Top Tips for Getting your Garden Ready for summer
The recent changing of the clocks means only one thing; summer is only just around the corner. In the summer months, your garden is exposed to more sun than at any other time of the year, water is a crucial element for keeping your landscape alive. As well as quenching your gardens thirst for water, there are a few things you can do to keep your garden vibrant this summer.
Bring out the Secateurs
At Right Cut Tree and Garden Services, we recommend pruning your garden at this time of year. Pruning your garden helps prevent the spread of diseases amongst plants during the summer. We offer a garden pruning service which includes the pruning of canopies, shrubs, and low-level trees for corrective purposes.
Mulch and Irrigate
Mulching and irrigation are important practices of garden landscaping. In the UK there are no laws against using a drip irrigation system to water your garden. Drip irrigation watering systems are fitted with a pressure reducing valve and a timer. The system allows water to drip directly onto or beneath your gardens soil surface, without any surface run off or dispersion of water through the air using a jet or mist.
Mulching is a gardening technique whereby a protective layer of organic material is spread on top of your landscape soil, to help retain moisture longer. This technique is proven to give plants better health throughout the seasons.
Get Ready with a Greenhouse
A greenhouse is a great investment for any avid green finger gardener. A greenhouse enables gardeners to get hardy vegetables off to a good start, as well as getting earlier harvests of tender plants such as green beans, aubergine, cucumbers, peppers, chilies and tomatoes through the summer months. At Right Cut Tree and Garden Services we follow the below timeline:
Late spring to early summer – The ideal time to plant your summer greenhouse plants into their final positions indoors.
Mid-summer – Harvest summer crops, remove wilted crops, these can be replaced by later sown plants.
Sow calabrese, French beans, and parsley outside for bringing in when summer crops have finished.
Late summer – If you have space, sow lettuces, spicy salad leaves, and baby carrots indoors to make use of the autumn sun and provide late harvests. Plant new potatoes for Christmas crops in heated greenhouses.
Going on Holiday?
The last thing you want after returning from a relaxing summer holiday is a garden that resembles an overgrown forest. If you would like help maintaining your landscape, we would be more than happy to help. Call us on 07770 826 648 or email [email protected]