Does your backyard garden seem to fail every time you turn around? Not to worry. Although gardens can be difficult to keep in a changing climate and with a busy schedule, cutting-edge techniques can be used to maintain your plot.
One method to extend the life of your garden is using a water tank. Water tanks connect to your guttering system, which it uses to collect rainwater to be stored for later use in watering your garden. The environmental impact of watering your garden frequently can be significant. In addition to increasing your water bill, you’re drawing on local supplies to do so. Why not try and be environmentally conscious in your gardening as well as save money?
Another way to help your garden survive is by investing in organic gardening. While organic fertilizer may seem expensive, it will increase the longevity of your plants. Flora such as marigolds and poppies thrive on organic fertilizer, and they return every year to add beauty and class to your garden. This helps the overall sustainability of your plot.
One important trick to make your garden healthier is to avoid at all costs the use of artificial pesticides. These poisonous substances may kill insects, but they also contaminate the soil in some cases, causing plants’ health to suffer long-term. The natural order of your garden will reassert itself with time, so avoid dumping or spraying excessive pest control products. Your plot will be healthier overall, and plants will be happier.
To attain finer control over your garden’s health, consider a soil pH-measuring instrument of which there are many electronic soil devices. To make sure your garden’s soil is hale and healthy its pH should be taken regularly. Overly acidic or basic soil will harm your plants and make your gardening experience more difficult.
In addition, to enrich your soil and help fertilize the ground, look for opportunities to acquire cheap and rich compost material. An automatic compost machine will help you compress compost materials and distribute them. You will see an immediate increase in growth and diversity once you seed the ground with the right organic materials.
If you run out of room in your plot, one helpful way to ensure your garden spreads and survives is to try window farming. This innovative “vertical gardening” technique helps you to generate a crop even with limited space available. It involves connecting water bottles to a hanging system (normally used for art), and using an aquarium pump and air valve needles to produce a vertical plant system which needs no soil. Just look for the various new vertical watering devices available, and start saving up 1.5 liter water bottles. Soon you’ll have enough material to make your own window garden!
Overall, there are many options for cementing your plot’s survival despite inclement weather and soil problems. Organic gardening, rainwater tanks, pH machines and other tools can all be used to bring your garden to thriving sustainable health.
Ewan Michaels enjoys gardening in his spare time and believes that sustainability is a necessary part of our future. He currently works for UK Water Features who are also a water fountains provider.
