New Planting Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide
New Planting Helps Improve Your Garden
By Suzzie T Franklin
As winter turns to spring, the longer and warmer days cause nurseries
to fill up with avid gardeners, hungry to begin planting flowers
and perhaps some vegetable seeds. It seems as though everyone
has dirt on their hands and smiles on their faces, anticipating
the new planting season.
It is a good idea before you start to review your options, have
your planting areas ready before you bring anything home. That
includes making sure your soil is as rich and healthy as possible.
Once you have made sure that your soil is prepped, there are a
number of other issues you need to address to make sure your plants
thrive and grow.
Placing Plants On Top Of The Ground
Correct planting is essential to help get your seeds bulbs and
other plants growing. It is a good idea to place the plants on
top of the ground first when planting new gardens or filling in
gaps.
This way you can see whether the plants fit into the area and
with the other surrounding greenery and plants. This gives you
a chance to change your mind and saves a lot of extra work!
Ensure You Have Chosen The Best Spot
Always make sure to check the labels for plant size and dimensions
to ensure you have chosen a suitable spot. Visualize the plant
at its size when fully grown, to determine whether it may obstruct
other plants or create too much shade, which can restrict growth.
As a rule, you should dig a hole twice the width of the plant
and slightly deeper than the length of the pot. After turning
the plant upside down, gently tap it out of the pot. Place the
planting in the center of the hole. Pack the hole with a good
mix of compost or backfill it with soil. Water it well.
Plenty Of Water Before Planting
A long soaking of water is more beneficial to a new planting
than a light watering, since a soak encourages the plant’s root
system to find cooler temperatures in the ground water. A light
sprinkling tends to cause the roots to stay on the surface of
the soil.
There are many excellent sprinklers on the market that help restrict
the water to certain areas. In cooler months, water doesn’t evaporate
as quickly, and you may find your garden does not require watering
as often.
Weeding Helps To Keep Out The Competition
Weeds are probably one of a gardeners most disliked plants. Weeding
is tedious and annoying, but remember that a small weed problem
is likely to be twice as big a problem the following week, and
therefore twice as much work.
By keeping your new planting beds well weeded, it will not only
look better but your plants won’t be competing for food and water.
Weeds tend to harbor many unwanted pests too, so if you use weed
control chemicals, then ensure that they do not come in contact
with your plants.
About the Author:
Suzzie T Franklin has written a number of articles on nursery, gardening and landscaping including
Bonsai Trees,
Flower Gardening,
Planting Guide,
The Japanese Garden,
Zen Garden,
Cherry Blossom,
African Violets,
Wire Topiary Frames.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Little Known Seeds Facts....
How do seeds become plants?
In order to understand how seeds become plants,
you first have to understand what makes up the entire seed or
kernel. A seed has three parts: an embryo, the nutrients the seed
needs for the embryo and the outside seed coat.
Without any one of those three, the seed
cannot ever become a plant. It is the embryo that will eventually
become the plant but it takes special conditions in order for
this to happen. The first is that it gets the soil and nutrients
it needs in order to grow.
When the embryo is still inside the seed
coat, it has its own supply of nutrients that will help give it
a start but after the seed coat has split off, it has to begin
relying on the soil for its water and food.
It also needs sunlight to grow. If all
the conditions are just right, the seed will form a plant and
the plant will grow to maturity, eventually producing seeds of
its own.
|
