We are looking forward to healthy food, fragranced flowers that beautify our living environment. The best solution is to own an organic garden in the backyard or balcony. Regardless of how big it is and where it locates, there are so many benefits to our lives to start a garden and grow organic vegetables and flowers. but planting does need a gardening plan.
What are the benefits of planting in the backyard or balcony?
1. Green plants, flowers improve our living environment and mental health. Gardening relieves your stress and anxiety when you concentrate on it.
2. The process of growing vegetables for half an hour a day is doing exercises and burning calories.
3. The quality of vegetables is under your control, is organic, and is healthy.
4. Picking vegetables boosts your happiness and sense of achievement. Harvest is the biggest joy in life.
5. Growing your own vegetables can save money and time. You can enjoy the freshest, sweet and juicy vegetables on the lowest budget without having to enter the market.
What to grow in my backyard garden?
It is so lucky to have a backyard, no matter small or big, gardening in the backyard brings joy and healthy food. There are plenty of things you can grow in the garden, such as planting vegetables, fruits, grains, flowers, grass, or raising chickens.
How do I start a garden with vegetables?
1. A sunny location is essential. It can be a part of our backyard or on the balcony at home. Most plants need more than 6-8 hours of direct sunlight every day. A few vegetables can grow in less sunlight like carrots, cauliflowers, garlic.
2. Good environment helps plants grow safely. Avoid places with heavy winds, floods, and heavy traffic. You don’t want to move your plants from time to time when your family members complain.
3. The planting area is close to the outside faucet. Otherwise, you need to connect a long garden hose. Watering should be done in the morning or evening. It is not good to water your vegetable garden during the hottest part of the day.
4. Healthy garden soil makes good vegetables. The best soil for plants is a mixture of silt, sand, and clay. It retains moisture and drains well. The soil should not be too wet or too dry.
5. Start a garden with proper containers for a small planting area. At the beginning of gardening, plant 3-4 potted easy grow vegetables, such as potatoes, lettuce, hot peppers, and green beans.
6. Monthly fertilizing is good for vegetables. Fertilizers provide nutrients, including the most important for a garden: nitrogen which encourages leaf growth, and phosphorous which aids in root health. Organic fertilizers can be more effective and long-lasting than chemical fertilizers.
7. Convenient garden tools save your time and protect your hands.
What are the most common garden tools?
1. Gloves.
When you start a garden, gloves are very essential. Because gloves protect your hand and fingernails from scrapes and cuts, dirt, and wetness when you are doing all the gardening work you like, such as gardening, fishing, or doing house chores. They are made of leather, rubber, coating woven fabric, which are comfortable and durable. Long gloves can protect your hands and wrists when pruning thorns. There are, however, some people who don’t like to wear gloves when doing light gardening work. They like the natural touch of soil and plants.
This pair of garden gloves are coated with rubber with four plastic claws for digging up roots and stubborn dirt in housework. The claws can be taken off. You can wear them when you hold a garden rake, seeding, digging or pruning, painting, planting.
2. Pruning shears
The sharp blade of pruning shears helps cut small stems and light branches cleanly and easily.
Good pruners should be comfortable to handle, durable and sharp enough, easy to clean, suitable for both men and women. With a handy stem scissor, you can keep your plants beautiful and healthy very easily.
Clean, dry, and store in a dry place after each use, the pruners can last for years.
3. Hoe
With a hoe, you can easily prepare your garden before cultivating vegetables and flowers. It can break hard soil, weeding and placing seeds or plants in the ground.
4. Garden tools kit
This tool kit includes a full list of small garden tools such as hand rake, hand trowel, hand pruner, spray bottle, and so on. The bag is convenient and easy to pack and keep your tools inside.
The toolset is really helpful when you are enjoying your garden work, will make you stay home and backyard longer time.
5. Garden Dibber Tool
A garden dibber helps you sow and plant fast. The pointed design makes hole punching and seeding a very easy task.
6. Lopper
When cutting thicker, tougher branches, a professional gardener needs a powerful tool to finish the trimming task, regardless the branches are fresh or dried. You can use this lopper to start your spring trimming. The long handle allows you to reach farther branches.
7. Garden leaf rake
This metal rake helps you collect fallen leaves and dried grass effectively in your yard. The adjustable head lets you close or open the rake upon your need. And the lightweight design with an expandable handle makes cleaning your garden much easier.
8. Garden shoes
Garden shoes are very necessary and professional for gardening, as gardening is a job of soil, rocks, and plants. Ordinary sport or casual shoes are easy to get dirty and difficult to clean. Garden shoes are usually made of rubber or plastic, which are durable and water-resistant, and are easy to clean. Most importantly, they are not expensive. Wearing a pair of garden shoes for gardening can protect your feet from scratches without spending too much. That saves your money and time in cleaning.
The style of garden shoes depends on the weather and season. In spring and winter, you need a pair of rain boots to protect your feet from water and cold. In summer, a pair of non-slip sloggers are comfortable enough for your summer garden work.
The length of these boots allows you to walk on grass without water getting in, and they are easy to slip on and off when you’re going out in wet weather.
9. Dump cart
If you do a lot of gardening work and landscaping, with a dump cart, you can manage all materials easily around the yard, for instance, load up heavy soil rocks and pull around the yard without assistance. It loads everything you need up in one trip when you work outside. You can dump dirt 90 degrees. The dump cart protects your shoulders and back from overwork.
10. Watering can
Watering can is a must-have item for your patio plants, whether, on your balcony or small backyard, it is generous enough to water several plants. You can easily accomplish a watering plan after a few refills under a standard kitchen tap. The pump design saves energy. The semi-transparent plastic allows you to know how much water is left in the can and how much water a plant needs. Moreover, it has 3 different spouts to fit different watering environments.
11. Garden hose
Unlike traditional garden hoses, this one is very clever and lightweight. Its length can be flexibly expanded triple longer with water pressure in the hose, shrink to the original length when water is turned off. The multi-purpose nozzle allows you to use it in different ways, such as washing cars, garden water play, watering plants, cleaning floors. It’s a good choice when you have a lot of plants to water in the backyard.
In conclusion, it is never too late to start a garden now. As long as you make a good garden plan before budgeting for your garden. There are a ton of garden tools on the market, which are designed based on various uses, convenience, and comforts. Therefore, you get to choose what suits your needs.
