Are You A Lazy Gardener?
Are you a lazy person type? It doesn’t mean you need to give up the garden that you run. Here are most perfect gardening tips for a person like you.
- The bucket
You can purchase a garden tote that’s made of fabric and fits into a five-gallon bucket. It has loads of storage pockets and you can carry your trowel, pruning shears, garden gloves, seeds, a knife, popsicle sticks for marking plants. Keep a bag of bone meal in the large center of the bucket so it will be on hand when you plant bulbs or new plants. - Soaker hoses
They work well and are more environmentally friendly. You just need to leave them in the garden all the time and only remove them to till up the soil, then put them right back. Soakers are a better way of watering your plants because wet leaves can lead to disease and mildew. - A mailbox
If you too lazy to walk all the way back to the ‘Bucket’ in the barn, put up an old rural mailbox on a post in the middle of my perennial bed in the front. You can keep an extra pair of pruning shears, gloves and a hand trowel in it. Keep some mosquito repellant in the bucket and the mailbox is another good idea. Put decals or paint decorative designs on your mailbox if you want it to blend in more with your garden. - Round up
It kills only the plants you put it on. It does this by preventing the cells from dividing. It breads down into the soil and does not harm the environment. You can also use it for large areas of grass that has invaded my flower beds. Just be careful not to apply it on a windy day as it will be hard to control. It kills what it touches. If you have a large area of grass or weeds, you can use an old sponge mop to apply the Round-up. - Weed prevention
Preventing weeds is helpful for the lazy gardener. In spring you just need to pull weeds, trowel in a little bone meal, compost, composted manure and then sprinkle it with some Preen. Then, lay a layer or three of newspaper down and cover that with cedar mulch. - Plants
Perennials make gardening a little easier, but they aren’t work-free. Research your plants before you buy them if you want the least labor intensive perennials. Perennial ground covers are perfect for lazy gardeners. Sedums, Myrtle or Vinca, Violets, Sweet Woodruff and Bishop’s Weed all fill areas in quite nicely and require very little attention. They are invasive, however, so keep this in mind. They may take over an area too fast for your needs.
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Plant food is one way to be a “lazy Gardner” personally I use mephedrone that I buy online, when watering the plants with this amazing super plant feed, be careful not to water the steam.