Top 10 Beginner’s Guide to Gardening - Tips and Lessons

Let us look into the top 10 garden tips for novice gardeners and boost the confidence of the beginners in gardening and also for those who are still planning to start gardening.

Gardening is not an exact science.

Even experienced gardeners make mistakes, so novice gardeners should start with a positive note and with full confidence. It takes hardly few minutes to gain some basic knowledge or some basic garden tips to start gardening.

Here are the top garden tips for beginners in gardening.


1. Know Your Region, one thing you should note is that not everything grows everywhere, so what you plant is your garden is determined by where you live. So, you have to survey few factors in your garden area like the sun light exposure, temperature and so on depending on your zone. Best tip is to Talk to someone who works at your local garden center or a plant nursery, re-gardening the best native plants for your region.


2. Spend Time to Prepare your soil or the potting mixture. Carefully plant, what you want to grow whether vegetable gardening or ornamental plants or flowering plants. Spend time and make the right potting mix. You can watch YouTube video on the Universal Potting mix after you finish this guide.


3. Start with Easy to Grow Plants, growing vegetables is a fun introduction to gardening, by sowing seeds, because they don’t take as long time to grow and will give that GREAT FEELING OF SATISFACTION AND the confidence required for a newbie gardener.


4. Watering Carefully: In newbie gardening, over watering is actually the main villain that kills your plants not under watering. Best tip for beginners is first check the soil by dipping the finger into the soil to at least an inch and if its dry then only water the plants.


5. Sunlight exposure: The basic tip here is to know about your plant. Know its name, google about the care tips of your plant. Different plants require different amount of sunlight. Some are completely shade loving plants and some need at least 6 to 8 hours of sunlight.


6. Have Patience: Patience is the key to success in gardening. It does not just happen in one day, it takes time. Sometimes impatience will cause you to over-water or fuss too much with the plants in the hopes that they will grow faster.


7. Spare at least 30 to 60 minutes daily for your plants like water them, examine them closely for any pest attacks or nutritional deficiencies. And Gardening is the best exercise, try to get at least one plant in a week. Repot this plant in your favorite pot or container. Spend some time to fertilize or spray pesticides to your plants at least once or twice a month.


8. Weeds: Actually, when I started gardening, I used to feel happy when weeds started growing, but be cruel to your weeds and just eliminate them without mercy.


9. Fungus and pest attacks: Be watchful for any pest attacks or fungus in the early stage itself. Spraying an organic pesticide like neem oil mix plus some liquid soap once every 15 days as a preventive measure is the best garden tip for novice gardeners.


10. Pruning: Do not hesitate to trim or cut off some branches off your plant. Generally, beginners have some kind of mercy in their hearts and hesitate to trim their plants. But trimming is a good habit and must be done without any hesitation. And particularly trimming a diseased branch is compulsory.


11. And one last bonus take home garden tip is: Experiment, Experiment, Experiment: Also, do not get scared of repotting, root pruning, trimming or even uprooting and shifting your plants. So, there we have its folks, that was our guide on the top 10 garden tips for beginners in gardening. If you have some more tips, please suggest them in the comments section below.

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