Prepare your garden for the holidays before
Most gardeners say their holiday was the most beautiful in the garden. Still need gardeners out even once in spatial distance from everyday life. The big question is: How is the garden of that time?
The solution: Prepare your garden so that he for a time largely do without care. Therefore the following measures are appropriate.Rose beds
Cut all often blooming roses before the holiday the faded blooms (Video). solitary flowers of rare roses to remove along with the top two true leaves, the flower clusters of flower bed or shrub roses cut out of the top sheet from short. Once flowering with single flowers roses should not be cut, because they wear in the fall depending on the variety, often beautiful rose hips. If you then still fertilize the plants, they bloom for the second time you come back from the holidays.
Woodland and shrub plantings
Remove before the holiday, the seed heads from perennials such as Phlox (Phlox), three-master flower (Tradescantia) and columbines (Aquilegia). This prevents the plants sown during your absence and so displace themselves over time other perennials. To drought, you should also bark mulch applied. It is woody plants, but also of shadow and shade perennials of well tolerated and protects sensitive species such as rhododendrons from drying out.
Lawn
You should mow the lawn just before you leave again. Avoid, however, a fertilizer, so that it in the next two to three weeks to grow strongly. If your lawn mower a mulching has, you should before the holiday twice within a few days of mulch mow. The clippings then trickles into the turf and reduce water loss through evaporation. The irrigation of the lawn can be a sprinkler and irrigation timer or computer automate well. If you computer to a soil moisture sensor connected to, run the sprinklers only if it is really necessary. If you go away more often, it makes sense, and underground cables to install a permanent irrigation from sprinklers.
Hedges and Topiaries
Trim your hedges (video) before the holidays, so they get to the end of the season sufficiently regenerate as possible. Topiary need depending on a more frequent pruning (Video). They are best before leaving again in the form placed on . If you cover the soil with mulch, it stays evenly moist and it does not grow as much weed.
Balcony and Container Plants
Plants in pots and window boxes are the biggest problem, because they need a regular water supply. With water storage reservoirs or mats in a container or box base While you can or two days without pouring over a bridge, prolonged absence, you will not fail to set up an automatic watering. Have proved to be computer-controlled drip irrigation, the water tap to be connected to the simple. Since there are hardly any evaporation and runoff losses, the systems are considered particularly water-saving. The drip irrigation hose nozzle in the add the water slowly and doses from the root ball and leave, depending on the model set at different flow rates.
If you want to install any irrigation, you should larger potted plants while you are away without pot in a shady spot in the garden soil for sinking. The cool temperatures and moist soil, they are better protected from drying out.
Vegetable Garden
In the vegetable garden, you should take your several weeks even in the absence of cultivation plan account. Insert the sowing dates of the various plants so that crops do not fall into their vacation time. For bush beans such as sowing dates are the classic on the 10th the months of May to July. If necessary, you should not just give up a seed set.
Orchard
The harvest of various fruits can be only through the selection of appropriate early and late varieties influenced. It usually works but also the fact that you ask your neighbors or relatives to take the crop to drop the many beautiful fruits and do not rot.
