Spring Gardening To Do List (and More)

Everyone likes to give their house a good spring cleaning to look fresh after a long winter. It is the same way you can take good care of your garden to prepare it for summer. A perfect picture spring landscape can be overwhelming sometimes, even when snow and ice have melted.

That’s why we have provided a checklist that will assist you to pace yourself while you prepare for flower beds, shrubs, trees, and other places that need cleaning in the yard. We have made it much easier for you to plan your list, because we broke it into early, mid, and late spring.

Early Spring To Do List

It has been a while, and now you want to get back to your garden after the long winter. It will help if you put some important things for your garden to be ready for the spring and the growing season.

Clean up flower beds

Winter storm debris from the soil surface that you anticipate planting flowers and veggies should be cleared out. Try to remove the protective winter mulch from the perennials and ornamental grasses.

If you want your grass clumps to look clean and inviting, you need to trim off the hedges. While working with plants with prickly leaves (lungwort), don't forget to wear your gloves. Putting on gloves helps to protect your hands from cuts and scrapes.

Divide perennials

Before spring growth, that is the best time to divide many perennials. A budget-friendly way to fill your garden to share with friends or with many plants is by dividing perennials. It is also an excellent way to keep perennials existing healthy.

Most times, it is expected that the middle of plants that grow in a large clump will thin out after a few years, which will leave a bare spot. But, when you divide the clusters, you are helping the plant to generate growth.

Add fresh mulch around perennials

Your yard will look when you add fresh mulch to garden beds. It is an excellent way to retain soil moisture for your plants.

Plant veggies

Please plant cool-season vegetables during early spring when you notice the soil is thawed. It will be ready for early summer.

Mid-Spring To Do List

Your spring landscape should start coming to light because more shrubs, bulbs and other things have taken place. This is when you should add new plants to your garden.

• Clean bird feeders.

• Make notes as you watch the spring show.

• Plant new perennials and cold-hardy annuals.

• Add new trees and shrubs.

• Apply mulch.

Late Spring To Do List

Late spring is the period when you start cleaning up the bloomed flowers

Deadhead bulbs

Plants tend to store energy when removing the blossom from spring flowing bulbs. Allow the foliage to die by itself; try not to remove it until the color is yellow complete or when it dries up.

Shop for summer annuals

Petunias, zinnias, and impatiens are usually the best summer annuals; hence, try to pick them out.

Start warm-season veggies

Transplantation of seedlings of warm-season crops can take place. For example, pepper, herbs of all kinds and tomatoes are warm-season crops.

Plant summer-blooming bulbs

It is usually in the fall that spring-blooming bulbs are planted. Once there's no more threat of frost, it is wise to plant summer blooming bulbs.

If you follow the checklist above, you will have one of the best clean and good-looking gardens. Take pride in your garden and beautify it as you would in your home.

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How to Use Honeysuckle

Do you remember eating honeysuckles as a kid? The memories are always trilling. But, there are many flower offers than just the sweet taste. It is perfect for boosting health. The seeds, flowers, and leaves are a great source of wellness. In this article, we will discuss the uses of honeysuckles, as well as their potential health benefits.

Uses of Honeysuckle

Honeysuckle can be used for different purposes as follows.

• Honeysuckle helps with upper respiratory tract infections.

• Honeysuckle helps to reduce headaches and fever.

• It helps with viral as well as bacterial infections.

• Honeysuckle helps with the digestion of disorders. 

• It helps to reduce pain and inflammation of the small intestine.

• It helps with the rectifying urinary disorder.

• Honeysuckle helps with diabetes.

• It helps with arthritis.

What Is Honeysuckle?

It is common to find honeysuckles in garden plants with fragrant flowers. All over the world, hundreds of species grow, especially in climates temperature. The honeysuckle plants are of the genus Lonicera of the Caprifoliaceae. 

Honeysuckles have a charming aroma. It is always lovely when you whiff honeysuckle. You will be amazed that you can get many health benefits from honeysuckle. You can even make recipes from these flowers. Let’s find out:

Health Benefits Of Honeysuckle

1. Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties:

Not all of the honeysuckle is consumable. However, there are edible berries, and studies have reviewed that they have impressive and powerful health properties. And those that it is their first time are outstanding in fighting disease antioxidants.

2. Immune boosting and antiviral properties:

Lonicera Japonica is known as the Japanese honeysuckle, popularly used as a Traditional Chinese Medicine. The colour is yellow, white flowers and berries that are black. The research took place during 2018 that shows the demonstration of honeysuckles berries that enhance immune system function. 

The berries have a natural way of stopping the activity that kills cells known as NK cells, which is a kind of white blood cell, and it has the power to destroy viruses and tumour cells. It acts as an immunomodulatory agent for immunosuppressed mice subjects. 

3. Natural scent:

There is a natural perfume scent that comes out of honeysuckles. Although it is not easy to get a honeysuckles essential oil that is pure, if you are fortunate to get one, you can turn it into a unique personal scent mixed with a carrier oil but of little quantity. It also helps for the diffuser, bath, and linen sprays.

4. Oral health support:

Honeysuckles are sometimes one of the ingredients in natural gargles. To make a mouthwash at home just combine 2 cups of boiled water and a half cup of fresh leaves of honeysuckles. After boiling the two together, lower the temperature and simmer for 5 minutes. Leave the mixture to completely cool down before putting it into your mouth.

5. Diabetes support:

Honeysuckles can help people with type 2 diabetes. Lonicera Japonica was used to test diabetic rats for four weeks with a dose of 100mg/kg. The result of the treatment came out after four weeks, and it was discovered to help reduce high blood glucose levels and resistance of insulin concerning the animal subjects. 

Therefore, the results show how honeysuckles are effective in reducing type 2 diabetic rats.

Honeysuckles are lovely flowers naturally good for medical purposes, as listed above. Therefore, it is suitable for perfume oil and vital in rectifying health issues. You can check out natural health brands to get more details about flower remedies. Start by trying Bach Flower Remedies’ Honeysuckle Flower Essence.

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