Preparing For Your Summer Gardening

Hot summer is a good season for gardening, with adequate rainfall and abundant sunshine. However, you should do some preparations before you begin your gardening after the rest of cold winter and the recovery of warm spring.

First, you should clean the weeds that grow rapidly in your garden. Herbicide can effectively stop the growing weeds, however, its toxic ingredients may damage the soil and contaminate some other plants as well. Thus, you’d better use weeding fork to realize your goal, and you could loosen the soil at the same time. Though time-consuming, you could enjoy the real happiness of labor and the feeling of sweating.

Then loosen the soil, and if you’d finished this in the weeding step, you could skip this step directly. As for what you are going to plant in your garden, flowers will be the best option, they are easy to grow, beautiful as well as fragrant, can increase the romantic and warm atmosphere of your house. Of course some small fruits and vegetables are also suitable for your practical gardening plan, like cherry tomatoes, spaghetti squashes, peppers, strawberries and so on. Once you decide what to grow, you could start to search its planting teaching materials and learn, buy some high quality seeds if your goal is to harvest something.

Nevertheless, you have to realize that you may be sunburnt during your gardening process, wearing long-sleeved clothes, trousers, hat and sunscreen can help solve this problem, but undoubtedly it will be hot to death if you do so. Hence, you could consider keeping off the sun by means of sun-shade net. With its help you could do your gardening work comfortably, and it is beneficial for the growth of some shade-requiring plants. If you want to grow something in winter, this can be your greenhouse as well.