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Home > San Ramon Real Estate: A Must Read If You Are You Ready To Garden

San Ramon Real Estate: A Must Read If You Are You Ready To Garden

February 16, 2012 by Mona Koussa Leave a Comment

Many San Ramon homes owners want a nice garden. For a garden full of healthy, vibrant plants, though, there are many factors you need to consider. Gardening takes some effort, but it is also a pleasant and rewarding hobby. Below you will find some wonderful tips for making gardening more fun and less work!

You may be able to re-pot some plants to bring indoors for the winter. Maybe you’d like to save the most expensive plants you have or the most resistant. Dig carefully around the roots and transfer the plants to a pot.

Purchase a wheelbarrow, and a kneeling stool to use in your garden. Using a large portion of your time near or on the ground working on your garden puts a huge strain on your knees; therefore, having a portable, lightweight garden stool will greatly assist you in making gardening easier on them. Also, gardening can involve a lot of heavy lifting and moving items, therefore a robust wheelbarrow can make that aspect much easier.

If you’ve got children, gardening may be a great activity for them and for family bonding. Most children like picking out the plants and flowers. Giving them permission to be covered in dirt doesn’t happen very often for most kids, and it’s even more fun with family.

While working in your garden during the fall season, watch out for those stink bugs! Stink bugs are attracted to tomatoes, beans and most fruits. Proper measures should be taken in order to ensure minimal damage to your crops.

When fall is here, you need to plant autumn edibles. A pumpkin makes a great container, and costs less than a clay pot. Once you cut an opening at the top of the pumpkin and scoop out the insides, spray the inside and edges with Wilt-Pruf to keep the pumpkin from rotting. After you have finished this, you will be ready to start planting.

Healthy soil will be your best defense against the pests that can invade your garden. If your plants are healthy, they can more easily resist insects and disease. If you want to get the best plants, begin with a soil that has hardly any chemicals, and that will bring salts.

A lot of annual plants prefer the cold winter months. To keep these plants looking their best prune them back if they have become too leggy. After a couple of weeks, you will see these annuals bloom again, and they will look beautiful when compared to all of the winter foliage. Annual plants that flourish in cold weather are snapdragons, petunias and dianthus.

There are natural materials, and you can also use other plants to help keep pests away from your garden. Slugs can be kept at bay with a patch of marigolds or pungent vegetables. Insects also avoid shrubs and trees that are mulched with wood ash. These are methods you can use to get rid of the need to use pesticides.

With these tips, you’re better equipped to grow the most beautiful garden you can imagine. In learning how to create your dream garden, you’ll also be growing as a person. That’s because learning how to nurture your plants will not only help you reach the goal of having a great garden, but it will help you learn to nurture yourself.

Call Mona Koussa or visit San Ramon Homes For Sale for more information. You can also sign up to our New Listings Alerts to receive email notification as soon as any of these home is available for sale.

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