Maintain your Garden in the Spring, Well Work the Land

To have a beautiful garden in the spring, we must learn to maintain. Here are the tips and good gestures to adjust according to your soil, your climate and your particular garden.

Spring Garden In March :

• Digg your garden land. Digging is to crack and turn the soil with a spade, a gardening tool, to loosen and aerate the soil. This method allows to make the necessary gas plant growth and have pores and cavities in the ground to a better water retention. To dig, dig trench 30 to 40 inches deep and pour fertilizer. Then indulge with the earth. The Botanic garden fork.

Spring Garden in March-April:

• Treat fruit trees susceptible to disease. These treatments are applied prevention to prevent new parasites infect the leaves and fruits. To do this, choose natural and organic products such as white oil that has insecticidal properties, washes clay-based and Bordeaux mixture (copper and lime).

• Sow green manure spring. Green manures are plants to be cut and incorporated into the soil. From mid-March, sow mustard and fava beans germinate in cold weather. During April, sow phacelia, buckwheat and vetch. Cut green fertilizer 4-6 weeks before the next crop.

• Weeding the spring garden and ornamental garden. Some natural methods to control weeds:

Collect water-cooking pasta, rice or potatoes and pour over the weeds.

- Use of salted water to remove weeds and moss. For foam, so be sure to scarify the lawn. Scarifier wheeled Botanic .

- Pour 1 liter of white vinegar in a pint of water and then sprinkle in the late afternoon.

Spring Garden in May-June :

• Grind and incorporate green manures spring. Once broken, they retain soil nutrients and serve as input of organic matter.

• Mulch the vegetable and ornamental garden. Mulching is a process that involves covering the soil with plant or mineral materials, in order to slow the growth of weeds. Use of wood chips, bark of cocoa beans or straw by the floor.

• Mount the cutting height 6 cm.