Don't Kill Your Garden This Summer! Keep It Alive and Well

Depending upon your location, the intense heat and arid conditions this summer could cause a massive failure in your gardening efforts. Learn how to maintain a healthy vibrant home garden during the summer months.

Nothing is worse than spending time, money and energy on your home's yards and gardens only to discover that the harsh summer months are negatively impacting your efforts. If you enjoy spending time cultivating plants, trees and shrubberies around your home, there may be some questions and concerns about how to best maintain your gardens during the summer months. Even if you are not an ardent participant in planting and developing perfect landscaping, but simply enjoy clean, healthy plants in your yards, taking the time follow some best practices could mean the difference between keeping your garden alive and well and killing it off this summer.

Summer gardening tips are important because you want your plants to look good and live healthy lives. If this is not the case, then consider hiring the services of a gardener or professional landscaping company. The challenge of providing the best environment for the landscaping around you home is one that many home owners embrace. In addition to being able to feel great about a well tended home garden, ones property values are also likely to to reflect the lovely surroundings of the yards and gardens.

As important as why to pay extra attention to the garden this summer is when the following tips should be implemented. In order for ones gardens to be at their peak, consider instituting the following year round:

• Watering: plants hanging or in pots tend to dry quickly and may require more than one watering per day. If possible, consider setting up a drip system to ensure adequate hydration to all of your plants. Trees and shrubs that are less than four to five years old can suffer stress during the dry summer months. Again, the drip system would work well with these plants.
• Feeding: Proper preparation of soils, either in the pots or the grounds around your garden or yards, can help ensure a long successful growing season over the course of the summer. Some gardeners are tempted to over feed the gardens, but this can result in lush, fast growth that tapers off sooner than nature may intend.
• Weeding: This was one of those tasks that should have been done in the spring time and if done properly with a layer of weed suppressing mulch, much of the summer weeding efforts will be minimized. Even if everything was done correctly and on time, be sure to remove any new weed sprouts as they are discovered. Anything growing in your yard or garden that is not intended to be there robs your desired plants of water and nutrients.

During early summer, the following gardening tips should help most amateur gardeners get the most form their efforts to keep their plantings alive and well:

• Plant out summer bedding: The frost danger is now passed, so start planting your tender bedding.
• Support your plants before it's too late: Waiting until a plant droops in order to stake it is usually too late. For those plants shooting up, get them staked with materials easily found at your favorite home and garden supplier.
• Prune your tomatoes: Pinching off those outside shoots on your tomato plants will ensure bigger and tastier fruit in a month or so.

And finally, don't forget to perform the following acts during the late summer time:

• House Plants: Giving your indoor plants a week or two of summer holiday will provide them with the rejuvenation they need for another beautiful year of indoor living.
• Dead Head: Early evening hours are a perfect time to stroll around the grounds snipping off the dead blooms from the flowering plants. This action provides the plants with the impetus to bloom for longer periods of time during the summer months.
• Harvest Your Veggies: As soon as the fruits and vegetables are ready, pick them and get them eaten. If you have more than you can eat before they go to waste, freeze, can or put them up for consumption later in the year and over the winter months.

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Kara Taylor

Kara Taylor is a freelance writer for Gemplers.  She absolutely loves to write for them about gardening, and is a big fan of their sun hats.

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Let Bi Fold Doors To The Walls Of A Thing Of The Past

Most of the basic components that make up your house was almost exactly the same for many years. Walls, doors and windows, set up with varying degrees of innovation and change. As technology evolves on a few things have changed with modern glass production, this means that windows can be both revolutionary glazing larger and thinner, and the double allows large parts of the window let in light without allowing heat to escape. Fundamentally, however, a window is still a window even if it is larger and clearer than it would have been in the past. Bi fold doors on the other hand, is something else, blurs the distinction between the doors, walls and windows, playing the role of all three at once.

Sounds unlikely? Imagine a wall made entirely of glass panels held in a thin metal frame, reaching from floor to ceiling and a view over the entire length of one side of a room is open to the light and look outside. Quite spectacular, but now imagine being able to grasp the handle at one end of the wall and fold it over itself until the wall is essentially stacked at one end of the room, leaving wide open space and make the border between inside and outside completely obsolete.

Sounds unlikely again? Not at all. This is precisely what two times the doors are. Where once the best they could expect would be a great set of French windows thet could only be opened on nice summer days, is a solution that will radically change the shape and function of the room next to the garden variety.

Finally the dream of longtime unification of inner and outer life, bi folding doors are a stylish and attractive solution to the riddle of how to make a living space as open as possible and providing adequate protection against harsh climate. When the rain starts to fall or the wind picks up, just shoot the "wall" in place, and still enjoy the extra light and the sense of opening doors that provide twice, while dropping in the heat and the protection offered the modern glass and steel building.

Garden offices - a perfect outdoor space for a fitness studio

New modern society has been affected by the change in the way we use our homes, housing options are often not amenable to traditional lifestyle of the modern family. When, as before, the parents go to work, a modern working practices to see more and more employees working from home, this makes garden offices a great option and adds value to your property.

Working at home means a struggle to work productively on the kitchen table, or with a laptop balanced on the knee of the couch, trying not to be distracted by daytime TV. Some people end up resorting to sticking a spare desk in a messy ugly cramped room at home, however, these environments are not conducive to a good job and should not be used as a long-term option.

With working from home means the growing popularity of academic courses in creative disciplines in the style of graphics, art and interior design, a desk and a computer is no longer a student needs to complete all their work during holidays when the house for the summer.

For the modern family, garden offices are ideal for a wide range of logistical problems. The light and airy design of the exterior rooms are perfect for completing the work of the university and for parents who work from home, the chance to work away from home - and enjoy the peace and quiet that goes with it - while remaining close to know is a great combination.

Garden studios are a stunning addition to any outdoor space with a wide range of sizes available, families may consider a garden office larger size to accommodate two or more people working - it is an ideal solution for those who run a home business or families with a number of children who want to use the garden office to complete college work or school for the summer.