Are you a landscaping enthusiast? Do you want to try your hand in landscaping, and save a significant amount of money that you would have spent hiring a professional landscaper?
From the thought of it, landscaping sounds
like an easy task. It sounds like simply finding the plants you need, planting
them, and regularly pruning trees and mowing the grass. However, there is more
than meets the eye when it comes to this task.
To be a pro in landscaping, therefore, you
need to arm yourself with the right knowledge. You need to develop unique strategies
that will make you standout. To help you achieve this, below are some tips from
the experts that might help you out.
Plan
effectively
You cannot succeed in landscaping if you
don’t invest some time to plan.
First and foremost, look at your property,
and visualize how you want it to look after landscaping. After creating a
picture in your mind, have your soil tested, so that you can determine its
water retention, and the type of plants that will work best in it.
Also, ensure that your plan encompasses
other critical factors, such as the climate in your locality, the all-season
plants needed, and what you need to do to ensure the garden you come up with is
low maintenance.
After creating a plan, actualizing it on
the ground will be less challenging.
Make
your own compost
You want to create a world-class landscape,
while at the same time keeping costs at a bare minimum, right?
One of the best ways to save money while
landscaping is to create your own compost. Experts recommend that you do this
before buying plants, so that you cannot delay planting.
Making compost is super-easy. All you need
to do is create a perfect blend of green and brown materials such as plant
trimmings, fruit and vegetable scraps, shredded paper, coffee grounds, dry
leaves, and pinecones. Leave the compost pile for a few weeks, so that it can
help create nutritious soil on which healthy plants will grow.
Make
use of egg shells
Did you know that egg shells can boost soil
nutrition? Well, you probably didn’t!
Instead of throwing egg shells into your
garbage can, spread them around the base of your plants. They will add the
calcium needed for plant growth. Additionally, they will act as an insecticide
which repels harmful bugs.
Plant
in pots
This is, without a doubt, one of the tricks
that will make you a landscaping pro.
Since you might not be an expert in
everything, and you may not have enough money to pay for consultation, grow
plants in pots and place them inside the ground.
This will ensure that if the conditions of
the spot you have placed them doesn’t support healthy growth, you can easily
move them to another spot where they can thrive.
Interesting, right?
Finally, invest time to understand bugs
that benefit your plants and pests. Also, avoid overwatering your plants, and
discover the best ways to conserve water. When you couple this with the tips
mentioned above, you will ultimately have the best landscape in the neighbourhood.
Good luck!