5 gardening tips
Who does not want their yard to look beautiful and attractive. Every viewer should praise his home. Seeing his house, others should also copy it. For this people plant flowers and plants in their home gardens and balconies. In fact, by planting flowers and plants in the home balcony or in the garden, mental stress is removed. But the problem comes when the home balcony or garden has to be decorated for the first time and there is no information about gardening. That’s why it’s so important to know what to use and how to choose the right place for it when gardening at home for the first time. If you also want to decorate your garden and balcony for the first time, you can follow some simple tips. Let us know some such simple gardening tips-
Essential tips for first-time home gardening
Choose the right space: People living in the city often do not have enough space to create a garden at home. In such a situation, the balcony is the only place that gets good sunlight and can prove to be very useful for the garden. Let us tell you that for gardening at home, always choose a place where the plants get 5 to 6 hours of sunlight and also get enough water. Apart from this, the plant can also be protected from sunlight and strong wind in summer. By doing this the plant can be saved from destruction.
Start with small plants: If you want to start balcony gardening, you should start with small plants. So that it is easy to take care of them. For this you can choose mint, basil, parsley, succulent plants like aloe vera or small flowers like marigold, evergreens and vegetables like lettuce, spinach, radish. This plant grows easily in small pots or even in bags. After this, if you want, you can gradually select some larger plants as well.
Plant in light pots: For balcony gardening it would be better to use light pots or containers. By doing this, there is not much weight on the balcony. Apart from this, it also becomes very easy to keep the container from one place to another. For this you can also use HDPE and fabric grow bags if you want. Please note that this is a very light container and also has very good drainage.
Add only organic fertilizers
All types of plants grown in pots require regular fertilizers for good growth. For this organic fertilizers like cow dung, vermi compost, bone meal can be added to the plants as per their requirement. Apart from this, for the proper development of the plants, buy such seeds which prove helpful in their growth and improve their health in the future. Sand, cowdung manure, vermicompost manure etc. can be mixed with normal soil to make the soil fertile. Apart from this, adding materials like cocopeat, perlite, vermiculite to the soil also makes the soil very good.
Water the plants on time: If your balcony has good sunlight and wind, the soil of the plants also dries quickly. For this reason, timely watering of plants is very important. You can use the watering can tool to water the plants in the balcony garden. This tool comes in 5 to 10 liter capacity. You can choose a watering can based on the number of plants you have in your balcony. You should first touch the soil of the balcony plant, water only if it feels dry.
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