When you have an outdoor space attached to your property, it is only natural for you to want to make it look better. It will not only increase the curb appeal of your house, but will also make your life more pleasant. Gardening is fun and fulfilling, but unfortunately it is also a pretty complex craft, and you will need a lot of time and energy to acquire the skills needed for it. The following simple tips will help you make your first steps into the wonderful world of gardening:
- The initial preparation is really important. You should carefully clean up the outdoor space in order to make use of its full potential. If you want the task to be completed properly, it may be a good idea to hire a junk removal company. Most contractors doing rubbish removals also offer gardening and garden clean up services and they will be able to provide you with comprehensive help and useful advice drawn from personal experience.
- Building a gardening portfolio is a great way to gather ideas and inspiration about the things that you can do with your outdoor space. Get magazine and newspaper clippings that have caught your attention, print pictures and useful articles that you are going to find around the web and put them in one place. You can do that in a file on your computer too if you prefer working digitally. Even if you do not directly use some of the ideas, they will definitely influence and inspire you. You will learn more than you probably expect from a portfolio.
- Shoveling is an integral part of every gardening task. It is the hardest work to do in the garden too. Well, if you want the whole process to be as easy as possible, spray your garden shovel with a silicon or Teflon lubricant so that dirt does not stick to it while you work.
- Many people use a rain gauge in order to determine the amount of rain falling on their garden space and thus adjust the watering needs of the place. Well, you can make reading your rain gauge even easier than before by simply dropping a bit of food coloring to the bottom so that the water is dyed and visible from a greater distance.
- You will have to do a lot of moving of pots while you are arranging your garden. In order to make the process easier, you can update your wheelbarrow by installing a piece of plywood to the back end, thus creating a perfectly flat surface suitable for moving around pots in your garden.
- While on the subject of pots, the larger among them are considerably heavier than it is usually comfortable for moving. In order to reduce their weight and your efforts respectively, just fill the bottom half with foam packing peanuts and use landscape fabric to separate the foam from the soil. It is ingenious and pretty efficient trick that many gardeners use successfully.