Your garden space provides tremendous benefit. It’s a space where you can unwind, surrounded by greenery. It’s a space where you can pursue leisure activities. And, if you know what you’re doing, it’s somewhere that can even provide you with fresh ingredients for your kitchen.
A space this useful deserves to be kept
clear and tidy. This is an ongoing struggle for many homeowners – but even if
you’ve allowed things to slip a little bit, you can get back on top of it with
a one-off effort.
Garden Tidy-Up Tips and Ideas
So, how do you approach a garden tidy-up?
Your first step should be to break the task
down into a list of smaller ones, and get them out into a logical order. It
might be a good idea to do this with the help of a pen and paper. Think about
what you’d like to end up with. Do you want a garden that’s functional, or
beautiful? Do you want to be able to accommodate decking, or outbuildings? Your
plan should include a rough layout of your garden. You can be as loose or
precise as you like with this.
Having gotten a list of tasks, it’s time to
work out the order in which you’ll be doing them. Since this is a garden,
you’re going to be influenced by the time of year and the weather. Different
plants and flowers will need to be gotten into the ground at particular times.
By writing out a schedule, you’ll be sure that you won’t miss your opportunity.
Get rid of moss and lichen
Scrubbing your pathways and paving stones
with a tough-bristle brush will help to eradicate moss. This is something that
you should be doing around once a month – if you stay on top of it, and brush
up afterwards, it’s easy.
Deal with fallen leaves
If you’ve got deciduous trees in your
garden, then you’ll need to deal with fallen leaves. You can either rake these
up, or you can break out the
battery-powered leaf blower. You can use what you collect as compost.
Speaking of which…
Compost
You should have an area of your garden set aside for
composting. This might be an enclosed bin, or a simple box made from wooden
beams.
Trimming Hedges
Your hedges will grow rapidly, and so this
is a task that should probably scheduled at least once a month. A
hedge trimmer with a telescopic extension will make this task much easier.
Pruning
This should be an ongoing task, as you
won’t know in advance where pruning is necessary. Look for dead and
tired-looking branches and prune them. You might set aside a period every time
you head out into the garden to do this.
