If you have added new plants, trees or shrubs to your home and garden areas you need to remember that the first season of growth is the most critical. Your plants are adapting to a new home and climate and need additional care to get a healthy start.
You will want to water thoroughly every other day for the first two weeks after panting new plants. Then give your plants about an inch of water a week for the rest of the season. It’s also wise to mulch around new plants to help retain water in the soil and keep the ground cooler during the hot summer days.
The following year, you can let nature take over with watering. You may need to supplement water if you have a hot dry spell but the plants should have adapted and under normal circumstances should be able to survive without watering.
Mulch will also help cut back on weeds that will take away nutrients for the plants. Mulch will also keep mowers and weed whackers away form your plants and prevent the possibility of damage to the plants from getting to close to stems or tree trunks.
As plants, such as perennials grow and fill in there will be fewer opportunities for weeds to grow. But until them weeding and mulching will be an important task to perform.
And one important and often overlooked area of plant care is to keep a record of the plant name and care. You may remember the variety this year but what about five years from now? And other family members or new owner of the property might need this information.
So when you get new plants keep a book or record the information online so that you can look up plant care and any growing information of diseases for the variety you selected.
Plants add value and beauty to your home so proper care will keep them healthy for years to come.
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