No matter how lovely the spring weather, a true gardener knows that sprucing up a lifeless garden is no walk in the park - especially when selling your house. When getting ready to move house, there’s already plenty to worry about before gardening gets in the way.
However, it’s important to remember that your house’s appearance doesn’t solely depend on what’s inside: prospective buyers are thinking about what’s outside, too. In fact, your garden might just be one of the first impressions a prospective buyer gets of your home! (No pressure.)
That’s why it’s so important to keep your garden well-trimmed and blooming strong throughout the spring and summer months. But just in case you’ve found yourself with a dead, dried-out garden following the harsh winter weather, here are a few quick, simple ways you can spruce up your garden before selling your house.
Remove Weeds
Before you can even think about sprucing up dry soil, you need to first remove the weeds that have been growing around your plants. Depending on where you live, weeds can range anywhere from dandelions to bamboo plants. The way you’ll want to remove each depends on what the weed is and how it’s growing, among other unique factors.
In general, one should always wear gardening gloves to stay clean while weeding the garden. Also, be sure to extract the plant from the root so more weeds don’t simply grow back later. You can also try using an anti-pest product on your garden to prevent more weeds from growing even if seeds are spread.
Revive Dry Soil
Garden too dry to grow? No one wants to find a garden full of dehydrated soil in their yard - but if your garden didn’t have its problems, you wouldn’t be here reading this article! That being said, dry soil doesn’t have to mean the end of your little garden plot. Here is a quick and easy way to revive your soil to regrow your favorite plants during the spring months:
First, grab some nutrient-rich ingredients such as compost, mulch or manure. Then, give your garden a gentle dig with your garden fork and hose it down so that the garden is damp. Finally, lay your compost, mulch or manure and spray a little bit of liquid fertilizer. Soon, your lifeless garden should be growing back as good as new!
Become a Pruning Pro
Pruning is an essential step in the life of a gardener, but it’s one that amateurs often forget. However, pruning has more than superficial benefits; it also improves the health and vigor of plants and even encourages fruit and flower production.
Like most things in life, there’s a right way and a wrong way to prune your garden - and while one encourages growth, the other may actually do your plants more harm than good. It’s essential to remember to prune flowers at the right time: in the spring after flowering for plants that flower in mid-June, and if it flowers later prune it in late winter or early spring.
