Easter weekend is one of the most popular times of the year for DIY projects. From painting and grouting, to installing tiles and gardening, a lot of household maintenance tasks will take place during this long weekend. With the arrival of warmer weather, it’s no surprise that gardening tasks often take precedence. But what are the most popular gardening tasks for Easter weekend? And what should you be sure to tackle?
What are the most popular gardening tasks for Easter weekend?
There are a number of popular and effective gardening tasks that are often carried out over the Easter weekend, including:
- Spring cleaning the garden
- Planting projects
- General maintenance and repairs
- Repairing garden edging
Spring cleaning the garden this Easter weekend
After the awful winter weather, most gardens are in need of a good tidy up. One of the first jobs many people tackle is a thorough spring clean. This usually involves clearing away dead leaves, pruning back overgrown shrubs, and removing any plants that didn’t survive the cold months. Some of the important tasks for this include:
- Raking leaves and debris from lawns and flowerbeds
- Cutting back dead or damaged branches from trees and shrubs
- Trimming hedges to neaten them up
- Cutting back last year’s perennial plant growth to encourage new shoots.
- Clean off the garden furniture, pathways and patios
All of this can make your garden look fresh, revived, and ready for use.
Planting projects
One of the most popular gardening tasks for Easter weekend is planting. A wide range of flowers, vegetables, and herbs are often in stock at this time of year, so you can choose what you would like to grow.
If you enjoy growing your own food, you can begin planting early crops such as potatoes, onions, carrots, and lettuce over the Easter weekend. For more delicate vegetables, like tomatoes and courgettes, you might want to get these started in pots indoors or in a greenhouse, before moving them into the garden at a later date.
If you want to add some colour and fun to your garden, flowers can be the perfect choice. Easter is the perfect time of year for planting colourful bedding plants like pansies, primroses, and violas, which all thrive in the cooler spring temperatures. You can also plant summer flowering bulbs such as lilies, gladioli, and dahlias, for colour and vibrance later in the year.
General maintenance and repairs
Easter weekend provides plenty of time for maintenance and repairs in the garden. This can include weeding, mowing the lawn, feeding plants, and checking for pests or diseases.
At this time of year, weeding is particularly important, as they will begin to grow rapidly as the temperatures heat up. Removing them early prevents them from spreading and competing with your plants, so this is a good way to reduce maintenance tasks further down the line.
Another key job is repairing or replacing damaged garden structures. Fencing, trellises, and sheds often suffer over winter and may need attention. It’s also a good time to oil hinges, check tools, and sharpen blades, so everything is in top condition for the months ahead.
Repairing garden edging
Finally, you should not overlook the importance of repairing and replacing your garden edging. This can make a big difference to the aesthetic design of your garden, as well as bringing a range of practical benefits.
Garden edging is used for a range of tasks, including separating lawns from borders, pathways from flowerbeds, or defining vegetable patches, but winter frost and heavy rain can shift or damage the edging materials. This is particularly problematic for wooden edging, which may rot, plastic edging, which may have cracked, and stone or brick edging that can become frost damaged, cracked or loose. As a result, you should take some time to inspect your garden edging, and replace or realign where necessary.
Installing new edging is also a great Easter project. For flexible, long lasting and durable garden edging, FlexiBorder is the number one choice. This is made from recycled tyres, which means that it is resistant to weather and UV damage, as well as being able to flex up to 70 degrees. For more information or advice about your new garden edging, why not take a look today, here at FlexiBorder?
