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Prepare your garden optimally for your vacation

Of course, this also means that you don't just drive away without any preparation. Instead, there are a few measures to prepare the plants in the garden for an absence and to create a few days of buffer in advance. This includes the following activities:

• Thoroughly cultivate and chop the soil between the plants again.
• Water all plants well and abundantly.
• Mulching The root area so that less moisture simply evaporates.
• What can be cut back, cut back!
• This reduces evaporation and thus water consumption.
• However, this only works with plants that are compatible with pruning.
• Don't be afraid to remove flowers and large leaves as well.
• With crops you harvest what can be harvested - many vegetables and fruits still ripen.

Under no circumstances should you fertilize before your departure! This strongly stimulates the growth and metabolism of the plants and thus only increases the need for water.

Hire a plant sitter

The easiest way to water the plants while on vacation is a plant sitter - that is, neighbors, friends or family members, who take care of the garden and, as a thank you, are allowed to take vegetables and fruit with them and maybe a nice souvenir from a trip obtain. Make sure that your vacation replacement does not have to travel too long and, if possible, leave them with detailed information instructions (e.g. B. Water the cucumber patch daily, the roses only every two days!). If you don't have neighbors or the family lives too far away, you can pay someone to do the job too. Schoolchildren or students are usually happy about a small additional income.

Install automatic irrigation system

If nobody is available, the only thing left to do after several weeks of absence is the installation of an automatic one Irrigation system. However, this is usually a Water and electricity connections necessary, after all, simple currentless irrigation systems, as you may be familiar with from potted or balcony plants, do not work in this case. Don't choose an irrigation system (unless you just want to water the lawn), choose drip irrigation. Finally, the leaves of perennials, shrubs, ornamental and Crops don't get wet.