Useful Tips to Maintain a Healthy Garden

Garden may be smaller or bigger; you need to maintain it all the year round to look green & healthy. Here are some useful tips:

1. Maintain Soil: Soil shall be loose and light in order to grow healthy plants. Clay soils will become hard and fragile over the period. You can use an organic fertilizer to maintain lose soil for a longer time. Earth’s Honey is the best organic fertilizer in Ontario in Canada.

2. Control the Weeds: Weeds cannot be completely controlled in any garden; so, you shall aim to prevent them from spreading all over the garden. Clear them when they’re small; it will be difficult when it grows big. The best time to clear them is while watered or after a rainy day; whichever suits you.

3. Take the Dead Out: Remove the rotting vegetables, damaged leaves, pulled weeds, and plant stalks. This will make the pests to stay away from your garden

4. Timely Harvest: When ripen, harvest the fruits & vegetables. If it’s a last round of harvesting, remove the plants and reuse them.

5. Cut Down the Diseased Part: Whether it may be leaves, or the entire plant – remove and destroy the diseased part of your plant; this will protect the plant from the disease spreading to other plants in your garden.

Apart from these, get some essential supports by using Trellises, stakes, A-frames and tepees. This will support you in:

• Increasing the space in your garden.
• Providing more exposure to light.
• Increasing in air circulation.
• Easier for harvest & prune.