Ready to Bring Beauty Back To Your Yard?
Spring is in full swing in Des Moines, and it will be summer before we know it! With the daylight hours growing and the weather getting warmer, let’s explore what you need to do to keep your garden beds in tip-top shape as the blooming season continues. Here is our go-to checklist to keep your garden healthy and looking fresh all summer long:
1. Remove Anything Dead
Begin by clearing out dead plants, leaves, or stems that did not make it through the winter. This time-consuming, but important, process will help tidy up your garden beds and prevent disease from taking over your healthy plants. It will also make room for new growth and leave room for new plants to be added to your garden.
2. Prune Overgrown Plants
Take a close look at your perennials and shrubs. Cut back any overgrown or leggy growth, take out dead branches and tidy up to shape as needed. Pruning is important for healthy growth and encourages beautiful blooms with plenty of places to go.
3. Pull Those Ugly and Pesky Weeds
Spring brings beautiful blooms, but it also brings weeds, lots of them if you are not careful. Prevent them from taking over your bed! Pull up anything that has started to grow before it can spread. Getting your weeding done early will give you more time back later in the season and save you the headaches that await with overgrown weeds taking over your lovely plants.
4. Consider Adding Compost
Healthy soil is the best foundation you can give your garden, and adding compost to your garden bed will help provide a nutritional boost, improve drainage, and encourage strong growth of your plants.
5. Give Your Mulch a Refresh
Mulch is more than just a pretty addition to your garden bed, it keeps your garden healthy. Mulch holds water, suppresses weeds, and regulates soil temperatures making it so your plants are not overheating or too thirsty in the dry summer months we often experience in Iowa. A fresh layer of mulch (2-3 inches deep) will keep your beds looking neat, finished, and your plants healthy.
6. Fertilize and Protect with Fertilizer + Weed Preventer
Feed your plants with a balanced fertilizer that has weed control built-in to nourish your plants, keep new weeds from sprouting, and save you a ton of time over the course of the summer.
7. Introduce Some New Life
Seeing some empty spots that could benefit from the addition of a plant? Now is the ideal time to introduce a new addition to your garden. Consider vibrant annuals, sturdy perennials, even vegetables or herbs. New plantings will create a full look to your landscape bed and will introduce seasonal colors throughout the growing season.
Need a Hand? We’ve Got Your Back!
Seriously, save yourself the back pain and let us take care of it for you. No project is too small or too big for us to help with. We can help rejuvenate your landscape beds, suggest and implement new plantings, fertilize and weed prevent, mulch, and so much more. Check out our full list of services.
