Transform Your Garden and Home

Helpful tips to keep your garden landscaping healthy and attractive

24 May 2021

Christy Rivera

Working in the garden is a popular hobby that is rewarding in many ways, including time spent in the sunshine and fresh air in addition to visual results in your yard's landscaping. There are many materials that you can use in your landscaping projects to help improve your vegetation and surrounding areas. The following provides you with some information about planning and installing an attractive and functional landscaped yard and garden.

Adjust and improve your soil

The texture and condition of your yard soil are going to really make a difference in how well your landscaping and garden vegetation grow. When you have a garden with various types of plants, they are going to continually pull nutrients from your soil. And if you don't replenish the soil with its essential nutrients, your landscaping will begin to slow its growth and decline in health. You may find that your plants stay small and don't produce flowers or fruit, and they may look yellow in appearance.

Signs of poor soil condition may be soil that contains a lot of rocks or clay clumps that don't break apart easily. If you squeeze a clump of soil in your fist and release the soil, it should crumble apart and not remain a clump. When it remains a clump, this indicates it contains a high amount of clay and your soil needs organic nutrients added to it to improve its health. 

Fortunately, you can buy soils rich in nutrients from a local shop or a landscape supplier, which you can add to your yard's existing soil. When you add the new soil to your existing garden, layer it over the top and work it down into the soil with a spade or shovel so you don't fully disturb your growing plot. You can also look for organic compost and mulch that will provide benefit to your soil and plants. Bagged compost is essentially nutrient-dense organic material that you can infuse into the soil around existing plants or spread over a large area.

Add accent materials

Once you have taken care of your soil's improvements, you can look at the accent areas of your garden landscaping. The edges of a garden spot can be lined with a rock or other edging material, which will give it clear definition while it keeps your garden plants and soil coverings in place.

For example, if you are installing a pea gravel covered walkway through your lawn, you don't want the gravel getting spilled onto the lawn. To keep it in its place you should add an edging material made of large rocks, paver stones, brick, or concrete edging forms.

For more ideas on landscaping products, contact a professional landscaping service.

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