Summer is bursting out the gates, with temperatures soaring over the past few weeks for a lot of us, and there are fewer better places to cool down and relax than in your own garden. If you’re looking to ready your garden for the new season, there is work to be done. Aside from all of the traditional tidying up, however, you might want to look closer at some of the issues that are affecting your garden. If any of these sound familiar, then you want to take action to deal with them now. As summer goes on and the garden keeps growing, they can become only more troublesome.
A whole lot of weeds
You might be looking out at your garden with a touch of despair that your weed problem has gotten so bad. There is no garden that doesn’t have to deal with weeds, except for those that are entirely artificial. They’re going to be consistently growing throughout the season, so you want to use a mulch to stifle their growth where you can. Otherwise, if they’re growing in your lawn, you should look at using natural weedkillers, consider using boiling water to scald them, or just pluck them up as soon as you can. You have to get used to the idea of weeding your garden, however. It’s not a problem that’s going to simply go away, you just have to manage it.
Dry or wet soil
If you’re trying to plant something new, then you need to make sure that the soil is in good condition. The problem that is, by far, the most common is a moisture imbalance. If your soil is too dry, then that is relatively easy to fix: you just need to water it more often. If it’s too wet, however, seeds can drown and rot. If your soil retains a lot of moisture, then you might want to look into installing a drainage system that drains excess water out of the soil and dumps it into your sewage system. You want to water any seeds that you plant and keep the soil moist, but it shouldn’t be waterlogged.
A mossy lawn
Moss can grow anywhere, and if there is moss in your area, then it’s likely to spread to your lawn at some point. When it happens, this can be extremely frustrating as it can prevent grass from growing through and your lawn can become unsightly and spongy. Cutting out the sources of mossy lawns, such as weak grass or compacted soil, can help. If you have a mossy lawn, then the first thing you want to do is kill it using moss killer, be it natural or bought. Use a scarifier on the ground beneath it, breaking it up and lifting the moss right out, then remove as much of the moss as you can, since it should be lifted. After that, you want to aerate the soil by dragging a garden fork through it in neat lines. After that, you can plant your grass seed and help get your lawn back to good as new. Again, you’re not likely to get every single bit of moss this way, so good care of your lawn in the follow-up is key.