Prepare your garden for summer: Essential upgrades
Summer is the prime time to enjoy your garden. To ensure this happens, preparing your garden correctly is crucial for a pleasant summer stay.
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Summer has arrived, bringing with it the need to care for your garden. While many neglect their gardens in winter, summer offers the best opportunity to enjoy them. Proper preparation is essential to maximize your garden's enjoyment during the upcoming summer. Here, we'll guide you on upgrades to consider for your garden.
Preparing Your Garden for Summer
The importance of preparing your garden for summer stems from the fact that neglecting it beforehand can harm its overall health. During winter, natural rainfall may sustain your garden adequately, pests are less active, and your plants can survive with minimal intervention.
Conversely, once summer begins, the responsibility for your garden shifts to your hands. Watering, pest control, and creating a comfortable garden environment become your responsibilities. Without several upgrades before summer, you won't be able to fully utilize your garden space. (credit: cookie_studio_freepik)
Key Products to Purchase
To strengthen your garden effectively, there are essential products to acquire. These products are necessary for both gardening and creating a comfortable outdoor living space.
1. Gardening Tools: Professional gardening tools are essential for maintaining a visually appealing garden. Among these tools, you can find electric saws, leaf blowers, electric sprayers, and work gloves, designed for simpler tasks. If you want to manage your garden independently, these tools are indispensable.
2. Appropriate Lighting: Given Israel's climate, the evening becomes the prime time to enjoy your garden. Therefore, appropriate garden lighting is essential. Options include a variety of solar-powered lanterns, which save energy, and numerous products designed to illuminate your garden effectively.
3. Irrigation Systems: If you ignored garden watering during the winter, you must prioritize it in summer. For efficient watering, consider an automatic irrigation system to ensure your plants receive the required amount of water daily. Remember, an automatic irrigation system saves more water compared to manual watering.
4. Suitable Plants: If there are specific plants you wish to grow in your garden, now is the perfect time to plant them. Choose plants suited to your garden's climate and ensure they receive adequate sunlight. Different climate conditions can accommodate various plants, allowing you to find suitable options for your garden.
Another vital step before summer is thorough spraying and cleaning in your garden. Weeds, debris piles, or stagnant water can become fertile ground for pests and insects. Uncontrolled plant growth may even attract snakes and exposed pipes can draw rodents and hedgehogs.
Therefore, before summer begins and these creatures resume full activity, it is advisable to ensure your garden is not seen as a convenient place to spend the summer months. Start with a thorough cleaning of the garden, weed clearing, and fence repairs. Then, conduct a thorough spraying to ensure that the coming months pass without these pests in your garden.
Decoration
Decoration items may not be essential, and you can indeed enjoy your garden without them. However, they add beauty to it, which is a shame to miss. Among the decoration items available, you can find water sprays, solar-powered water pumps, and a heat diffuser designed in a retro style that can return you to the old days. When choosing decoration items, remember that they will remain under the sky and exposed to extreme weather conditions, so their durability should be considered.
Garden Furniture
The last items we will discuss are garden furniture items essential for comfortable seating in the garden. Benches, chairs, and tables will allow you to sit comfortably in the garden. It is important to ensure that the garden furniture you purchase can withstand the intensity of the Israeli sun so that it lasts more than one season.
Conclusion
To fully utilize your garden during the summer months, it is advisable to prepare it properly. Purchasing gardening equipment, adapting garden furniture, installing lighting systems, and of course, thorough spraying and cleaning are all things to do now. At Garden Store, you can find a variety of items that will help you prepare your garden for the summer and turn it into the perfect place to spend the summer.
