Make Your Large Garden Manageable – If you’re fortunate enough to have a large garden, you might find that you’re spending far too much time maintaining it. With 75% of the adult population feeling stressed, nobody wants to deal with the additional stress of ensuring your hydrangeas are properly pruned.
If you’re battling with a large garden, we’ve put together some tips below to help you manage your space, making it easier for your garden to flourish with minimal effort.
Make Your Large Garden Manageable
- Understand and zone your space
The first step to a more organized garden is looking at your space and understanding what you have. Sometimes it’s helpful to draw out your garden so you can see what you’re working with. Trimming & pruning your garden first will allow you to see the full extent of space you’re working with.
Once you’ve done this, it’s a good idea to divide your space into zones. This means it’s much easier to keep on top of. If you’re pushed for time, adding sections for wildflowers as well as dedicated flowerbeds (and even a vegetable patch!) can help you save time when it comes to essential garden maintenance.
- Build a polytunnel
Whether you like to eat organic produce, like the satisfaction of growing your food or you’re hoping to save money as food prices soar, a vegetable patch might be a key feature of your garden.
If you’re planning to give vegetable growing a go, polytunnels are great tools for growing crops and can help with the organisation of your land too. As well as being easy to build, they last for many years, with polytunnel covers being easy to replace.
- Formulate a maintenance plan
To help you get the best out of your large space, it’s generally a good idea to create a maintenance plan that breaks your gardening tasks into smaller, more manageable chunks.
If you want to keep on top of things, you could create a calendar for planting and harvesting or you could make a schedule for watering to make sure no plants are left thirsty during the summer months. You could even make contact with someone such as a Dallas turf company and ask what ongoing maintenance plans they are able to offer to keep you keep on top of things.
- Keep some areas wild
As well as boosting biodiversity in your garden, keeping some areas adds a unique sense of intrigue to your space. By dedicating your outer borders to wildlife, not only will you encourage wildlife to thrive, but it’s one of the most low-maintenance – yet naturally beautiful – garden designs.
- Install an irrigation system
When you’re blessed with a big garden, keeping each corner of your garden watered can seem like a never-ending task. One way to keep your garden watered is by installing an automated irrigation system. While it might be a little tricky to install at first, once it’s in place, watering your garden becomes a breeze.
Final thoughts…
Caring for a large garden is no mean feat. However, the good news is that tending your garden needn’t be labour-intensive or a burden. By following the simple steps outlined above, you can cut your garden maintenance routine in half without compromising its beauty.
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Debz Louise is a plus-size blogger based in Yorkshire. Behind many nationwide campaigns such as #WeaAreTheThey & winner of Best Blogger at the UK Plus Size Awards, she talkas about life as a plus-size 40-something woman in South Yorkshire.
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