10 tasks we do in the spring in the garden
March 2, 2022
Spring has arrived, the most beautiful time of the year to enjoy nature, the trees and flowers blooming in our garden and balcony. The cold and frost are receding, the temperature is rising as we prepare to enjoy a garden full of life and color.
In the spring season, we start planting spring vegetables, plant spectacular flowers and harvest fresh fruits and vegetables of the season.
At the same time, we start watering and putting fertilizer on the plants in our garden so that they grow and give us wonderful flowers and tasty fruits.
In the spring, we will make sure to prune our garden ornamentals to germinate in the spring as well as start pruning lemon, orange and tangerine trees.
And of course, at this time, we can make new plantings of ornamental plants and fruit trees, make various transplants as well as start sowing and planting lawns.
So let’s look in detail at the spring gardening tasks to plan the care of our plants and enjoy a wonderful spring garden.
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1. We transplant into larger pots and make new plantings in ornamental plants, flowers and fruit trees
What do we plant in the spring?
Spring means color and beauty. And we can bring it to our garden and balcony by planting annual flowering plants, flower bulbs, ornamental shrubs, aromatic plants and fruit trees.
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We can plant ornamental shrubs directly in the soil or repot plants such as roses, geraniums, hydrangeas, azaleas, camellias and hibiscus.
Spring is the best time to refresh our plants and transplant to a larger pot for those plants that need it.
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At this time, we sow or plant annual spring flowering plants such as pansies, petunias, cattails and dogwoods to make our flower beds and balcony planters more beautiful and enjoy the spring nature.
In the spring, we make sure to plant spring bulbs for gladioli, dahlias, amaryllis and lilies in pots or directly in the ground to ensure spectacular and colorful blooms through the summer.
What season and how do we plant flower bulbs
Of course, we will not fail to do the spring planting of aromatic plants such as thyme, oregano, sage, chamomile in order to use their fresh or dried leaves in recipes for favorite foods and drinks.
2. We prune ornamental plants and fruit trees
After the frosts and low night temperatures have passed, spring is the right time to prune evergreen trees and shrubs that do not lose their leaves during the winter season.
We choose a sunny day without rain and humidity to prune our plants. After pruning, spray the plants with a copper formulation and cover the cuts with pruning paste to avoid disease infestation.
When and how to prune the lemon tree
So at this time, in the spring, we prune the orange tree, the tangerine tree and the lemon tree after they finish fruiting while we also prune other citrus trees such as kumquat, grapefruit and bergamot.
In our garden and on our balcony, in early spring, we prune ornamental shrubs such as angelica, photinia, oleander, gardenia, azalea, hibiscus, hydrangea and geranium, as well as aromatic plants such as lavender, rosemary, mint, mint and oregano.
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3. We harvest fresh seasonal vegetables and fruits
In the middle of spring, we harvest vegetables from the late fall and winter plantings, from the lettuce crop, the cabbage crop, the cauliflower crop, the broccoli crop, the beet crop, the spinach crop, the sedges and the cultivation of carrots.
We also harvest herbs from the parsley crop, the dill crop, the arugula crop, the spring onion crop and the garlic crop to make great salads and accompany various cooking recipes.
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From the fruit trees we have in our garden, we will also have from there a harvest of fresh delicious fruits and nuts in the spring, from the cultivation of tangerine varieties of Anchor, orange cultivation of Merlin and Navelate varieties, from the cultivation of lemons, cultivation of grapefruit, cultivation of avocados and loquat cultivation.
4. We start planting the vegetable garden
Spring brings us the planting of spring vegetables in the vegetable garden to enjoy the harvest in the summer. We can plant directly from seed, transplant the ready-made plants that we made in the nursery or get ready-made plants from nurseries and agricultural stores.
Do we prefer plants from seed or ready plants from a nursery?
So we start our spring vegetable garden, with tomato cultivation, pepper cultivation, eggplant cultivation, cucumber cultivation, zucchini cultivation, strawberry cultivation, onion cultivation, melon cultivation, melon cultivation of watermelon, the cultivation of okra and the cultivation of willow.
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We plant our vegetables at the proper planting distances to ensure better ventilation and receive more light. Sparse planting of vegetables is very important as it contributes to better growth and fruiting, as well as reduced attacks by insects and diseases.
Of course, in many cases where we have a small garden and do not have the required space, we can apply vegetable co-culture by making the appropriate combinations of planting vegetables while saving water and nutrients in the soil and fertilizers.
Co-cultivation, which vegetables do we grow together in the garden
5. We water our garden plants more often
After the winter when we have frosts and rains, the plants need more regular watering in the spring as the temperature and their activity rise. So we take care of the proper watering of vegetables, ornamental plants and fruit trees.
Lack of water can create many problems in the growth, flowering and fruiting of our garden and balcony plants. We should also be careful with excessive watering as combined with poor soil drainage it can cause leaf and flower drop as well as root rot.
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We prefer to water with a drip irrigation system which is the most efficient and environmentally beneficial method for watering plants. Also, we can install automatic watering in the garden or on our balcony ensuring better and more stable watering of the plants while freeing up a lot of personal time
In the context of the good installation of automatic watering, it is necessary to determine the duration of watering and how much water the plants want as well as the frequency of watering, i.e. every time we water the plants in our garden.
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6. We put suitable fertilizer on our plants
In the spring, our plants, whether they are vegetables or flowers or fruit trees, have the greatest activity of the whole year and photosynthesize at a more intense rate than in the rest of the seasons.
At this time, it is more necessary than ever to add fertilizer to our garden and balcony plants to ensure vigorous growth, abundant flowering and good fruiting.
It is important to add compost and manure to the soil before spring planting to enhance it with valuable organic matter and nutrients as well as other soil improvers such as perlite, zeolite and attapulgite to improve its properties.
Soil improvement materials to improve the physical properties of the soil
For the vegetables and fruit trees in our garden, we prefer organic fertilizers, rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, so that they have lush vegetation and good fruit production in the summer.
For the decorative plants of our garden and balcony, we choose liquid or water-soluble crystalline fertilizers so that they can be absorbed and assimilated directly by the plants. We prefer complete fertilizers, containing magnesium and iron to ensure lush green vegetation and flowering in our favorite plants.
7. We protect the plants from diseases and insects
As soon as spring arrives, the temperature rises and in combination with the humidity that prevails in the garden, the plants that are in the stages of growth and flowering, become susceptible to attacks by diseases and insects.
So to protect the plants from diseases and insects, we use biological preparations that we get from agricultural stores, such as copper, sulfur, summer pulp, Thuringian bacillus, natural pyrethrin and potassium salts.
What is summer pulp and how is it used in plants
Alternatively, we can make homemade preparations with natural plant protection materials to spray on our plants. Some household ingredients that we use preventively in the garden are baking soda, green soap, milk, vinegar, cayenne pepper, cinnamon, and nettle.
And of course, let’s not forget in our garden, the protection of plants from snails, as there is movement of snails during the period due to increased humidity. For the ecological treatment of snails in our garden, we spread ashes on the soil around the plants.
8. We strengthen the fruiting of the plants
In the middle of spring, flowering and fruit setting occurs on many fruit trees. We can significantly improve the fruit setting of several fruit trees by using the appropriate fruit setting preparations and biostimulants to achieve a significant increase in production.
Biostimulants are a suitable combination of nutrients, trace elements and vitamins used to enhance plant growth, improve fruit set and better fruit formation.
Olive fruiting: how we improve flowering and fruiting
We can use several biostimulants in the spring season in several fruit tree crops such as olive cultivation, peach cultivation, apricot cultivation, apple cultivation, pear cultivation, cherry cultivation, lemon cultivation.
9. We do new seeding and lawn planting
During the spring season, due to the increased humidity and temperature, it is an ideal time for new lawn plantings or to fill in various gaps that have been created in the lawn. Lawn seed, in the right humidity and temperature conditions, usually germinates within 10-15 days.
In the spring, in addition to sowing lawn, it is possible to install ready-made turf. The installation of ready-made turf in our garden is significantly more expensive than sowing, but it offers an immediate and guaranteed result.
Lawn planting, seeding and varieties to choose from
Before seeding or planting the lawn, it is important to remove stones and gravel from the soil. In addition, we incorporate various soil improvement materials such as peat, compost, perlite, zeolite and attapulgite to loosen the soil so that the lawn can take root easily and to ensure better aeration and drainage of the soil after watering.
10. We take care of our vineyard and vineyard
The cultivation of the vine and the bed requires a lot of work in the spring to ensure good fruiting and a rich production of grapes whether for table use or wine production.
We start with stemming and crowning the vine to control the intense growth of the shoots to balance the intense vegetation and achieve abundant fruiting.
Then we defoliate the vine to create better ventilation and sunshine conditions to ensure better ripening and quality grapes.
During the period of growth of the vine shoots in the spring, it is necessary to protect against grape downy mildew and grape powdery mildew, the most important fungal diseases that attack the foliage and grapes, causing a reduction and degradation of production.
Treat vine downy mildew
To deal with diseases in an ecological way, we spray with wettable copper and wettable sulfur preparations or with other suitably approved biological preparations. We can also dust with sulfur as long as the temperature is below 30°C to avoid the risk of burns on the leaves and small fruits.
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