After the harsh weather of the winter seasons, your garden may be in dire need of a good old-fashioned spring clean. From unraked fallen leaves to long neglected planting themes, it can be incredibly daunting to reassess your outdoor space during this season. However, compiling a simple list of what you need to do can help to break down these jobs into simple, achievable activities. In this article, we will outline the garden tasks to get on with as the spring descends. Let’s begin.
Prune Winter Planting Themes
Whilst cleaning your garden space, first prune away any overhanging branches left over from any winter planting themes and tidy up the edges of your borders. Tidying up borders in this way allows you to create different “zones” to your garden and can make even a smaller space feel much larger as a result.
Should you have any lingering, surviving resilient plants, prune these slightly to encourage new growth from new planting themes. Plants such as roses and lavender particularly will need careful attention for continued successful growing.
Spring Clean
A “spring clean” usually means a general de-cluttering and tidying of an indoor space, but the idea can easily be applied to an outdoor area too. If you have an outdoor decking space or a patio, this may have become incredibly slippery after months of frosty, wet weather. Use a soft brush and a hose to clear any debris off the surface if you have decking, or a scrub brush to remove weeds between the gaps of two separate slabs if you have a patio.
If your decking has begun to rot away after absorbing too much moisture during the winter, it may be time to replace your boards completely. The woodgrain surface of composite decking allows it to be slip resistant, and it is resilient against the effects of weathering due to it being made up of a mixture of both recycled plastic timber and plastic fibres.
Remove Mulch
Your garden lawn may have completely fallen into a state of neglect during the winter months. Fallen leaves and twigs can leave your lawn dead and yellowed. Using a rake, simply scrape away any residual mulch or moss that has started to encroach onto your green space. This collected kindling can be cut down, trimmed and composted, so nothing goes to waste.
Once your lawn space is cleared, begin to sow grass seeds in the gaps where the grass has died. Most grass seeds are relatively fast growing and will begin to grow around 8-10 days after your initial planting. You should then have a completely refreshed garden lawn space within a few weeks.
Rejuvenate Your Space
The new year gives you the perfect excuse to completely change how your garden is designed. As stated previously, it allows you to throw away the sections and themes of your garden that were not working, and instead replace it with something new to welcome in the new season.
If you are on a budget, don’t worry; even simple changes can massively alter the overall feng shui of your space, like moving garden furniture into a new area, or repainting it to give it a new sense of life. Recycled and repurposed garden additions are still incredibly popular, allowing you to populate your garden with new, interesting, attention-diverting items without breaking the bank.
To conclude, there are many important, helpful garden tasks for the springtime. Taking the time to prune away any lingering winter planting themes, raking your lawn from residual mulch, or fallen leaves, and simply tidying up you’re decking, fencing, or patio space can massively help to ease the transition from the desolate, cold winter to the far warmer, welcoming springtime. We hope this article has given you some plenty of ideas to kick start your garden spring clean. Thank you for reading, and good luck!
