How To Turn Soil (in your garden).
1. Put on your gloves and lay the tarp out flat next to your garden. Using the shovel, remove enough dirt to create a hole 1 foot and 2 inches deep. Place the dirt onto the tarp.
2. Step to the side of the hole you created and make another one exactly like it. This time, however, place the dirt you remove into the first hole. At the end of the row, scoop the dirt off the tarpaulin and fill in the last hole.
3. Repeat these steps until you have turned over the entire garden plot. The soil should now be darker, crumbly, and moist.
4. Using your garden fork, stir up the soil. Start at the beginning of the plot and go row by row, moving from left to right. This will help mulch in any dead or decaying organic material. Get ready to plant now – you're all turned over!
*While turning the soil, make sure to turn over any dead plants and weeds. These will form mulch, a covering on the ground that will enrich the soil.
The Gardener Of Eden
The “Gardener of Eden” will water your precious and beautiful flowers and plants while you’re away or even if you just don’t have time.
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Saturday, August 2, 2014
Dead-Heading
Recently, The Gardener of Eden, has added other forms of gardening to his services. Amung these additional services, includes deadheading and pruning. Here are some tips and tricks when it comes to dead-heading in your own or is someone else's garden.
What is deadheading?
Deadheading keeps your garden neat. You might even call it, a form of good plant housekeeping.
Your garden can get by without it. However, with your occasional deadheading, prune, and pinching, comes more "oohs" and "ahhs". This, although may seem a little obsessive, adds beautiful touches to your garden.
Just like people, plants also need boundaries. As we all know plants have no thinking mind, like us humans have. Therefore, in order to keep our herbivore pals in line, we need to do their thinking for them and put them in their boundaries. This include cutting them back. Allowing them to grow stronger and more beautifully.
Simply put, "deadheading" is the removal process of flowers that have already, "put on their show". By removing only the flower (not the plant from its roots) your are allowing a new flower to grow in the old one's place. Not only are those flowers removed, but even expired flowers or wilted flowers can be plucked, to let a new fresh one grow in its place.
However, you should carefully choose exactly which places to cut on large flowers are appropriate to deadhead.
Horticulturalist Wendy Brister said plants respond to pruning to perpetuate their species.
“With many plants you get re-bloom when you deadhead since, basically, the goal of the plant is to grow, set seed and die,” said Brister, “So if you take the spent flowers away and prevent it from setting seed, it will set new flowers and keep trying to produce seed before it ‘dies’.”
What is deadheading?
Deadheading keeps your garden neat. You might even call it, a form of good plant housekeeping.
Your garden can get by without it. However, with your occasional deadheading, prune, and pinching, comes more "oohs" and "ahhs". This, although may seem a little obsessive, adds beautiful touches to your garden.
Just like people, plants also need boundaries. As we all know plants have no thinking mind, like us humans have. Therefore, in order to keep our herbivore pals in line, we need to do their thinking for them and put them in their boundaries. This include cutting them back. Allowing them to grow stronger and more beautifully.
Simply put, "deadheading" is the removal process of flowers that have already, "put on their show". By removing only the flower (not the plant from its roots) your are allowing a new flower to grow in the old one's place. Not only are those flowers removed, but even expired flowers or wilted flowers can be plucked, to let a new fresh one grow in its place.
However, you should carefully choose exactly which places to cut on large flowers are appropriate to deadhead.
Horticulturalist Wendy Brister said plants respond to pruning to perpetuate their species.
“With many plants you get re-bloom when you deadhead since, basically, the goal of the plant is to grow, set seed and die,” said Brister, “So if you take the spent flowers away and prevent it from setting seed, it will set new flowers and keep trying to produce seed before it ‘dies’.”
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