Garden care: 5 tips for homeowners and hobby landscape gardeners

Garden care: 5 tips for homeowners and hobby landscape gardeners There is always something to do when cleaning and maintaining terraces and gardens. homeowners and in addition to regular lawn care, hobby gardeners can also devote themselves to an almost endless variety of plants and trees.

In line with this, the terrace and garden furniture should leave a well-kept impression and invite you to linger.

The following 5 tips will help homeowners and hobby landscape gardeners to optimally care for their own gardens – for a radiantly beautiful and graceful garden in every season.

Tip 1: cleaning and care of terraces

The cleaning and care of terraces can be time-consuming, especially in the spring. Depending on the floor covering of the terrace, unsightly water stains, moss, verdigris, etc. have formed there over the cold days, which quickly make the terrace look unkempt.

High time to conjure up new splendor on the terrace.

Important note for all homeowners: Before cleaning and maintaining the terrace, please check the floor covering carefully. A wooden floor has to be looked after completely differently than, for example, a floor made of PVC with a wood look or a concrete or stone floor.

Depending on how the wood was treated, wooden floors can be oiled to refresh them or given a glaze. The wood not only shines in new splendor but is also protected from weather influences such as sunshine or rain.

Concrete slabs on the terrace can be easily and effectively cleaned of moss and dirt with a high-pressure cleaning device. Due to the high water pressure, no additional cleaning agent is usually necessary.

Tip 2: Cleaning and maintenance of gardens

Depending on the size of your garden, garden cleaning can take a good deal of time. Every season offers something new.

The best thing to do is to take stock of which plants and trees are in your garden and when they should be trimmed or severely shortened, for example, or when the best time to plant is for the respective species.

With a garden planner, you always have an overview of all the necessary tasks that are necessary when cleaning and maintaining gardens.

In the spring, in particular, a little spring cleaning should be done to clean gardens. In addition to removing leaf debris and debris, it may be time to apply new topsoil, replant some plants, and mow or mulch the lawn.

Valuable information for hobby landscape gardeners: Even if there is a large selection of gardening tools that are intended to make your work easier, check in advance exactly which tools you really need to clean and care for your garden.

A lawnmower, for example, not only has to be able to be adapted to the conditions in your garden, but also to meet all the requirements for ease of use.

A closer look at the offers of the respective DIY stores and landscape gardening companies can be helpful here before you actually decide on one or the other garden tool.

Tip 3: Clean garden furniture – you should pay attention to this

Similar to the floor covering of the terrace, when cleaning garden furniture you must first pay attention to the material the furniture is made of.

Cleaning PVC garden furniture

PVC garden furniture is best cleaned with warm water and a mild detergent. However, always check the result of the cleaning on an inconvenient spot like the underside of a chair to spot any changes from cleaning agents or abrasion before the furniture is ruined.

Clean metal garden furniture

Do you have metal garden furniture? There is now a large selection of cleaning and care products on the market, especially for metal furniture. There are also rust inhibitors and anti-corrosion agents that go with universal metal cleaners to protect your garden furniture. It will last a long time, so you can enjoy it for as long as you like.

Cleaning wooden garden furniture

If this is wooden furniture, you should be careful when using water. It is best to clean the furniture with a broom and then treat it with very fine sandpaper. The wood can then be oiled or repainted.

When cleaning wooden garden furniture, it is important to know that each type of wood can have different requirements. You should therefore find out in advance exactly what wood is involved and how the wooden furniture on the terrace can be optimally cleaned.

Natural wood is particularly easy to clean with oil. The linseed oil varnish is recommended here, for example, as it intensively cares for the wood, makes it look new, and protects it from influences such as heat, water, or UV radiation.

You can find out more about cleaning and maintaining wooden garden furniture properly in our blog post Cleaning wooden surfaces (properly)! Floors, surfaces, furniture

Tip 4: Glue and smooth bricks

Depending on the shape and material, gluing and smoothing bricks can be a real challenge. The work is made easier for you with a thin layer of mortar or the appropriate assembly adhesive or stone adhesive, which can also be helpful after a long winter when fixing individual stones that have fallen out due to frost.

But make sure in advance which material you or your craftsmen used for the garden wall. Before you glue the bricks, you should carefully clean and smooth the surface. The individual bricks can then be fixed in the desired position with an adhesive.

Always check the position of a brick immediately after gluing it in place, this is the only way you can correct any deviations and compensate, for example, by sprinkling fine sand.

Tip 5: Regular cleaning of gardens by a service provider

Do you want to relax in the garden more often and regular cleaning of gardens is not one of your favorite tasks? Do you not only lack the muse for cleaning and maintaining gardens, but also the time?

Get a non-binding offer for landscape and garden maintenance from top caretakers in the Sydney area. We would be happy to support you with individual garden maintenance. We are local, reliable, and competitively priced.

By the way, we also have interesting year-round or part-time care offers that will help you to clean your garden, depending on your requirements. Just ask about our current offers – by phone on 1300 66 46 47.

 

Well-kept gardens and attractive gardens? With our 5 tips, you as a homeowner or hobby landscape gardener are guaranteed to succeed in garden maintenance!

You have learned step by step how to clean and care for terraces and gardens, but also how to properly clean garden furniture or glue and smooth bricks.