Guilty that you've not given enough time to take care of your garden last year? If this is so, there is still so much time that you can start anew and prepare a blossoming, healthy garden this 2016. HGTVGardens shares just some of the simplest ideas on how you can start new goals for your garden this 2016.
1. Grow Something Tasty
This is given for us to enjoy more our hardwork in tilling and taking care of our garden beds, we must plant something that we could enjoy afterwards. Flowering plants may make our garden a spectacle to see or make us feel renewed but plant foods excites us more especially if you've been able to grow a crop that is hard to find anywhere and is delicious.
Garden Tips: "When you grow veggies and fruits, choose varieties that you won't find at the grocery store, like blue potatoes, striped tomatoes or colorful carrots. 'Purple Haze' carrot features purple edges surrounding an orange center. The purple color fades when cooked in water, but remains with quick cooking methods like stir fry. 'Purple Haze' (Daucus carota) is a full-size carrot and a 2006 All-America Selections winner."
2. Create a Garden Escape
This is like a secret place where you can relax, enjoy your tea out with nature. Why not do this now? This is a place where you can refresh your stressed out mind and even have an afternoon nap. Include in this secret area a bench or a hammock. To make it even a simple retreat site is the addition of fountains or a manmade tiny pond with kois.
3. Try Something New
Why not try to grow something new this 2016? Orchids, a wild plant, the new bulbs you saw in the garden market, whatever it is, try it on your garden and make use of that time, to learn more on how to better grow the plant.
Garden Tips: "Grow something new each year you garden. It might be a plant that's been on the market awhile but that's never been in your backyard. Or it might be a newly available plant, like this New Guinea impatiens called Bounce Pink Flame 'Balboufink.' This impatiens has the look of traditional shade-loving Impatiens walleriana, but it won't succumb to downy mildew disease. This is a 2015 All-America Selections award winner, which means it grows well in all regions of the country."
