5 Ways to Keep Your Garden from Growing Out of Control

If you’re not the most green-fingered of people at the moment, it can be all too easy to allow your garden to get out of control. Keeping your garden growing steadily and healthily will help to keep it looking great and make it a place you like to relax and unwind.

It can be intimidating at first with so much to remember, but the best thing you can do is get started!

5 Ways to Keep Your Garden from Growing Out of Control

Here are five measures to take to stop your garden from getting out of control.

1 – Use Plant Disease Resistant Varieties

Disease-resistant varieties of plants can often fight off disease and not succumb to it. Tomatoes are one example of this! This isn’t always something that is listed on plant tags, though, so be warned

2 – Prune Damaged Limbs Early On

Trimming your trees and late shrubs in winter is the best time to do it – don’t wait until spring. A wounded limb could easily become infected over late winter, and this can allow disease to lie dormant in your plant until you least expect it. A company like Brents Tree Service could help you if you are confused. Always use sharp pruning tools so that you can make clean cuts, and ensure you cut back to healthy, living tissue.

3 – Don’t Crowd Your Plants

Make sure you keep a close eye on how you space your plants as well as established plants as they spread. Crowded plants can create humidity which can cause issues like mildew. When you increase space around your plants you’ll improve airflow and give your foliage the opportunity to dry out faster.

4 – Start Mulching

Mulching is crucial if you want to keep weeds out of your garden the natural way. You simply use this technique to cover your garden with a layer of organic matter, and this overpowers your weeds. New weed seeds can be stopped from germinating this way, too. Wood chips and grass clippings can work well if you can’t use mulching, for whatever reason. To keep weeds under control you can also pour boiling water over them, or use vinegar to dry them out.

5 – Use Organic Pesticides

Keeping pests under control is another important aspect of a well-kept garden. You can purchase all kinds of pesticides in stores including sprays and pellets – however, organic pesticides are usually the better option. This way, you don’t need to worry about damaging the health of various types of wildlife and you can use the solution on your fruits and vegetables with no issues.

The Bottom Line: Take preventative action to keep your garden from going out of control

Stopping your garden from getting out of control doesn’t have to be a chore. Here are some more gardening tricks you can use:

Download an app to get reminders on when to water your plants and how much.
Hire somebody to come in every so often and keep things tidy and trimmed back.
Use plants that are difficult to kill at first until you feel more confident that you can maintain a diverse garden.

Good luck on maintaining a healthy garden–without it growing out of control!

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Editor and author at DIY Home & Garden, a Word Innovations publication

Deborah Tayloe is a full-time blogger, children's book author, and freelance writer, contributing to large publications.

She has a B.S.Ed. in Secondary Education/English and a Spanish Minor. In addition, she holds a Certificates in Natural Health and Herbology from accredited programs. She pursued these natural wellness certifications due to her love for herb gardening.

Despite freelancing to make a living, her love is "all things home."

Deborah grew up in a family that grew a large vegetable garden and a fruit orchard, helping her parents pull weeds and can home-grown foods as part of her childhood. In fact, she had no idea that she could purchase veggies and fruits in pre-packed steel cans until she went to college and made a food run.

Today, she lives in Bertie County, North Carolina, an agricultural rural area with more chickens than people. She lives with her husband and two rescue pets a sweet toy fox terrier and a cat who showed up one day and moved into the house. Together, they enjoy DIY projects, furniture refinishing, gardening, and canning.

5 Ways to Keep Your Garden from Growing Out of Control