The warm days of summer are perfect for cultivating an amazing array of summer vegetables or beautiful blooms. To inspire your green thumb, here are 5 top tips for summer gardening:
- Weed control: Mulch is your friend, as is a good weed control garden fabric before planting your seedlings. We found this awesome site that has six top tips for summer weeding, including one of my favorites – weed when wet! After a rain, weeding is SO much easier! Read all six here.
- Deadhead those blooms: Removing spent flowers helps plants put more energy into flowering again. Annuals, and repeat flowering shrubs and perennials will offer more color, more often during the season if you deadhead.
- Say goodbye to the bugs. While you’re weeding, watch for sign of insects or disease pests. Protect the good bugs (bees, ladybugs, worms) and ditch the detractors! For advice on this topic, we headed to our friends at HGTV to learn about 16 of the peskiest garden bugs and how to keep your garden safe. Read them all here.
- Pick your veggies: Keep repeat fruiting plants such as tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, and squash picked cleanly as soon as they ripen. Leaving them on the plants to over-mature or rot slows or halts production!
- Fertilize: Mid-summer is a good time to see what your soil needs. Heavy rains or even dry-spells can leave your plants without the property resources. I found a great resource to help you better understand what your plants might need. Read fertilizing tips here.
Wishing you a happy summer garden. Please feel free to pass these tips and links on to your friends who might want to try their green-thumb skills this week as well!
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