April Showers Really do Bring May Flowers!
Oh May, your glorious month! Man, we are so dang happy to see you girl! Time to get busy! If April is he time when the garden is emerging from sleep, then May is the time in the garden when she has had two full cups of coffee and ready for high gear, time to bloom!
Where to begin; let’s talk lawns first. Make sure that mower blade is sharp people, and do not ever mow when it is wet. This is the first step to preventing diseased lawns. Also, to prevent moles set out multiple traps along the moles trail. An old American Indian trick; it is said that the moles move to the surface on a warm sunny day at high noon. You can get them then with a garden spade, if you have the constitution to do so. I call …show more content…
And make sure you cut your lawn to the highest setting on the mower, this way you are shading out weed seeds in the soil and will have a much healthier lawn.
The taller the blade, the deeper the root!
Now, when it comes to general gardening chores for the month of May, first things first, STRETCH! Before you head out for a full Saturday worth of mulching and gardening chores make sure you give the old bod a good stretch and warm up a bit. Your back will thank me in the morning. At the age of 54 I have settled for one of those seat thingies that you can flip over and kneel on too. It has saved my gardeners back from strain! I love it!
Visit all your local gardening centers and pick up something new. I suggest every year adding a new tree or bush to the landscape and at least a couple of new perennials to the flower garden. Always, always, always try new veritable varieties. So many cool ones come out each year. If you have not tried Purple Kohlrabi you need …show more content…
Place your spade two inches away from the growth and dig down deep, tip your spade back to unearth the root ball to loosen. Do this all the way around the plant base and pull the entire thing out of the ground. Then divide each green spire into a new plant, making sure you capture a good rootstock as you go. This is the easiest and cheapest way to increase the size of ones garden. This is the very act of ‘gardening’ itself! If you do this, I give you permission to call yourself a gardener!
Oh May, your glorious month! Man, we are so dang happy to see you girl! Time to get busy! If April is he time when the garden is emerging from sleep, then May is the time in the garden when she has had two full cups of coffee and ready for high gear, time to bloom!
Where to begin; let’s talk lawns first. Make sure that mower blade is sharp people, and do not ever mow when it is wet. This is the first step to preventing diseased lawns. Also, to prevent moles set out multiple traps along the moles trail. An old American Indian trick; it is said that the moles move to the surface on a warm sunny day at high noon. You can get them then with a garden spade, if you have the constitution to do so. I call …show more content…
And make sure you cut your lawn to the highest setting on the mower, this way you are shading out weed seeds in the soil and will have a much healthier lawn.
The taller the blade, the deeper the root!
Now, when it comes to general gardening chores for the month of May, first things first, STRETCH! Before you head out for a full Saturday worth of mulching and gardening chores make sure you give the old bod a good stretch and warm up a bit. Your back will thank me in the morning. At the age of 54 I have settled for one of those seat thingies that you can flip over and kneel on too. It has saved my gardeners back from strain! I love it!
Visit all your local gardening centers and pick up something new. I suggest every year adding a new tree or bush to the landscape and at least a couple of new perennials to the flower garden. Always, always, always try new veritable varieties. So many cool ones come out each year. If you have not tried Purple Kohlrabi you need …show more content…
Place your spade two inches away from the growth and dig down deep, tip your spade back to unearth the root ball to loosen. Do this all the way around the plant base and pull the entire thing out of the ground. Then divide each green spire into a new plant, making sure you capture a good rootstock as you go. This is the easiest and cheapest way to increase the size of ones garden. This is the very act of ‘gardening’ itself! If you do this, I give you permission to call yourself a gardener!