How To Facilitate The Work Of A Summer Resident?

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Summer cottage work is not easy. But not every summer resident, quite possibly, knows how to minimize their labor and physical costs on the site. There are some techniques that can facilitate summer cottage work

Spring care and watering

Spring is the hottest time for a gardener and summer resident. Here is the preparation of planting material, and care for watering, feeding. We will solve problems as they come. At this stage of spring work, it is important to choose good seeds and also a good watering system in the garden, checked to the smallest detail.

We recommend using in the country and equipping a drip irrigation system. It greatly facilitates the work of the gardener-gardener. The advantages of such a system are as follows. Drip irrigation in the country:

• assumes the flow of water to the very root of the plant, and not undermining these roots, but evenly distributing moisture over the soil;

• makes it possible to use it even in the daytime, in the hot rays of the sun, when water is especially important for plants;

• at the same time provides plant nutrition, which can be started additionally, and strictly dosed;

• saves not only water, but also energy when using it.

It should be reminded to summer residents that in the fall it is necessary to roll up the installed drip system in the garden and in the garden and remove it for the winter so that it does not freeze or deform. And so that in the spring it could be installed again in the country and with pleasure to use such a convenient device.

By the way, you can apply drip irrigation in early spring, since it is not afraid of light frosts. Before installing such a system, of course, you will have to buy some additional equipment, but the costs are worth it.

Spring worries and seeds

In order to choose good seeds that will bring the summer resident not headaches, but an excellent harvest, which will just right to boast to the neighbors in the country, you need to observe the following nuances:

• you should buy seed only in special stores (and not from sellers on the streets and markets), where you can be sure of the quality of the goods;

• even if you are confident in the store and its products, you should independently check the expiration date of the seeds and it is not advisable to take those that are suitable, but the period for planting in the ground is coming to an end;

• An experienced seller in a seed store will definitely tell a novice summer resident and gardener when to plant these seeds, how to thin out and water them.

Other helpful tips to make your summer cottage work easier

Removing organic waste from the site is very laborious and costly. These include: grass cut from the lawn, branches of cut trees, bushes, leaves, dried flowers from a flower garden, food waste from the kitchen table. For such garbage, it is better to build a large box in the backyard of the site, into which all this garbage must be dumped. Over time, it will be an excellent compost, fertilizer for feeding plants in the country.

Once and for all, make a row spacing in the beds of material that will prevent the weeds from sprouting on the site, which you have to fight every year. You can make the aisle from tiles, roofing material, boards, old carpets, a layer of sand, sawdust.

If there is a lawn on the lawn of the site, it is better to make it round or oval in shape, and not fancy geometric, which afterwards will be difficult to trim quickly and efficiently with a lawn mower. Also, you should not make life difficult for yourself by laying stones on the lawn, other large objects that will have to be mowed not with a lawn mower, but with garden shears.

Try not to dig up summer cottages at all in the new summer season. You can replace their digging with shallow loosening and the use of a good excellent layer of organic material in the aisle. Such mulching will save you from frequent weeding, excess overgrowth of weeds in the soil and excessive watering.

On flower beds, do not plant plants that are difficult to care for. For example, replace a tea rose with a park, miniature, ground-covering. For these types of roses, cutting and covering them for the winter is not required.

Do not forget about the presence of coniferous representatives in the assortment of plants for a summer residence and a garden. There are many types of them and from all of them you can make special compositions. And coniferous trees and shrubs require a minimum of care, and they decorate your site all year round, unlike deciduous bushes and trees.