Thursday, January 22, 2015

Getting Your Garden Ready for the Summer

The chilly winters are almost over us, now whether you like it or not, the summers are here again, trees are going to be green again, and your garden will shed its sad look and get back to its colourful self in just about a few months’ time. It’s time for your to get things in order and replace your garden furniture if it did not survive the harsh winters.

Getting the garden ready with as little expense as possible

Summers are great for socializing. The beginning of the summer when the sun is not at its sweltering best, draws people out of their homes to spend time chatting and talking with their friends and family. This is when you will need, perhaps a lot if you have a big family, so here is how to keep expenses focused on buying stylish new garden furniture instead of spending on labour expenses and stuff.

  • Weed out and design a garden 

You will need a good place to sit this summer, won’t you? The winters could have wreaked havoc on your garden with weeds growing out of all sorts of places and crevices. Clean that out and plant new seasonal flowering shrubs. A beautiful looking garden is not just great to look at, it also makes for a healthy source of vegetables and fruits provided you have taken the time to plant fruit/vegetable trees. But if you have not, it’s never too late to start.

  • New Garden furniture 

Plan out a new layout for the garden; divide the place up in sections with an area dedicated for fruits and plants and another area for Garden furniture and yet another area for flowering plants. Cut out a trail through your garden that connects each of these areas together. To make everything a little exciting buy furniture for each area instead of buying similar look furniture all lumped together in one area.

  • Save on labour expenses 

The biggest expense in building a new garden is labour charge. You can save tons on these expenses by doing a lot of these things on your own. If you take a close look, there is nothing too much to it, of course no one expects you to be proficient or provide professional grade products but with some hard work and following online guides you should be able to accomplish a lot yourself.