How To Make A Garden Maintenance Schedule For Your Home
Gardening is a tough passion to have because it does take a lot of work to achieve. It also takes a fair amount of administration and discipline to get right. But it can feel marvelous to engage in those plans because gardening is so enjoyable and grounding.
However, it’s easy for gardening to get the better of you when just starting out, and that's usually the result of just doing bits here and there with no real pattern, which is why having a loose schedule is something to achieve immediately.
You may prefer a laminated spreadsheet with colour-coded tasks, but a little reminder note-taking system that nudges you into doing the right things at the right time can work as well
You do need a schedule because keeping everything in mind at once isn’t so easy to achieve. That’ll also give you space to actually enjoy the garden instead of constantly spotting more things that need fixing and feeling like you’re spinning green plates. You won’t need to spend every Saturday out there either, it’s more about a sustainable routine you can chip away at. But for such an effort, you have to write things down:
Let’ explore how to do this:
Start With What Needs Doing Weekly
Most gardens have a few things that need small bits of attention or they unravel quicker than you’d think. Grass is common, especially once spring kicks in properly, so keeping it trimmed once a week or so stops it from choking the edges and turning into a full-scale job later, as does light sprinkler sprays if you live in a very hot area. A weekly glance at beds and borders helps too, as well as deadheading flowers, pulling out early weeds, or checking for any moss growth.
Watering fits in here too, but only if the area is dry. If you can check for this and any runoff in the area, you’ll be fine.
Sort Monthly Tasks Into Clear Theme Rotations
Trying to tackle everything at once just leads to burnout and incomplete jobs, so it’s better to give each month its own focus and let things move in cycles. One month might be for trimming back hedges and reshaping shrubs, another could be for enriching the soil or moving plants that aren’t happy where they are.
You can also consider the wider maintenance you enjoy, like cleaning tools or sharpening blades, and the monthly schedule gives you some time to achieve that, because they’re not urgent until they suddenly are. Spacing it all out like this means you’ve always got a rough idea of what needs doing without standing there every Saturday wondering where to even begin, and you can write those habits on your calendar, or make a specific digital one.
Match The Schedule To Seasonal Changes
Everything in the garden changes with the seasons whether you plan for it or not, so building that natural change into your schedule can be helpful. This is also true because some root vegetables are best to start growing in the colder months.
You can also use seasons for preparation and planting, and while enjoying the fruits of your labor in summer, focus on maintenance and making sure things don’t bolt or burn out, like replacing the battery lawn mower if you’re mowing taller grass. Then you can clearing space in autumn, and winter, well, you might redesign then or plan the next year. It’s a fun cycle and keeps you grounded.
With this advice, you’re sure to make certain gardening maintenance is on schedule for your home.
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