April showers bring May flowers
As the saying goes, April showers bring May flowers! During the rainy month, spend time indoors planning and preparing for the gardening season. Create a dream sketch of your favorite wildflower garden. Think of the colors you would like to fill your home with, and find the right wildflower seeds to grow them. Learn about the various kinds of wild flower seeds available in the market and pick up the ones you wish to grow in your back yard. To prepare the garden, you must, first of all, remove weeds and unwanted gravel that are lying loose all around. This will enable the seeds to grow.
Once that is done, you also need to till the soil and mix soil nutrients, which will help the growth of wildflowers. You may also spray insecticides and pesticides well before planting the wildflower seeds so that they stay in the soil and do not let the weeds grow again.
Before planting the wildflower seeds, choose the flowers accordingly. Sun loving wild flowers need ample sunlight throughout the day, and thus need to be planted in sunny spots of the backyard.
The shade loving wildflowers will not survive the high temperatures and thus need to be planted in between trees or shady corners. Once the soil is ready, you may also mark designs and patterns in which you want the wildflower seeds to grow in. A few stones, marbles and even tiles at a few places will add to the design of the backyard.
Now that you have prepared the backyard for the ‘great plantation drive’, you may sit back and enjoy for a while. But, do not forget to make a list of the tilling equipments that you may require for planting the wildflowers. For once May hits, you will have all of the tools you need to start planting!