A New Year for Your Lawn and Garden
Ring in the New Year's bell with resolutions for your yard. Whether you want to make some home improvements, add a little curb appeal, make your outdoor living space more comfortable, or just keep it tidy, these ideas and tips will help you achieve your goals. So get out there and start planning your perfect yard.
Maintain Your Lawn
A well-maintained lawn is a joy to behold. Whether you are entertaining guests for the occasion or simply need some time away from your busy work routine, a well-maintained, neatly manicured yard is your safe haven.
A lawn is a constant work in progress, and it must receive basic care to look its best all year long. A well-maintained lawn needs less water, fertilizer and is more resistant to weeds. Proper lawn maintenance is essential for healthy turfgrass. Many growing problems, such as pest infestations, diseases, insects, etc., can be prevented by good yard management. A well-maintained lawn ensures the health and beauty of your lawn.
Back in the days when our parents were young, lawns were a thing of natural beauty. With regular maintenance, they used to
apply organic fertilizers to magnify yard beauty. Nowadays, lawns and gardens are maintained at the expense of the environment. So, this year's resolution should be to go green while ensuring the health of your lawn without leaving a negative impact on Mother Earth.
A small task like mowing can make such an impact on how we interact with our surroundings when they are in pristine condition. Now let's imagine how a full lawn maintenance program can transform the whole landscape. A regular lawn maintenance routine includes:
- Regular watering and weeding
- Weekly or
bi-weekly lawn mowing
- Regular cleaning of walkways, driveways, and patio areas
- Border edging for walkways, driveways, and patio areas
- Regular Pruning of Trees and Shrubs
- Seasonal
leaves cleanup
- Seasonal removal of unwanted growth and debris
- Mulching when needed
- Fertilization depending on the soil health
- Removing dead plants and planting a new one
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Maintain Kitchen Garden
A kitchen garden is not just endless work. With every bit of back-breaking effort, you get a bucketful of fresh, healthy, and organic vegetables and fruits. A homegrown vs. store-bought debate has been going on since before supermarkets were even around. But today, there are more reasons than ever before why having a kitchen garden makes sense.
Growing your own food in your backyard is a fun and satisfying activity. A thriving kitchen garden is a perfect source of fresh vegetables, herbs, and fruits. If you crave healthier and more flavorful meals, having a kitchen garden will be a perfect way to get that.
A kitchen garden not only feeds you but also helps you relax while providing a constant source of discovery. It is a perfect place to unwind from the day, and you have an interactive experience with nature to awaken all your senses.
Although vegetables do not require more pampering than ornamental plants, they can be less forgiving of neglect. So, before jumping ahead, taking professional help guarantees you success. From soil analysis to space planning, the right fertilizer, to perfect timing,
Green Garden Landscaping gives you a full plan for the perfectly functioning kitchen garden.
Have a Place to Enjoy Your Favorite Outdoor Activities
In this new normal, many people miss their outdoor activities. We have become more sedentary with almost no outdoor activities. When most people are considering having a mini gym at home to stay healthy and active, we are almost starting to forget how fun it is to play outdoors.
This summer, relive your childhood memories by dedicating a portion of your lawn to your favorite outdoor games. You can play badminton, volleyball, or cricket. You can even bring the golf course home. Yes, you heard it right. You don't necessarily need enough space for 18 holes. If you have a small space, a nine-hole course or a chipping course will do the trick.
From a treehouse to backyard camping, an inflatable pool, or a climbing wall, there are millions of ideas to stay active while enjoying your time outdoors. So, this year, don't make pandemic an excuse and transform your backyard into a place where you can enjoy your favorite outdoor activities with your kids, family, and friends.
Living Fence With Layers of Shrubs, Grasses, Trees, and Flowers
A Garden ready to Embrace Every Season
From lush spring flower beds to brilliant autumn foliage, seasonal changes are what attract gardeners to their gardens. Inversely, the garden changes as the season changes. So, if you want to have a permanent color splash and excitement in the garden yard year-round, you need to tend to your garden regularly.
Spring, for many people, is the most incredible time of the year. Followed by bone-freezing winters, spring comes in your backyard with vibrant flowers, romantic scents, and cheerful colors. Just a few seconds spent in full bloom brightens up your soul and lights hopes to survive and thrive.
Welcome the warmer days and brighter nights with an abundance of much-needed color from spring bulbs, tree blossoms, and garden birds. Make the season more joyful with a strategic display of different flowers. Do not let the pesky weeds take advantage of the blooming season and limit their growth timely. Also, make sure your lawn looks tidy in the fall.
To enjoy the gentle warmth of summer under the shade of your garden trees, make sure there are no bugs to bug you.
Regular lawn pest control ensures a stress-free outdoor time in the comfort of mother nature. Having a tire swing or patio swing compels you to spend more time outdoors. Do not forget to install a fire pit to enjoy winter with the company of your friends and family.
Having Roof Gardens and Terraces
In a crowded city, greenery is a welcome change for everyone. It makes us feel closer to nature, and that is what we all need after a long day at work. As people have less space now, they are
going vertical with their personal green spaces by having roof gardens and terraces.
A roof garden is the best if you don't have a yard, patio, or balcony to plant your favorite flowers or vegetables. Using containers, flower pots, or plant beds, you can grow vines, fruits, ornamental plants, vegetables, etc on your roofs. In addition to the decorative benefit, the roof garden provides architectural enhancement, recreational opportunities, temperature control, habitats for wildlife and food.
If you don't have access to a roof, you can create an urban terrace garden on your balcony. They are perfect for small apartments where balconies serve as an outdoor room. You can use vertical plants like trellises or vines to create an illusion of being in a garden while sitting at home.
Install Natural Mulch Edging instead of Brick, Plastic, Brick or Rubber
Natural mulches are the best alternatives to plastic, rubber, or brick edging because they look good and provide your garden soil with much-needed nutrients. It creates a defined boundary between the lawn and flower bed without harming the soil. In fact, they help retain moisture to feed your lawn grasses and plants.
You can get a variety of natural mulches for your garden, such as hardwood bark mulches, colored straws, pine straws, coconut husks, etc. However, if you want a modern designer look, you should opt for a shiny colored mulch that complements your landscape.
For a more functional design, you should choose a mat mulch with a 3 to 5 inch height and is not slippery. Mulches are easy to install and easily shaped into curves or circles. They also provide good drainage and retain moisture in the soil. If you want to prevent your grass lawn from growing over the flower beds, edging with mulch is a good bet.
Outdoor Home Office
Since the pandemic, working from home has become a popular option for many professionals. With remote work becoming the norm, professionals need a space within the vicinity of their home where they can work without any distractions or interruptions. So, you can shift your office to your very own garden where you will be able to focus on your work while enjoying nature to its fullest.
An outdoor home office means you do not have to work in your bedroom, living room, or at the dining room table. A garden office is a designated area for work away from noises and distractions of home. No more kids shouting and playing around, and everything placed perfectly is what you want while working remotely. So the garden office is a workspace within your home where you spend your productive hours and you can leave your stuff behind at the end of your day.
Having an outdoor home office saves the hours you used to spend commuting. So now you can socialize more or spend time doing whatever you want. The most exciting thing is that you can easily cover the cost of your new garden office from the money you will save on transport fares or petrol. You can customize your garden office according to your space and taste and enjoy a fresh green environment 24/7.
Make Your Yard More Comfortable and Usable
Begin Composting
In this day and age, it is more important than ever for us to take care of our planet. Composting can help by decreasing waste sent off into landfills and make natural gardening easier on yourself without using harmful chemicals.
It does not take a lot of effort for kitchen food scraps to transform into rich organic fertilizer. Compost is a safe and environment-friendly way to turn your food and plant waste into something useful. All you have to do is collect the scraps in a container and wait for the decomposition.
You can make a simple compost bin by fixing four wooden stakes in the ground. Discarded plastic containers will also do the trick. Put your fruit and vegetable scraps with wood chips, shredded paper, garden soil, and dry leaves in the compost bin. Then, water the pile from time to time, but not so much that it is soggy.
Cover the bin and place it in a warm place until you can smell a rotting odor coming from it. Another great method for recycling food scraps is using a worm composter, which is cheap and easy to build from materials that can be found at any hardware store. Leave the compost pile for 3 months at least to get the best results.
Create a Low-Water Landscape with Drought-Tolerant Plants
Final Words
We hope you liked our ideas for your lawn and landscape for 2022. With a fresh start and new hopes, let's decide to go green this year and spend maximum time outdoors for a healthy and organic life.
