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Simple Tips on How to Make a Garden

Updated on April 7, 2013
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Gardens can be seen as sanctuaries or plots, where someone can grow flowers, vegetables, fruits, or a variety of other plants. Simple misconceptions about gardens are that they are hard to maintain, hard to construct, or not worth your time or effort. On the contrary with persistence and motivation, gardens are quite fun helping to relieve stress and helps to save money by growing your own peppers and tomatoes, instead of buying them. Here below are just a few tips and techniques that should help someone to get started on their own garden:

1. Decide what to plant and design your garden bed

The first tip is always to figure out what you would like to plant and where. Take a look at your yard and have an idea of where you want to plant your vegetables, plants, or flowers. The way that you want to construct your garden, will eventually be the end result of how your garden looks. You may want to plant flowers with other flowers and of course vegetables with vegetables so on and so forth. The flowers that you use and the vegetables that you decide to plant is your decision in the end.

2. Measure your garden

The next step after you decide where you want your vegetables and plants is to measure your garden. This is important so that you know the right amount of space and seeds that you need in order to make your garden grow the correct way and so that you know how many seeds you can plant and where. If you were to accidentally plant more seeds than necessary, then your plants and flowers will be squished and won't grow the way that you want them to grow or the way that they should grow.

3. Raised Garden Bed or No ?

Then, you should decide if you want a raised garden bed or not. This depends on whether or not if you want your plants to be in the ground or higher up of the ground. If you want a raised garden bed, then you should get supplies such as lumber, plastic, or wood. The lumber is the easiest and the most efficient to use.

4. Protect your Garden from the Elements

After you have decided on whether or not you want a raised bed, you should obtain organic insects that will help to protect your garden from the elements. Also, if you decided to have a raised bed, then you should fiber cloth that can go over the bed to help conserve moisture and to keep insects away from reaching your bed. If you decided not to have a raised garden bed, then you should use some sort of repellant that won't damage your vegetables or flowers, but will keep the insects and the elements from destroying your garden.

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5. Use flowers with different colors and a variety of vegetables

The different color flowers that you will use will help to add a welcoming and warm feeling to your garden overall. You can use flowers such as blue lilies, roses, dandiliones, tiger lilies, and other sorts of flowers. The vegetables that you plant depends on what vegetables you would like to see in your garden. I suggest that you can plant vegetables such as green peppers, tomatoes, jalapenos,cabbage, lettuce, and other sorts of vegetables.

6. Garden is in a good spot

It is very important to make sure that you have made a garden in a good spot. A good spot is where enough sunlight can reach the garden but where a lot of rain would prevent the plants from becoming to damaged. Your plants need a good amount of sunlight, water, and good soil in order to grow and to sustain life in your garden bed. Hence, it is necessary that your garden is in a good spot and that it is able to receive sun light.

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7. Time Management

Time Management is very important when it comes to constructing a garden and maintaining it. You have to pay attention to the whether, in order to get a better idea on what your plants, vegetables, and flowers need. For instance, if the weather is really humid, then you might want to make sure that you wanter your garden and vice versa, If the weather is too rainy, you should abstain from watering your garden and do a routine check up on it every once in a while. Pay attention to your garden. You can't expect for your garden to upkeep itself.

8. Variety

The best thing to remember about your garden is to have a variety. Variety is always best because it will add a wow factor and a sense of amazement to your overall garden that you might think of as being simple and plain. The colors will attract people to give your garden compliments and it really shows off how much work and time that you have put into your garden.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, always remember to maintain your garden and to use your time management in order to make sure that your garden receives the proper amount of sunlight and water. Make sure you know exactly where you want your garden and whether or not you want a raised garden or not. Use a variety of different flowers such as blue lilies, tiger lilies, roses, daffodils, and dandilions. Also, use a variety of different vegetables such as peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, and turnips. Place your garden in a good spot so, that the sun is able to reach it. Also, use the best repellant you in order to keep insects away and to avoid harming your garden at the same time. The last thing to remember is to not see your garden as a burden, but to see it as a time of relaxation and refocus. The worst thing about human beings is our inability to sometimes avoid processing something new into our daily routine. This means something such as watering our garden or making sure the soil isn't dry. If we aren't use to doing something on a regular basis, then we will simply give up on it or forget about it. Continue to work on your garden and you will have a beautiful arrangement coming to life in no time!

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