Lawn Care & Maintenance

Caring for your garden is a year-round task. Without constant maintenance, it can easily fall into disarray. Depending on the size of your garden, this could be quite a mammoth task, but with some forward planning and a little know how, your garden will be looking ship-shape for years.

With adequate garden tools and water management, you’ll have everything you need to start caring for your lawn. But what other things can you do to make sure your garden stays at its best for the longest? It turns out there are lots of things you can do to make the maintenance of your garden much easier, from the soil you use to the raised plant beds you select, it all counts toward enhancing your outdoor garden space.

What Are the Best Ways to Care For Your Garden?

Compost & soil

Even those with only the slightest tint of a green thumb know that there are different types of soil for different situations and environments. Let’s take a look at the most popular types of compost & soil available and how each will benefit you:

Topsoil – Adds nutritional richness to your plant and vegetable patches. Good topsoil helps to improve the habitat for plant growth and is an essential part of the process.

Mulch – Providing health benefits for your garden, mulch plays a significant role in the moisture retention of your soil. It helps to suppress weeds and even improves temperature regulation in soil.

Organic compost – Aids water retention and drainage, helps to prevent waterlogged conditions and regulates the pH balance of your soil, bringing acidic or alkaline soils closer to a neutral pH.

Sand/soil mix – This mix of sandy loam and topsoil is perfect for a contained plant bed because it helps to aerate the soil and improve water drainage.

Wood chips – Path chips and play bark are used to create a nice springy, natural garden path and as the bedding for a child’s play area, to help lessen any injuries that might occur due to unforeseen falls.

Lawn edging, sleepers & borders

To complete your garden style and help maintain a distinct border between the grass and plant beds, garden sleepers and borders are both a bold style choice and an efficient way to delineate these spaces in your garden.

There are many materials to choose from, with edging in a classic Victorian style to smooth, modern-looking natural sandstone border slabs. If you have any large garden buildings it is also an ideal way to tie together a stylistic aesthetic.

Planters & raised beds

With a raised plant bed, you will be able to create a controlled, yet natural environment and give your plants a space to grow free from damaging pests. These come in many forms, designed to fit into as wide a range of gardens as possible. Choose from rectangular raised beds and unusual hexagonal planters to display your favourite plants. There are tiered beds, corner-shaped units, and even some shaped like a trough.

To bring a truly unique style to your garden, use beds that raise your plants. This enables you to maintain them more easily, enhances your outdoor garden space and provides much-needed safety for plants.

Weed control

Keeping your lawn in good condition can sometimes be a nightmare. Invasive species of weed can easily penetrate your garden and gain root in the soil, ruining a once pristine patch of grass.

Luckily there are many ways to mitigate the spread of weeds in your garden. You can of course use weed killer, but this often involves using harsh chemicals that are harmful to plants and animals.

One of the best ways to control weed growth is to stop it before it can start. The easiest way to do this is by using a weed control membrane. These come in rolls and with a little bit of work can be cut and placed easily underneath plant beds and pathways to halt the ingress of weeds from the borders of your garden into the grass.

Keeping your garden in good condition can sometimes feel like a full-time job. You have to contend with varying weather conditions and invasive weeds and pests, and then there’s tending to your plants! By using our comprehensive lawn care range you’ll be able to get on top of garden maintenance easily, making short work of weeds and enabling you to enjoy the vibrancy and tranquillity of your garden.

If you feel like you need some inspiration or are completely lost when it comes to where to start when it comes to your garden, take a look at our lawn care for beginners guide and our beginners guide to gardening for plenty of hints, tips and tricks to inspire the green thumbed gardener inside you.

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