10 Tips for Getting Your Garden Ready for Summer
Spring tips for a beautiful garden: mow, scarify, and fertilize for a healthy lawn. Remove weeds using eco-friendly methods, prune plants to encourage full bloom, and plant new evergreens. Check playground equipment and give your patio, pavers, and garden furniture a spring cleaning for a fresh, safe outdoor space.
1. Take a look at your lawn: First, start by mowing the grass so it looks as fresh as your hair after a haircut. It’s always best to wait until there’s no longer any frost at night before doing this. Or let your lawn breathe again by aerating it. So go ahead and get out your aerator!
After the winter months, your lawn could use some extra nourishment. For a quick boost, you can use artificial fertilizer. This will help your grass recover a bit faster, but in the long run, natural fertilizer will result in healthier and thicker grass.
Get rid of unwanted guests: Track down any weeds and remove them. Otherwise, you run the risk of preventing new growth from neighboring plants from taking root. Avid gardeners can pull weeds by hand, but an eco-friendly weed killer is, of course, also an option. Just be careful not to damage other plants.
Go ahead and prune! Before letting your plants, flowers, trees, and hedges bloom, it’s best to give them a quick trim with your pruning shears first. A thorough pruning in the spring ensures that your plants will look their best by summer.
Want to brighten things up a bit and add some new plants? Then it’s best to plant them in the spring. After all, nature needs time to grow something beautiful.
If you have playground equipment in your yard for the kids, it’s a good idea to check it out. You never know if certain weather conditions might have caused damage, which could lead to injuries if the kids start playing on it again.
If you have a patio, it’s a good idea to give it a quick clean. If you give it a good scrub in the spring, you’ll remove the soil where seeds can germinate. That way, you’ll have gotten rid of weeds before they even appear.
If you have pavers in your garden, you can give them a quick scrub with a brush. Scrub them thoroughly and then rinse them off with a garden hose. It can be hard work, but the beautiful results are definitely worth it.
Owners of wooden patio furniture should take a moment to give their furniture a quick once-over, even if it was stored under cover. After all, a little extra protection never hurts. Plastic furniture, on the other hand, doesn’t require much effort: just wiping it down with a damp cloth is enough.
Be sure to do some spring cleaning in your garden shed, too. You’ll most likely come across garden tools that you no longer need or that are broken.