You may make New Year’s resolutions for yourself, but you can also make some for your trees and your yard. The improvements you can put on your list are many, but here are a few of them.
Start a Gardening Diary
A gardening diary is not only fun to set up, but it lets you keep tabs on your garden, trees, and yard all through the year. In this diary, you can jot down visits from the arborists, recommendations that they provide, when you plant, and when plants germinate, flower, and fruit. Other things to jot down are layouts, companion plants and reminders to mulch, fertilize, and rotate your vegetables.
Set Up a Compost Pile
Instead of going to a big box store or a nursery and lugging heavy bags of compost back home, create your own compost pile. Some people find a corner of their yard and toss the leavings of plants, wood chips, eggshells, cardboard and other refuse that aren’t meat. Some gardeners toss in some dog kibble as a starter, give it a bit of a misting from the garden hose, and stir it up now and then. Others build a bin of chicken wire, while others spring for one of those rotating barrels. However you make your compost, it’ll be worth it when it comes to enriching your yard.
Use Organic Fertilizer
If you’ve been thinking of that fish or seaweed emulsion as a fertilizer, the new year is the time to try it out. Use it on your grass, your raised beds, herbaceous borders, and even your trees if they need fertilizing.
Consider Natural Pest Control
If you’ve been nervous about chemicals when it comes to pest control, consider more natural methods. One example is to use parasitoid wasps to control grubs and other insect pests.
Plant Some Fruit Trees
If you have room in your yard, think of planting some fruit trees that thrive in your climate. Few things are more joyous than harvesting your own fruit when it’s ripe and whipping up pies, cakes and other desserts. You might have so much fruit that you’ll need to give some of it away.
Pay Attention
It’s also good to resolve to pay more attention to your trees and your yard for the next year. That way, you’ll be able to find problems while they’re still small and solvable.
Dreaming of what you want to do with your trees and yard in the coming year is exciting. If you need even more ideas or tree trimming and pruning, don’t wait to call our professional arborists at Joe Benigno’s Tree Service of Carson City, NV.
