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What better time than now? If you'd like more information on gardening, this article can serve as a starting point for you. Read on for some great ideas on how to get started on your new gardening journey.
If you have a wall or fence that you do not like, plant climbers to mask its appearance. Climbing foliage is a great way to disguise unsightly features on your property, sometimes in the span of just one season. You can also use them in your landscape to cover an existing arbor, or allow them to climb up trees, or through shrubs. Some must be tied onto a support, but a number of climbers attach to surfaces with twining stems or tendrils. Wisteria, jasmine, honeysuckle, clematis and some rose varieties are good choices for climbers.
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Grow some plants that cats like to eat - try catnip or wheat grass. Another option is to place offensively smelling objects on the topsoil near and around the plants you want to protect. Citrus peels or mothballs are a couple of examples.
You could try to boil weeds if you are trying to remain organic. This is a safe way to eliminate weeds, as this will not damage the soil. Douse the http://arlingtonmama.com/category/tree-service-2/ an added bonus, a nice mulch can help make your garden look more finished.
Increase the worth of your investment. Of all the home improvement options that you might consider, landscaping is the most cost effective. Strategic landscaping can increase the resale value of your home up to 20%, if you choose the right plants. Put plants in your front yard as well as your garden that need low moisture, and are ideal for the environmental conditions that you face.
Looking for a natural way to kill weeds in your garden? Layer sheets of newspaper on the surface of areas where you are trying to control weeds. Like any other plant, weeds need to be exposed to the sun. Newspapers placed atop weeds will starve them from light and they will eventually die. Newspapers easily break down over a period of time, and eventually become a portion of the compost. You can then add a mulch layer right on top so that it looks more attractive.
When you are growing seedlings in your organic garden, lightly brush over them using your hand up to twice a day. This may sound strange, but research has proven that doing this will help your plants grow bigger than if they were not petted at all.
The simple beer trap is still one of the best methods of ridding your organic garden of slugs. Place a jar into the soil so that the top of it's mouth rests parallel with the soil. Pour enough beer into the jar to fill it below an inch from the top. Slugs are attracted to beer. They will crawl into the jar and be trapped.
Build raised beds with untreated stone, brick or wood. If you use wood, be sure that it is untreated and naturally rot resistant. Optimal wood choices that fit these criteria are locust, cypress, and cedar. It is particular important that you don't use treated wood for vegetable beds, as the chemicals and toxins on the wood could leach into the soil and be absorbed by food plants. In the event your vegetable garden already has treated wood as part of its enclosure, consider replacing it, or painting it, or wrapping the treated wood in some protective covering. Keep in mind that if any of the untreated wood is below the ground, you should dig it up to make sure that you completely protect your vegetable garden from the chemicals in the treated wood.
Now you are prepared to start horticulture. You thought that you were ready before, well look at you now! The above tips have hopefully spurred some great ideas that you can use in your own backyard to create a garden you can be proud of.
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