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Gardening can be a wonderful hobby. It has the joy of creation, it has great satisfaction that comes in the face of the blossoming appearance of plants we have cultivated, it is a hobby that takes us out and makes us inhale fresh air and it also makes us move the body and do some exercise.
Gardening is a field that requires knowledge, experience and skills. But even if you are an amateur gardener, you can grow flowers, trees, herbs, herbs, vegetables, fruits and shrubs in your home garden. All you need is a high motivation to learn, to try and also to make mistakes, patience, determination and perseverance. Gardening is a magical process that can be enjoyed even if not everything always goes smoothly.
Plan what you want in your garden
Always plan your garden in advance. Determine in a diagram or drawing how you want your garden to look. Where do you want a lawn, where are herbs and where are trees. Think carefully about where to place a rock and where to set a small jungle plant corner. Determine in advance if you want a trail and what its shape will be. Decide retroactively where the seating area will be and where the pagoda will be, and in planning take into account the natural conditions of the garden and try to work with them and not against them. Look at an excavation company to assist you further.
Find the plants
Have you been to Europe and seen a lovely plant so you purchased its seeds? Did you just return from a trip to India and buy seeds of an exotic plant? The choice of plants for the garden is based on a whole set of constraints including: the type of climate you have in the garden, the size of the garden, amount of sun, amount of shade, soil condition, soil type, pests, garden elements such as fences, rocks, garden furniture and walls, water accessibility, After perfecting all this data and seeing which plants are in line with all the conditions we have listed, one can start to choose from this limited pool of plants for the home garden.
There are certain plants and plant roots that are considered very dominant and they take over very quickly the entire garden or fence. Some plants are planted on one side of the garden and suddenly they grow on the other side of the garden as well, without us wanting it. The solution to these plants is to plant them in a large pot or some other large plastic container. This solution is effective for plants such as: bougainvillea, winter sedge, ficus and even mint. We are used to thinking that leaves and deciduous plants should be thrown in the trash. We see them as unwanted waste. But in practice it is recommended to leave some leaves in the vicinity of the vegetation, since they absorb moisture and emit it in a kind of endless circle. This blessed moisture can help and reduce the amount of irrigation water.
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