or frequent edging, is also useful to do. By allowing it to grow a little you can save yourself some effort.
Automate your grass cutting needs
Finally, be sure to automate your grass cutting needs as and when it’s needed. If you have a big garden with a lot of lawn available, then investing in a robot mower can make life a lot easier and gardening a lot less tedious too.
