Garden Maintenance
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Once you have your garden planned and looking healthy, you now must maintain its upkeep. Spencer Wilson Gardens will maintain the integrity of your garden's design while ridding you of worries about:
- Weeding
- Pruning
- Trimming
- Soil improvement through composting and mulching
- And pest and disease identification and treatment
Spencer's expertise in maintenance will be tailored specifically to suit your garden site and your requests.
It is up to you whether a more minimal approach or comprehensive approach is best. When the right balance is achieved, your garden can be kept sustainable and will respond accordingly. Spencer will then work to keep the area in a living and dynamic state.
Spencer's suggested seasonal activities that may benefit your garden are as follows:
Spring:
- Planting early spring
- Applying compost and/or mulch
- Feeding organic plant food
- Pruning
- Weeding
- Organic spraying
- And other normal activities
Summer:
- Liquid feeding
- Dead-heading roses
- Weeding
- General maintenance
- Supplementary water additives if necessary
Autumn
- Planting season (enables plants to be established before the next summer)
- Feeding plants solid organic fertiliser
- Pruning of spring and summer flowering plants
- General shaping
- Digging over of soil, for addition of compost
Winter:
- A large amount of pruning
- Other normal maintenance activities
- General preparation of the garden for next season
- A general overlook at what aspects of the garden can be improved
Aspects of Maintenance:
Feeding:
A well fed plant will be a happy plant!!!
Using the correct food will maximise the plants effect. General the best results are feeding twice a year during Spring and Autumn with supplementary feeding of liquid food. The use of organic pellets are effective but keeping in mind the nitrogen factors which ill provide a means for all other nutrients to follow.
Plants in pots must be feed more regularly but less each time.
Pruning:
This is important for plant growth and health of the plants. Pruning is normally done in the dormant periods of growth.
Well pruned plants will:
- have better flowering
- better shape and vigour
- removal of sick and damaged limbs
- generate growth and health and performance
Flowering plants are best pruned after flowering.
The degree of skill and intensity of the pruning will show itself in how it responds.
Plant Health
Watching how plants respond to their environment by:
- the use of natural organic methods and actions
- encourage beneficial insects to try and keep a balance between friend and foe
- use of organic sprays.
Mulching
Use of organic permeable mulch
- Mulch reduces the risk of evaporation and provides nitrogen uptake as it breaks down.
- Mulch retains water in the soil and protects the surface roots of a plant.
