Design your personal garden in your back yard by following the steps in this article.
In order to make a flower bed, you will need to choose a good place in your back yard. This place will depend on the types of flowers you are planning to grow there. There are annuals and perennial flowers. Annuals live only one growing season, while perennials live more than two years. THere are many annuals that need alot of water, while there are some varieties that can exist in dry conditions too. Some flowers need plenty of sunshine while others prefer shady, cooler conditions. Be sure to picka spot that will meet the needs of your flowers.
Next, plan the size and the shape that you want your flower bed to be in. It can be a simple circle, square, rectangular, or whatever shape you choose. IN planning the shape and size, remember that you will need to allow enough room for you to fit inside so you can work on the inner garden plants. The outside flowers can be worked on from the outside of the bed, of course. You will also need to allow enough room for your plants to grow and bloom without being cramped. Cramped plants will not grow to be healthy and beautiful. Also think about how tall the flowers you have decided to plant will grow to be when they are full height. If you plant taller flowers on the outside, for example, the shorter ones in the middle will be hidden from view. Decide what flowers will be planted exactly where in your flower bed so you will know how many your garden will accomodate and how many plants you will need to buy.
The next step is to outline your flower bed on the spot that you have chosen with a long piece of rope or string.Make sure it is the shape and size that you want, and then start spading up the soil along the boundaries of the rope or string that you have laid down. Be sure to spade at least eight inches deep and turn the soil over completely. After you have finished with the outer edges, you can take the rope or string up as you now have the shape dug up. Continue spading until you have covered the entire flower bed. For larger gardens, you can use a rototiller to work through the soil and break it up to make finer soil. But, for smaller gardens, you will need to use the spade to break the soil up well. You can add fertilizers, compost, or peat moss to your flower bed now if you wish.
You are now ready to plant your flower bed. Start by digging a deep hole. Make sure the hole is large enough so the root system of the flower has plenty of space to stretch out in and to grow. Plant your first flower plant, pat the soil down around it, and move on to the next plant. Continue on like this until you have all of your flowers planted in their new bed. After all of the flowers are planted, you may choose to mulch your new bed. If your bed is too close to your house, you might choose to cover it in sand instead of mulch. Some types of mulch are known to attact ants and other bugs, and you sure don't want those in your house. Mulch can be benefical though, in keeping weeds down. Sand works too, but not quite as well as mulch.
