8 Basic Gardening Tips For Beginners
By: Tehreem Salah Ud Din
Tags: Gardening Tips, Garden, Garden Maintenance, Plants, Gardening

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With a little bit of planning, patience and, basic gardening guide you can create your own beautiful garden. Gardening is the world’s number one hobby. Study has shown that about 80 percent of the people all over the world enjoy to do gardening in order to boost their mood and to get rid of anxiety and stress.

Nothing is more attractive and exciting than eating a freshly picked tomato that you grew by yourself in your own garden and smelling the spring flowers. Gardening is not an exact science, it is easier than you think. Whether you are experienced or a beginner, you can set up your own beautiful garden with the help of these basic tips:

· Be Cognizant Of Your Planting Region

Before you start planting, you should need to know about your planting region. Do you have a lot of outdoor area or you have a balcony or an indoor space for planting? You also need to know that your area is rocky, dry, sloping, shaded or hot? Make the notes of all the information about your region. This information will help you in selecting plants for your region.

· Get Basic Gardening Tools

As you are going to start gardening, you need to get some basic gardening tools like

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Gloves: this gardening tool is not necessary but gardening gloves protect your hands from dirt, injury, scrapes, Scratches

Garden Scissors: these are ideal for cutting dead flower heads, bushes, branches, as well as fruits and vegetables.

Watering can: this is best for watering your young and delicate plants

Hand rake: you will need two types of hand rakes for your garden one with the metal.

Prongs (best for removing stones and levelling your soil) and another with soft plastic prongs (best for cleaning your garden from leaves).

Spade: spade is used for digging holes for your plants and bushes.

· Improve Your Soil

If you have a poor soil then nothing is going to grow in your garden. Before you start planting, you should test your soil. Dig a small hole and feel your soil. If it is gritty then it means it is very sandy and if it is too sticky then it has a lot of clay. The simple solution to make your soil fertile and soft is to add some amount of compost (fertilizer) in it. This will make your soil feels silky and smooth which is best for planting.

· Be Gentle With Young Plants

While planting young plants you should be gentle with them because they are delicate and can be easily damaged. Place young plants by giving little space between them. If you place young plants very closer to each other they will not able to survive for a longer time and if they do survive they will need water more frequently and more fertilizers to grow.

· Choose The Plants That You Like

You can plant whatever you want like vegetables, flowers as well as fruits if you have enough space. But it is better to start from vegetables for beginners because they are easy to grow like lettuce, bush beans, spinach, cherry tomatoes and many herbs like basil and parsley. You can also plant flowers to enhance the beauty of your garden and to attract butterflies and birds. You can also plant fruit plants but it is little difficult for beginners because they need a lot of care as well as very long time to grow and give fruits.

· Label And Organize Your Plants

Beginners can easily forget, what they have planted and where. Make some small labels and place them alongside your plant, it will take only few minutes. You can also keep a notebook to write down the progress of your garden, which will help in making future improvements.

· Provide Sufficient Amount of Water

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Different plants need different amount of water, for example some plants require dry soil to grow like cactus plant on the other hand some plants grows in watery places like water lilies. Young plants will need to be watered daily to grow while developed plants need to be watered ones after every 2–3 days depending on weather. So give every plant the amount of water they require.

· Be Patient

You will not get your dream garden in your first season, you need to be remain patient. Keep on trying new things and do experiments. You will learn what your plant needs with the passage of time.