With spring, nature is reborn, and with it, the desire to garden. But to have beautiful flowers and vegetables, you must proceed step by step. Here are the tips from our gardener Olivier Rolland, a “young” retiree passionate about gardening. He has always passionately cultivated his vast vegetable garden. The soil holds no secrets for him.
First, weed and prune the roses, shrubs, and fruit trees.
As soon as the weather permits (waterlogged or frozen soil is unusable), aerate the soil and hoe deeply. For successful cultivation, it requires finding warm, moist, and well-aerated soil, hence the interest in working it with manual tools to prepare for planting. You can then enrich the soil with potting soil or compost (homemade is perfect!).
Once the crops are sown or transplanted into square plots and arranged in lines (to facilitate maintenance), mulch. This step involves placing plant residues (dead leaves, branches, dried grass, ferns) at the base of the plants to recreate humus as found in nature.
Leave the more delicate crops (strawberries, cucurbits, tomatoes, basil) for May. Some flowers like violets, daffodils, and hyacinths can be planted, but ideally, sow flowering fallows.
Finally, take care of the lawn, removing moss, filling holes with special grass seed, and feeding it with fertilizer.
Remember maintenance tasks: weeding, watering, and hoeing (1 hoeing is worth 2 waterings).
If you proceed this way, your garden will be most prolific this summer!
