How to Tend a Garden

You've planted a beautiful flower or vegetable garden. Now you want to make sure it grows properly. You envision healthy flowers with colorful petals and full grown vegetables ripe for eating. Follow these tips to tend a garden and keep your plants healthy.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Fertilize your plants. The nutrients help the plants grow large and healthy. Use a good compost like manure. Fertilize at the beginning of the planting season to give your plants a good start.

2. Research the needs of the plants. Some need light and some need shade. All will need sunlight, but different amounts of it. Provide the plants with the right amount of light and watch them grow toward the sun.

3. Water your garden regularly. Keep the ground moist when you first plant. Water it weekly after that. New plants need water to grow and become established. Plants without water will wither and die.

4. Dead head your plants. This means pinch off the dead flowers so new flowers can grow. Also pull out the weeds. Weeds can take over your garden and kill your plants.

5. Loosen the soil using a cultivator so the plants can grow. Make sure you have good soil for growing plants. Plants grown in clay struggle, but plants grown in healthy soil will flourish.

6. Mulch the garden. Mulch keeps the moisture in and reduces the weeds. After planting water the garden and then add mulch while the soil is still wet.

7. Spray for insects or the bugs may eat your plants. You can even grow certain plants together to keep bugs away.

Tips & Warnings

• Keep tending to your garden on a regular basis so your plants don't die.