2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Very often, summer residents, especially beginners, do not calculate their strength and try to have time to do all the work in the country over the weekend. On the one hand, it is understandable, because then weekdays and it is impossible to escape to the dacha, on the other hand, on Sunday evening you simply fall from fatigue and there is no trace of happiness from owning a dacha. So how do you manage to do everything and not get exhausted over the weekend? In this article, I want to give some tips. I myself use these principles, since it is not easy to combine home, work, dacha and garden
Many of us, when we come to the dacha, try to grab onto everything at once, do a little there, there also a little, in the end we are exhausted, but we cannot see what we have done. And there is little sense. In an amicable way, you can start working in the country at home. Or in the office, if you have a free minute.
First of all, decide what you plan to plant on your site, sketch on a piece of paper an approximate plan for the location of beds, shrubs, trees and other plants. Trust me, this is not a waste of time. This procedure will allow you to "kill several birds with one stone." Namely: to plan the site, so that later you do not waste time already on the spot, deciding what and where to plant, plan in advance the necessary purchases of seeds, seedlings, seedlings, this will avoid unnecessary "headache" from buying unnecessary planting material and thinking "where adapt it?”, will allow to divide the work into priority and the one that can be postponed for later.
So, we roughly planned the site, decided what and where to plant. But while we have not yet left for the dacha, we can do one more important thing. Look through various magazines, reference books, online publications to get acquainted with the cultivation technology and find out if we need to buy some kind of fertilizing or fertilizer. If you have trees at your summer cottage, do not forget to buy lime, a bucket and a brush to whitewash the trees. Whitewashing trees is not a decorative operation, it is necessary for the health of our trees. We considered the whitewashing of trees and its meaning in more detail earlier here:
Now we roughly know the work plan, we know what we need to buy, remember what tools we have at our dacha. We figure out if anything else is needed. And we start to make a shopping list. We bring in everything that needs to be bought before leaving for the country: tools, work clothes and shoes (including gloves), garden tools, seedlings, seedlings, fertilizers, fertilizing, various containers, pest control products.
Try not to postpone your trip to the store (or to the garden market) until the day you leave for the summer cottage. Choose one or two days and after work go and buy everything you need (with the exception of seedlings and seedlings, it is better to buy them before leaving). Then go through everything at home and put it in packages: clothes - separately, fertilizers and fertilizing - separately. Tie the tools neatly. If you get a lot of different items in the bag, then do not be lazy, write a note for yourself listing the things in the bag and put it on top of the bag. This will save time finding the right one.
Then pack everything in a bag. Believe me, it will take a little time, but at the dacha you will not have to rummage in your bag looking for what you need.
By the way, it is also advisable to take care of buying food for the dacha on the eve of departure, having also previously compiled a list so as not to forget anything important. Even meat for barbecue (well, or chicken legs) can be bought the day before and prepared, it will marinate perfectly and will be tastier.
So, we are ready for a trip to the country. In the next article, we will draw up an approximate work plan in order to have time as much as possible, and relax, and not be exhausted over the weekend:
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