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Summer is in full swing and the gardens are covered with more beautiful flowers than each other. However, it is still too early to put the tools down and laze around watching them flourish. Because it is a weekend house, because you come back from several weeks of vacation or simply because gardening is only one of your many activities, your flower beds lovingly set up at the start of the season, they probably changed shape once summer was well established. The flowers of the beginning of summer have wilted, the perennials have grown, the annuals have been sown, the weeds have emerged from the woods, the lawn has gained ground in the massifs ... In short, a nice chaos has settled in which it's time to put your house in order if you want to enjoy a pleasant massif until the end of summer. Difficulty : easy Cost : free Tools required : - a spade - a transplanter (small shovel) - a pruner - a watering can
A clear border, and here is your massif which already finds a good part of its past splendor! To contain the herbs that invaded it and effectively redraw its limits, nothing like a spade. It is the most physical step, but also the most rewarding.
Once wilted, your plants generously offer seeds that you can collect for sowing the following year. Collect them when they are dry. Use a container when picking, as the seeds tend to spread when trying to pick them.
Cutting the wilted flowers is a long-term and often returned task, but it is also the guarantee to benefit from a flowering over time, because being rid of the wilted flowers stimulates the plants and incites them to produce new buds.
Our beds always welcome uninvited plants. You have to do with it, and try to have fun with this weeding activity. To be precise and effective, nothing like manual weeding or using a small shovel.
Even by regularly cutting back the wilted flowers, you cannot prevent spontaneous sowing. In some cases, they will be welcome, in others, you will find them intrusive. Do not hesitate to sacrifice a good number of plants thus arrived naturally in your massif, because each one needs a real vital space to flourish. Even if after this grooming your bed appears stripped, this impression will only last a while!
Take advantage of the space thus freed up to install new plants, either plants that are too cramped that you will have collected in your bedding and to which you will thus give the space they need to grow, or new plants bought in garden centers that will bloom later and allow you to enjoy flowers throughout the season.
Water the transplanted plants to allow them to resume.
Clear the perennials that have already flowered. Their contribution to the massif is no longer of great interest, and by reducing them thus you encourage the arrival of new shoots or even a new flowering.
In the garden, as in all things in life, there are good reflexes to acquire! Composting, that is the storage of green waste for transformation into compost, is one of them. By adopting this practice, you reduce the share of waste going to conventional channels (recycling center, incineration, etc.) and you create a new plant material that will enrich your land a few months later!
Step 1 - Redraw the borders
A clear border, and here is your massif which already finds a good part of its past splendor! To contain the herbs that invaded it and effectively redraw its limits, nothing like a spade. It is the most physical step, but also the most rewarding.Step 2 - Harvest the seeds for your next sowing
Once wilted, your plants generously offer seeds that you can collect for sowing the following year. Collect them when they are dry. Use a container when picking, as the seeds tend to spread when trying to pick them.Step 3 - Cut the wilted flowers
Cutting the wilted flowers is a long-term and often returned task, but it is also the guarantee to benefit from a flowering over time, because being rid of the wilted flowers stimulates the plants and incites them to produce new buds.Step 4 - Weed!
Our beds always welcome uninvited plants. You have to do with it, and try to have fun with this weeding activity. To be precise and effective, nothing like manual weeding or using a small shovel.Step 5 - Thicken the plants
Even by regularly cutting back the wilted flowers, you cannot prevent spontaneous sowing. In some cases, they will be welcome, in others, you will find them intrusive. Do not hesitate to sacrifice a good number of plants thus arrived naturally in your massif, because each one needs a real vital space to flourish. Even if after this grooming your bed appears stripped, this impression will only last a while!Step 6 - Transplant small plants into the free spaces
Take advantage of the space thus freed up to install new plants, either plants that are too cramped that you will have collected in your bedding and to which you will thus give the space they need to grow, or new plants bought in garden centers that will bloom later and allow you to enjoy flowers throughout the season.Step 7 - Water
Water the transplanted plants to allow them to resume.Step 8 - Clear the perennials that have already flowered
Clear the perennials that have already flowered. Their contribution to the massif is no longer of great interest, and by reducing them thus you encourage the arrival of new shoots or even a new flowering.Step 9 - Bring the plant waste to the compost
In the garden, as in all things in life, there are good reflexes to acquire! Composting, that is the storage of green waste for transformation into compost, is one of them. By adopting this practice, you reduce the share of waste going to conventional channels (recycling center, incineration, etc.) and you create a new plant material that will enrich your land a few months later!
