When you start a garden and want to make sure it stays in good shape, you will need a basic understanding of what to do.

In the beginning, you will have the rules of Mother Nature to guide you, working with the simple, natural requirements to nurture and give each plant in your garden the best chance to grow abundantly.

To learn all about the basics, “Gardening Made Easy”, available at our web site, is a comprehensive guide to help you be able to make a gorgeous, highly productive garden.

Here is a look at some of the gardening basics covered:

The Framework of the Garden

The overall appearance of your garden will be enhanced by working with your walkways, patios, decks Planting zones have been made using the typical minimum winter temperatures in each geographical regions across the country. A gardener needs to know which plants will survive an outdoor garden so they are able to choose the best plants for their region.

Mulch

Mulch goes way beyond just being a decorative dressing. Mulch guards the dirt against the sun’s harmful rays, helps the dirt keep moisture and helps to stop weeds.

Guidelines for Watering

Over watering can hurt your garden, with the same result as too little watering. Your plants roots can be damaged by watering the incorrect way, even killing beginning seedlings. Occasional, high volume watering, done less often will help your plants grow deeper, stronger root systems.

A Quick Look at Fertilizers

Three main ingredients are contained in commercial fertilizers: Nitrogen for new foliage and general plant growth, Phosphorus for a healthy root system and Potassium for establishing blooms and fruits.

The gardener can choose between dry, soluble and time-released forms of fertilizers, in order to decide how quickly the fertilizer is absorbed and in the strength of the solution to be applied.

Deadheading

While it is true that deadheading keeps your garden looking neat and tidy, it does a lot more then just that. Deadheading keeps the plant from going into a reproductive stage and encourages more growth of blooms. This will help your plants have blooms during the entire growing season!

Check out Gardening Made Easy for more information.

Tom Straub is the owner of Tom Straub Publishing and an Ezine Articles Expert Author that has written articles on a variety of subjects since 2006.

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