Even if you do not have enough time, money and knowledge, following these tips you can turn your garden into the most beautiful place on earth.

Many budding gardeners dream of transforming their new plot into the Garden of Eden, but when faced with a real, often neglected plot, their resolve vanishes under the weight of the work ahead.

Every corner of the garden seems to require immediate attention. And this is often combined with a limited budget and lack of knowledge.

If you have a wonderful idea, but no plan at all, you risk spending a lot of energy and not a step closer to the garden of your dreams.

If this is your first season as a gardener, here is the first and most necessary step. Especially, this applies to those people who bought summer cottages or residential buildings with a local area. And usually such areas have an unkempt, a little abandoned look.

1. Cleaning. Of course, this is not what I would like to hear and do in the first place. But this is really the most important thing. Start on the lawn, even if there are more weeds than grass, mow it regularly.

In the spring, be sure to remove dried grass and debris left over from autumn and winter. Even if the lawn is a little exposed, it will be easy to arrange a quiet resting place on it next to trees and bushes.

2. Arrange weeding of all existing flower beds. If you're a beginner and don't know if the weed is in front of you, that's okay. Take a photo of an unknown plant and ask on the gardeners forum, experienced gardeners will surely help you.

3. Create a clear edge around the flower beds. This will create a clear boundary between the beds and the grass. Take a flat-edged shovel and "cut" along the edge of the flower bed. Here you can get creative and make the lines gently curved.

If the grass in your area is dense and dense, this can be a difficult job, so you should not expand your beds in the first season.

You can use edging material, but many people do not like its appearance, and it does not always work as expected. The mowed lawn and mulch in the flower beds look very neat and fresh.

4. Mulch. If you have few plants, mulching becomes even more important. Mulch creates a tidy appearance, but more importantly, it suppresses weeds and helps retain moisture in the soil.

Do not make the mulch layer thicker than 10 cm and leave a space around the base of each plant.

5. Lawn along the paths. As an eyeliner, edging along the paths will make your garden look complete. If the lawn has grown too large it will be difficult to tidy it up, but after basic trimming, the neat look can be maintained relatively easily.

You may ask, what about gardening? What about the flowers? Of course, the previous steps are not as enjoyable as growing colorful flowers, but they are essential to keep your garden looking dignified.

If you have a limited time or budget, these are the top priorities to focus on.

6. Priorities. Oftentimes, when there is so much work ahead, it can be difficult to know what to do first. Many people do a little here and there, but as a result, no part of the garden looks attractive. Decide where you want to start.

Pay attention to what you see every day, often several times. This is usually the front door and the area in front of it. It is often enough to remove unnecessary details and put several containers with annual flowers.

It's okay to start your journey to your magnificent garden with slow steps. It may well turn out that in the first season you will only clear the space in front of the entrance and make it your routine to care for the new site.

Just clean and maintain your garden regularly and you'll know if you really enjoy gardening. To get started, you can plant some easy-care shrubs such as boxwood. If there are already plants on the site, start by keeping them attractive.

If cleaning the garden did not scare you away, and your heart beats faster with anticipation of further work, you cannot wait to plant even more plants and can take care of them, then you are a born gardener! And now you have the next steps.

7. Determine your style. Do you like formal and well-kept gardens or informal ones? Do you love symmetry or crave the funky clutter of a cottage garden?

Look at pictures of gardens of different styles, this will help you decide what you like.

It can be frustrating for novice gardeners that the intended roses, lilies and peonies cannot grow successfully in their intended places.

However, a shady garden can also be charming and varied.
When assessing the conditions, consider what you already have and what needs to be changed, perhaps it would be better to get rid of some plants.

9. Tell everyone. As soon as you understand what you want and need, tell your neighbors and friends about it. The plant you are looking for may be in the possession of a person who wants to get rid of it.

10. Enjoy the beauty. The gardener has to learn to wait for results for years. And one of the dangers is the tendency to see only what will happen in the future and miss the beauty of the present moment.

Don't let this happen. Week after week, enjoy what is in front of you, rejoice in what you have already achieved.

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This information will be useful not only for those who first decided to acquire beds, but also for experienced gardeners: remembering the basics is always not superfluous. And those who have already harvested the first early harvest can re-sow by picking up the appropriate early ripening crops.

Peas (as opposed to heat-loving beans) are best sown early, as soon as there is an opportunity to work the soil.

There are two main groups of peas - shelling and sugar peas. Hulling varieties are grown for green peas, it is suitable for canning, sugar varieties - for obtaining unripe beans (shoulder blades). Mainly unripe seeds of brain varieties are used for food.

Sowing

Before sowing, pea seeds are exposed to air-thermal heating, which activates the energy of germination, germination, and further promotes the growth and development of plants. Seeds are sown at a distance of 4-5 cm in a row and 18 cm in a row spacing. The seeding depth is 3-5 cm (on black soil), 8-10 cm (on sandy soils). It is necessary to sow seeds in profusely watered grooves, literally in the mud, mulching on top with loose soil.

Growing features

Pea seedlings tolerate slight frosts, but they suffer greatly from extreme heat and dry winds.

Our advice:

For tall varieties of peas (asparagus varieties reach a height of 2.5 m), it is necessary to install a trellis.

Peas bear fruit even in the semi-shady parts of the plot, being content with sunlight for only 6-8 hours a day. Flowering begins 30-55 days after sowing. The pods can be harvested “on the shoulder” 8-12 days after flowering - the leaves of the sugar varieties remain juicy at this time, and the seeds are just beginning to form. Green peas are harvested 12-15 days after flowering. It is very important to remove ripe pods in time to enable others to ripen faster.

What do you need to know?

• In dry weather, the beans crack and the seeds crumble, and in wet weather they are affected by fungal diseases.
• Pea varieties are pollinated, so if you have a desire to keep the variety pure and get seeds for subsequent sowing, place beds with different varieties of peas at a distance of at least 25 m.

Beans are more demanding on lighting and heat than peas, therefore they are sown on well-lit fertile beds when the soil has already warmed up enough.

Bean varieties are also asparagus (they are eaten at the stage of young, not roughened shoulder blades) and cereals. Beans for grain are less whimsical in leaving.

If you want to grow a delicacy, choose asparagus beans. They will serve as a constant source of vitamin products until the very autumn frosts.

Our advice:

If you do not have the ability or desire to support the climbing beans, choose bush varieties.

Sowing and cultivation features

The beans are sown with seeds previously soaked in a bright pink solution of potassium permanganate (at night - for morning sowing, at 7-8 hours in the afternoon - for evening sowing). Curly varieties are sown in an ordinary way according to the scheme 45x20-25 cm and bush varieties 25-30x10-15 cm. The seeding depth is 3-4 cm. Seedlings appear 4-6 days after sowing. In the phase of the 1st true leaf, the seedlings are thinned out. During the growing season, the soil in rows and aisles is loosened 3-4 times, removing weeds.

What do you need to know?

• Beans are a fairly drought-resistant crop, but in dry years they need watering.
• Beans, like peas, are an excellent precursor for most vegetable crops, they enrich the soil with nitrogen.

Be sure to plant very healthy and unpretentious spinach. It is sown in spring as a precursor for late-planted heat-loving vegetables, in summer after harvesting early-maturing crops, extending sowing until mid-August.

Sowing

It is desirable to carry out the first sowing as early as possible, and the subsequent ones - every 20-30 days. Spinach seeds are soaked in clean water for 1-2 days at room temperature, then dried until they flow. The seeding depth is 2-3 cm on heavy soil and 4 cm on light soil.

Our advice:

It is convenient to sow spinach with ribbons with seeds glued with starch paste: 2-3 cm in a row and 15-18 cm between rows.

Growing features

After sowing, it is advisable to roll the soil so that it settles, and mulch it with peat or humus. Seedlings appear in 7-12 days. 2-3 days after the emergence of seedlings, the aisles are loosened and the seedlings are thinned, leaving a distance of 4-5 cm between them. The second and subsequent thinning is carried out as the plants grow. Care consists in the timely loosening of the soil and removal of weeds.

In dry and hot weather, watering is required. In dry soil and at high temperatures, spinach begins to shoot.

Depending on the variety, spinach is technically ripe 14-35 days after germination. Harvested selectively - the most powerful plants, pulling them out entirely, or the most developed leaves from different plants, carefully cutting off so as not to damage the rest.

What do you need to know?

• Fresh spinach is poorly stored, so it should be removed immediately before use.
• It can be prepared for future use, since it is perfectly preserved frozen.

Our advice:

If you enjoy a grown spinach variety, leave a few plants to bloom and pick the seeds that ripen in time.

Zucchini or zucchini

Also, be sure to sow zucchini or zucchini, and in 45-65 days after germination, you will get a harvest.

Growing features

Zucchini you can grow seedlings one plant at a time in cups and plant immediately with a clod of earth, without disturbing the root system. In open ground, seeds are sown according to the scheme 80x80 or 100x100 cm, 2-3 seeds per nest. The seeding depth is 1-2 cm. Seedlings appear 7-10 days after sowing.

When the first true leaves appear, the seedlings are thinned out, leaving one of the most powerful plants in the nest.

The main care is the timely removal of weeds and loosening of the soil. In dry and hot summers, plants are watered 1-2 times a week with plenty of warm water under the root, avoiding getting it on the leaves.

What do you need to know?

• Zucchini prefer organic-rich soils with a high nitrogen content.
• Zucchini even more demanding not only to the soil, but also to light, heat, moisture. When shaded, their pollen does not ripen and the number of ovaries sharply decreases. On the other hand, zucchini also has a big advantage - the phase of the beginning of seed formation in the fruit occurs 1.5-2 weeks later than that of zucchini, so the pulp retains its delicate texture for a long time.
• Young fruits lie in the refrigerator for up to two months, ripe fruits are stored until spring. You can cook the same dishes from them as from zucchini, and use the seeds as pumpkin seeds.

Our advice:

If you want to get the seeds of zucchini and zucchini - leave the smoothest and most beautiful fruit for full ripening. Then select the seeds, rinse them from the pulp and dry them, and from the juicy tasty pulp prepare a stew or caviar.

What is a vegetable garden without beets? It will take 60–85 days to grow dead root crops for winter storage.

Sowing

Seeds are sown in open ground from the 3rd decade of April to the end of June. Therefore, if you did not manage to sow the beets in the early stages - do not be upset, you still have time. In addition, root crops formed during the summer sowing period are juicier, sweeter and better stored.

It should be borne in mind that with the June sowing dates, the plants need frequent watering.

To speed up the emergence of seedlings, soaked seeds are sown as soon as single roots appear. Sowing is carried out in an ordinary way according to the scheme 30x8-12 cm.The seeding depth is 1-1.5 cm.

Growing features

Beet shoots appear in 7-12 days. They are thinned out, starting from the phase of the 1st true leaf, gradually increasing the distance between the plants, until the beginning of the root formation phase. After thinning, it is advisable to water, and then loosen the soil and slightly huddle the plants.

Our advice:

The removed plants can be used as seedlings, planting them for growing, and the green leaves will do for salad making.

The main techniques for caring for plants are removing weeds, loosening the soil and watering. Beets are harvested selectively when the root crops reach a diameter of 3-3.5 cm. And you should not rush to harvest the root crops intended for storage, they grow intensively in the fall, reaching standard sizes.

Mass harvesting of root crops is carried out before the onset of the first autumn frosts, even at a temperature of –1 ° C, they are damaged and poorly stored. Dig the beets in dry weather. The leaves are cut 1-1.5 cm above the root crop head, the main and lateral roots are not cut off. Root crops are stored at a temperature of 1-3 ° C in basements or other rooms, laying them in layers in small boxes and sprinkling with sand.

Our advice:

Beet seeds can be obtained by planting healthy and even beet roots preserved in the cellar or purchased from the market in the spring. It is necessary to shorten the central root by a third and plant it on a garden bed with fertile soil, observe the basic agricultural practices in the summer - watering and feeding.

What do you need to know?

Beetroot is a cold-resistant and rather shade-tolerant plant. Therefore, if you have an empty area where sunlight is only 6 hours a day, sow beets on it - she will be comfortable and cozy there.

A "miniature pharmacy" in your garden can be a familiar and familiar carrot. The timing of its sowing depends on the purpose of the product.

Sowing late-ripening varieties in June will allow harvesting for winter storage, and to obtain early bunch of products, early-ripening carrot varieties are sown before winter (October - November).

Sowing

In the spring, the soil on the bed is well leveled, before sowing the seeds, they are rolled (compacted), rows are marked and grooves are made: for early varieties - at a distance of 15-20 cm, for mid- and late-ripening - 20-25 cm. Sow only in moist soil. The seeding depth is 1-1.5 cm. After sowing, the soil is again slightly compacted and mulched with dry soil (layer 0.5 cm). When sowing with rolling, shoots appear on the 8-10th day, and without it - on the 18-21st.

Growing features

Seedlings are thinned out in the phase of the 1st true leaf, leaving the plants at a distance of 3-6 cm from each other. Further care consists in the timely removal of weeds, loosening the soil and watering. During the growing season, the soil is loosened 2-3 times, and also after each rain or watering.

What do you need to know?

• To avoid the appearance of green, bitter-tasting heads in root crops, the carrots must be slightly spud during weeding.
• It is advisable to plant onions in the aisles of carrots, it will protect the plants from carrot flies.

White cabbage

White cabbage can be grown both through seedlings and by sowing seeds in open ground - at a distance of 30-45 cm in a row, with a row spacing of 70 cm. Depending on the variety, the crop can be obtained in 65-100 days.

Growing features

Throughout the growing season, cabbage requires high soil and air moisture. But it does not tolerate waterlogging of the soil, especially long-term, it begins to die off roots or a dangerous disease develops - bacteriosis. Therefore, in wetlands, cabbage should be planted on ridges or high ridges.

Care consists in timely watering, removing weeds and loosening the soil. The cabbage is harvested when the heads of cabbage reach the color and size characteristic of the variety.

It is impossible to be late in harvesting cabbage, as the heads of cabbage can crack.

What do you need to know?

• Cabbage is a tasty morsel for pests and slugs, but this is not a reason to give up the opportunity to try to grow it.
• To protect the seedlings from insects, soak them overnight before planting in open ground in a solution of actara.
• Hyssop or mint planted around the perimeter of cabbage beds will protect you from slugs.

In your first vegetable garden, you can try growing these main crops and many others, depending on your tastes. With some plants, you will get a good harvest, with others, you may fail. But never give up! Stay curious, active, look for answers to questions, master the agricultural techniques of failed plants over and over again - and you will definitely succeed. Good luck and fruitful season!

Svetlana Vnukova, s. Russian Tishki, Kharkiv region
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Hello. Today I will tell you how to work with a Gardener at a distance.

So, Sad, the same shopping mall Gardener, is a wholesale and retail market for clothing and footwear, goods for children, goods for hunting, fishing and tourism, pets, as well as flowers, seeds, seedlings, etc.

Many Muscovites have probably heard about it, but I'm not from Moscow, so not so long ago I came across this wonderful store.

It was a weekend, my family and I decided to go shopping, finding nothing, went to the showroom, found a couple of interesting T-shirts, but the price did not make me happy, and we went home frustrated, without shopping. But the T-shirt, so deeply sunk into my soul that I started looking for it on alika, taobao and 1688, the price there was a little lower than in the showroom, but the delivery is long, but I need it as soon as possible, but cheaper, it caught fire! And so, I started scouring the Internet, a little searching for iiii, here is the first link to the seller from the Garden (yes, many pavilions have their own VK pages, ok, insta, but the coolest ones send mailings to the WhatsApp and then, not to everyone) Through one seller, I found another, through him, a few more and started spinning!

Laikala everything that I liked, so as not to lose, when I decided on the order, I began to look for an intermediary, here I was lucky, my husband found a good one with 10%. Well, I also started to place an order.

How does this happen?

1. Upload photos of the things you like to the album
2. On each photo you sign the color, quantity, size, price and the main PAVILION ADDRESS
3. Consider the order amount + 10% to the intermediary + the amount for delivery to the shopping center (transport company)
4. Send the full amount to the intermediary
5. The middleman goes to buy your goods ( it is important to be in touch at the time of redemption, because your item may not be there, or a different color, size)
6. Write your full name, city, passport series number and phone number
7. You are waiting for the message.

• If you decide to engage in buying and selling seriously, then I highly recommend buying a supplier base. Why? By hand, you will navryatli find all the pavilions that are in social networks - this is the first. Second, there are a lot of scammers, the supplier base filters out real sellers and crooks. The third is convenience, time saving. Fourth, there are lists of luxury, private mailing lists.
• The same product costs differently from different sellers, look for 2-4 sellers with this product and compare prices
• The garden is more aimed at wholesale, look for sellers who trade in retail if you are not dialing a size range. Or collect rows together with other buyers at a wholesale price. Vk is full of groups with the collection of ranks. Remember in bulk - cheaper.
• Intermediary is a person to whom you give 10% (as a rule) of the order amount. For what? For the fact that he runs, buys your product, some intermediaries collect ranks themselves.
• Before placing an order, write to the seller to send a photo from the market. Photos on the Internet and in reality sometimes do not match.
• Paint everything to the smallest detail, what kind of fabric, size, size, etc.
• I recommend that you always have a stock of each item, since one seller simply may not have it in stock
• Make an order of at least 5 tr, otherwise it is not profitable
• Delivery - Russian post, pack, sdek. I use Peck, fast and not very expensive. 7-10 days and I have the package in Barnaul. 3 kg - 450 rubles, pay on receipt.

That's all, thanks for your attention)

If you have any questions, ask, I will be happy to answer)

How does an experienced gardener differ from a beginner? The fact that I managed to try a lot and draw conclusions based on my mistakes. Knows what life hacks will help to grow a good harvest and what is suitable for his particular site. Many subtleties affect the yield of plantings: good watering, the timing of planting and processing, the tools you use. But there are still some secrets to try - what if they help you too.

Simple Tips to Make Your Harvest Better

Make weed fertilizer

Clover, dandelions, wood lice and other herbs can be good fertilizer for your garden beds. They can be used to prepare organic food. A particularly valuable raw material for fertilizers is nettle. In the process of decomposition, it releases a lot of nitrogen, which stimulates the growth of other plants.

You can also make liquid dressing from herbs. To do this, soak a kilogram of grass in 10 liters of hot water. After a day, water the beds with a solution at the rate of 4 liters per square meter. ()

Build snail traps

Are there many snails in the beds? Catch them in plastic bottles. Put pieces of laundry soap or water with sugar in bottles - this will help the snails crawl faster. Another option is to sprinkle the area between the beds and the plants with dry materials such as ash or sand. ().

Soak onions before planting

Soak the onion well in salt water before planting. For 5 liters, you need 100 grams of salt. The saline solution makes the bulbs more resistant to fungi, pests and various diseases. You can process it on the day the onions are planted or on the eve of planting; you need to keep the onions in the solution for 4 hours.

To prepare the solution, rock or sea salt is suitable. It is recommended to pre-clean the husk of the bulbs.

Soak cucumbers in milk

To make the cucumbers taste softer, you can soak them in warm and fresh milk before planting and germinate. It is better to wrap the seeds in a damp cloth. Check the quality of the seeds before soaking. To do this, immerse them in a solution of salt - 1 teaspoon per liter of water - and stir. Empty seeds will remain floating on top, and quality seeds will sink to the bottom.

Cut off the bottom leaves of the tomatoes

Two to three days before planting in the ground, cut off the lower leaves of the tomatoes. It is believed that the lower leaves are in contact with the soil, which means that they are always moist. Because of this, the leaves can become sick and transmit the disease to the entire plant. In addition, such leaves almost do not take part in photosynthesis, therefore they are useless for the plant. Leaves can also be torn off over grown fruits. ().

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Do not water immediately after planting

The first two weeks after planting the plants in the ground, gardeners do not recommend watering them abundantly - this "drought" will stimulate the growth of the root system, so the plants will survive the summer drought easier. Also remember not to water the plants in hot weather, so that the leaves are not exposed to sunlight.

Use safe biostimulants

Stimulants will help plants grow faster. Use safe, proven tools. For example, "Epin" or "Baikal". Epin is an environmentally friendly product. It accelerates seed germination, cuttings and seedlings take root faster, plants better resist diseases. The basis of the drug "Baikal" is bacteria that suppress the putrefactive microflora, so the plant grows better and gives a higher yield.

It is worth spraying the plants for the first time a week before planting and repeat before transplanting the seedlings into the ground.

Plant nasturtium next to tomatoes

Plant Alaska nasturtium next to the tomatoes. White butterflies do not like this variety, so they will not fly to tomatoes. You can also plant nasturtium next to other plantings to repel pests. For example, next to pumpkin, cabbage, cucumbers, beans and pumpkin. In addition, the flower's nectar will attract beneficial insects. (

You bought yourself a garden plot and what next? How to understand all the subtleties and nuances of this skill? It's great if you have competent neighbors or relatives who can suggest. And if not? Let's try to figure it out together.

Decide what you want from your garden. If this is a golf course, plant plain lawn grass. If you want to make a garden out of your plot, pay attention to seedlings. Think about which fruits will delight you - an apple tree, a plum, a cherry, a cherry, or maybe a peach or apricot. If you want to collect not only fruits, but also vegetables from your site, it is advisable for you to divide it in half. The first is for trees, the second is for vegetables. I do not recommend mixing both in the same area, because the shade from the trees will prevent your vegetables from growing.

If you decide to grow your own vegetables using seeds, pay attention to their appearance. It is best to purchase seeds from specialized stores. If you buy seeds on the market from people you little known, then you risk growing far from what is indicated on the label. Moreover, the seeds require additional processing and care. Before planting, it is recommended to soak and germinate them for better germination. Usually, out of 30 seeds, only 20-25 germinate. Also, check the expiration date of the seed and the manufacturer. The back of the package must contain the manufacturer's coordinates, address and contact numbers.

The easiest way is to grow vegetables using seedlings. The likelihood of getting a good harvest is much higher than using seeds. When choosing seedlings, pay attention to their appearance. High-quality, properly grown seedlings, the stem is thick, the color is bright, juicy, closer to dark green. If the plant is tall, pale green in color with a thin stem, then it was grown in an insufficiently lit room. From such seedlings, you probably will not get a meager harvest.

The most common and readily available vegetables are tomatoes (tomatoes), cucumbers, peppers, onions, cabbage and potatoes. You need to be aware of the peculiarities of planting and growing these vegetables.

There are many varieties of tomatoes. There are undersized plants, there are tall ones, those that need to be tied up. If you don't visit your summer cottage too often, plant undersized plants. They require less maintenance. Decide on the variety using the appearance of the package. Whether it will be massive fruits, or small, red or pink. Fleshy or watery - you decide.

Cucumbers require abundant watering. They love very much to be fertilized. There are also many varieties, there are early and late, massive and small, prickly and smooth. They are divided into ground and greenhouse. Ground ones are those that grow in the open air. Usually, they require less maintenance. They are different in shape. You can plant with equal success and seeds and seedlings.

Potatoes are planted in special holes - holes one potato at a time, after 15-20 cm. Potatoes, in general, are an unpretentious vegetable. 2 or 3 times you will have to huddle it, that is, make small mounds of earth above each bush. Potatoes are harvested when the tops begin to turn yellow and wither, after flowering. If you want early potatoes, you can dig up the bush after flowering, without waiting for the tops to turn yellow.

There are several types of onions. Onion is the one we are all used to, and which is sold in abundance in our markets. Leek, batun, chives - these varieties are planted for vitamin greens. Onions love good watering. Otherwise, it becomes bitter and unsuitable for eating.

Cabbage. This vegetable is best planted in a sunny place and watered abundantly. The most common types of varieties are white, red, Brussels (with small heads of cabbage), kohlrabi (round like a ball stump), broccoli, Peking (with delicate and tasty leaves), colored (from delicate inflorescences).

Bulgarian pepper and bitter. Never plant them next to each other! Otherwise, pollinate, and the bell pepper will become bitter. Pepper loves sunny places and abundant watering.