Hello World! Welcome Friends! Getting your backyard ready for the bright sunny season can be a long process, but if you plan ahead, you’ll have an easier time making it through this season.
One of the ways to get your backyard ready for summer is by starting a garden. A garden allows you to grow your own fruits, vegetables, and even flowers. Not only are gardens beautiful, but they will enable you to have everything that you would need to keep your backyard looking great all season long!
However, it is especially important to plant in the early spring before plants begin growing again. It’s much more challenging to prune during the summer months when plants are full of leaves.
Tree roots often damage swimming pools because the branches and roots are thicker and harder to cut when they are loaded with foliage. Without proper pruning, your landscape won’t look quite right or be as healthy as it could be.
Tips To Start Your Own Vegetable Garden:
To start your garden, there are a few simple things that you will need to have and a few more things that you will want to have.
1. Soil
First, the basics. You will need some soil for your plants; whether or not it is prepped or store-bought is up to you. Make sure whatever type of soil you choose has enough nutrients for your plants so that fertilizers won’t be necessary.
2. Plants and Veggies
Next, plants. What kind of plants and veg do you want? This depends on where in your backyard the garden is going to go. Do you want a full garden or a small flower pot? Either one can be just as easy depending on what you decide! Lastly, water and sun.
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Benefits Of Growing Your Own Vegetable Garden
How is growing your own garden better than store-bought produce?
Well, the answer is rather simple: Growing your own garden is free. And that’s just the beginning of why it’s so much better.
1. Health Benefits
Not only are you getting healthier, fresher fruits and vegetables but also locally grown! There are tons of environmental factors that growing outdoors eliminates too. For instance, pesticides used on store-bought plants are located all over the fruit/vegetables, meaning every time you eat some, you are ingesting them too.
This doesn’t happen when they are grown outside because there aren’t any added chemicals to keep bugs away or make the plant look perfect for the market.
2. Cost Effectiveness
As well as keeping harmful chemicals out of our food, there are also no ridiculously long trips from your house to the market and back. If it isn’t grown locally, then there is a good chance that you will be eating something that has been traveling for days on end before getting to your plate.
3. You Determine The Prime Time
Not only do vegetables grown outside taste better because they haven’t been picked green and flown across the country, but they are fresher too! By growing it yourself, you get produce when it is at its prime instead of buying what someone else thinks might be ripe enough. This means more nutrients and less time on the shelf which also means more money in your wallet.
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