Making Home Gardening |
Galileo had said that the sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, could still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
This summaries the idea behind your garden plans. Gardening requires a lot of patience and is a tough but satisfying job. Gardening requires arranging all elements aesthetically while keeping in mind the available space. Make sure how much space you can dedicate to the garden. Depending on the space, you can have corners of some choicest flowers to full-fledged pine.
Basically, gardens fall into two styles: formal and informal. Formal, or French, gardens are replete with small gardens and symmetrical paths. Informal, or English, gardens have lots of roses and patchwork of perennials. But most gardens are combination of both styles. Good gardener should possess the ability to recognize the elements that can create the magic in his/her garden.
You can have informal gardens that need less care and still do not show signs of carelessness or you can have formal gardens with geometrically shaped planting beds, clipped hedges, walkways, and a lawn. The entire exercise of gardening is to make your home look good and close to Mother Nature. Gardening gives you the chance to take some time out from your busy schedule, and give vent to your aesthetics that are dying in the busy life style. Large flowerbeds planted with wildflowers, wildflower meadows, and native grass may give a facelift to your house but it needs as much hard work too. The basic need of the plants is soil, water and weeding. This has to be met regularly. As a good gardener you have to take care of flowers and plants as if they are your children. You don~t have to be a soil expert or an agriculturist to be a good Gardner. You can grow your own garden as awesome as a professional gardener's with the help of gardening kits.
There are few tips that can help in gardening:
-Planning a new garden is a fun. However, the hardest thing for the new gardener is patience. You should not hurry in planting trees and flowers, as it could turn out to be an ill-conceived garden. Gardening needs planning and preparation. To dig up the available space is one thing, and to create a living garden is another.
-Depending on sunlight, composition of soil and soil moisture you must determine what you can grow in an available spot.
-Then determine the type of soil. The three constituents of soil are sand, silt and clay. An ideal garden soil would be about 40% sand, 40% silt and 20% clay. Conduct some simple tests to determine the composition of soil. Squeeze a fistful of soil into a ball; if it does not hold its shape, soil is too sandy. Now try to break the ball by pressing it with your thumb. A good soil will break apart readily; if not, you probably have too much clay in your soil.
-Add organic matter to the soil if it of poor quality. If your soil is high in sand, add topsoil and compost. If there is too much clay, add compost and some sand.
-Also soil with high clay content may require a raised bed to work on.
-Try to decide the plant types for your garden on the amount of moisture in your soil. Soil with high moisture needs to have raised flower beds, so that excess water drains out and it needs plants whose requirement for moisture is high. If your gardening plot is dry, you should select plants that grow in dry places.
Above all, you must work with the nature to get a rewarding and beautiful garden. You can feed your plants with fertilizers, but that will be like making your garden as environment friendly as an oil refinery. So, work in tune with nature.
