Albuquerque Springtime Garden Preparation – Part Two

Great plants can translate into an amazingly beautiful Albuquerque garden, but they will not make it happen just by virtue of the quality and beauty of the plants themselves. A stunning Albuquerque garden mandates a completion of a significant amount of garden readiness tasks and standard pre-spring upkeep activities for it to happen. Prior to planting your Albuquerque garden in spring 2020 here’s a great to-do-list guide you can follow to get your garden ready for a stunningly beautiful season this year.

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Pruning Action Plan

Getting your Albuquerque garden ready for spring means it’s time to prune you trees and shrubs. The trees and shrubs that bloom when new wood is exposed, need to be pruned. The best time to do you pruning when it’s late winter or early springtime. During this time of year, it’s better for pruning because tree and shrub branch structure is much more visible, making it easier to see where pruning makes the most sense. Plus, it’s better to complete pruning now while buds dormancy is still in place, giving trees and bushes the opportunity to put its growing energy toward branch development.

Prior to moving forward with you pruning, think about handful of subjects. Number one, take the time to clean your pruning shears with isopropyl alcohol prior to each pruning session. Doing this will reduce the chances of infecting your trees and bushes with plant disease. Number two, be sure to complete an online review of all plants that should be pruned after they have blossomed because of the bloom on old wood. Apply what you learn on the internet and don’t prune any trees or bushes in your Albuquerque garden on the list until after they bloom.

Once pruning on your trees, shrubs and bushes is completed be sure to introduce a small amount of fertilizer to the soil of the base of plant. If the soil is diggable, turn it over with the fertilizer on the soil and then water it. Doing this will give the plant the nutrients it needs to heal the pruning cuts made.

Albuquerque Garden Soil Preparation

After the winter freeze is over and the soil in your garden will accept a spade so you can dig down, begin getting your garden bed soil ready for spring. Soil gets hard and compacted most of the time during winter. Because your Albuquerque garden soil will most likely be hard, break it up by either turn the soil over with a pick and shovel or by using a rototiller and till it up completely. When you are tilling or turning over your garden’s soil, be sure to dig down from 1 foot to ½ feet. Existing mulch or old leaves can be turned over into the soil, but if’s new, then rake it up and throw it away.

The following step to make is to introduce high-grade compost into the soil. Take the smart extra step and check your soil’s PH levels with a soil testing kit .The results from a soil test will give you the information you need to pick the right compost needed to enhance your soil’s nutrient content and its ability to hold in water. After you’ve added compost to the soil, rake the entire garden and then water it so it levels out and settled completely.

When a garden’s soil is very poor, it might make sense to build a garden using a raised garden bed.

Doing Albuquerque springtime garden preparation takes work, but the work is well worth the results you’ll realize. There’s plenty work involved, but the end it will payoff in a big way.