What are some good gardening tricks?
One of the most entertaining and enjoyable activities most seniors tend to do after retirement is gardening. Suppose it requires significant time, attention, and patience; it could be the right choice to keep yourself busy with a meaningful activity after retirement.
You can design your garden and plant your fruits and vegetables. Fantastic, isn’t it? If you’re not a pro at gardening, the following tips and tricks could be helpful.
• Plan before you plant!
Before planting any seeds or plants in your garden, spend a couple of hours designing your house garden on paper. It’s essential! You need to know how large a plant and its roots will be, and based on that, estimate the distance of each plant to another one. It’s recommended to put the taller plants in the back and the shorter ones in front. It makes it easy to check them out from long distances.
• Make your garden in a place that gets enough sunlight
To suppose you’re planning to create a vegetable garden. In that case, it’s essential to locate it in an area that receives at least 8 hours of full sun during the day without any shadows.
• Use peelings of fruits and vegetables as compost
Leftover peelings from organic products we daily use are the best and cheapest organic composts you can ever get. Just remember to run them in a food mixer before putting them in your plants’ soil.
• Harvest your vegetables early hours of the day
It’s recommended to harvest the vegetables in the early morning since, at that time, they are more nutrient-rich than at any other time of day.
