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Most of us are ready to invest a huge amount for landscaping and gardening to give our home a facelift. Yet we failed to prune when the plants needed it, and then our highly invested landscape looks more terrible than ever. So this is a high time to check out some gardening tips to maintain your lawn better. The following gardening tips will better the life of your garden: —
Gardening tips for pruning
As we discussed in the introduction, pruning is an important job in the garden maintenance. If you commit any mistake while pruning, don't lose your heart because like a bad haircut, it is going to grow again.
Avoid watering in the evening
During summer, you may experience high humidity, this may result in a lot of problems for your garden. To get your plants nice and dry, tuck them in for night. Avoid watering in the evening as this may damage your the plants.
Get rid of Powdery mildew
Powdery mildew is a common fungus mostly affects your ornamental plants. This creates a white film on the leaves of the plants in your garden. Even with other ornamental plants such as Sand cherry and Dogwoods may be infected with this fungus. Efficient gardening is necessary to curtail the growth of this fungus. You can easily prevent this by spraying general fungicide in the garden centre.
Prevention of Pythium Blight
If you're in the north and also having perennial Rye grass, then you ought to be very careful not to leave your grass wet at night. A dreadful fungus called Pythium Blight may take its upper hand, if you leave your lawn wet in the night because this fungus love to grow in high humid condition mostly, in the night.
Pythium blight can easily be seen in the early morning. You can easily appreciate the fungus on the top of the lawn as white cotton candy. You can easily notice this fungus mainly along driveways and walks, where the soil is moist. Pythium blight can easily be controlled by watering in the day at the earliest possible time.
Fire Blight
Fire Blight, yet another culprit prefers to grow well during summer. This fungus prefers to attack Pyracantha, cotoneasters, crabapple trees, and Apple trees. The presence of Fire Blight can easily be spotted — the branches of the plant turns red and dies. This Fire Blight can be prevented little by pruning the affected branch and removing it from the main plant as far as possible.
It is also important that the cut branches should be burnt since Fire Blight is contagious. Also wash or dip the projected shears with alcohol to prevent the spread of the deadly fungus to other parts of the branch.
Shotgun fungus
A little gem like fungus, which prefers to grow in mulch and tends to swell, has been termed as Short gun Fungus. This fungus can fly up to 8 feet in the air and will spatter your house with tiny brown specks and once they stick to your house or windows, they stick like glue. Most of us suspect the spiders and aliens for this tiny brown speck. You cant prevent this fungus, but can do something by keeping the mulch loose so air can circulate inside to keep this fungus out. Although mulch is great, don't allow them to get packed, try to remove it at least once in a year and also rake it flat as if it will look like you've just mulched.