The design of the garden is usually neglected when building a new home. If the new house shines in all its splendor, the barren, desolate property is an eyesore. Although the budget for many homeowners no longer allows much in this phase, with a little skill you can still create an attractive and easy-care garden. These tips show how it works.
How can you make a garden attractive in a new building?
In order to create an attractive and easy-care garden for a new building, you should plan comprehensively, carry out the implementation in stages, create a natural fence, plant fast-growing shrubs and create a combined ornamental and kitchen garden. Children's play areas and functional walkways can be added later.
Plan comprehensively – implement it in stages
Scarce funds are no reason to forego the garden of your dreams. Your green kingdom with a magnificent ornamental garden and productive kitchen garden will not be created overnight. Therefore, give your vision a concrete form as part of comprehensive planning.
The implementation will take place in stages over the coming years. The first steps to clear the property require a lot of effort and time. This pioneering phase does not necessarily involve a high financial outlay. Cost-intensive work, such as paving or building walls, can be bridged inexpensively with simple interim solutions. Walkways on the site are created with gravel or bark mulch before the money is available for paving work.
Peace is the top priority – you should pay attention to this
Protecting from prying eyes is at the top of the list of important work in the new garden. A natural fencing made of bushes is very popular with new homeowners. Since man-sized trees come at a hefty price, proceed as follows:
- Acquire fast-growing shrubs as small root products, such as hornbeam or forsythia for 1 euro each
- Place the young plants in the loosened soil enriched with compost in autumn
- Set up inexpensive reed mats with a height of 200 cm towards the street and neighbors
With this trick you can enjoy your privacy in the new garden right from the start and can wait in peace until the bushes have reached an opaque height.
Ideal solution for the start – the combined ornamental and kitchen garden
As a home gardener new to the job, we recommend a phase of trying and studying to get started. The classic shape of the cottage garden offers you the ideal opportunity to do this. For this purpose, create four beds of the same size with a cross.
You grow vegetables in the individual beds, sorted according to heavy feeders, medium feeders and weak feeders. By changing the vegetables in the bed every year, the soil does not become depleted. Between the vegetables you can sow flower seeds according to your mood, from A, like columbine, to Z, like zinnias. You can read exactly how the ingenious concept of the cottage garden works here.
Tip
The family garden is only complete when a corner is set up for your children to play and run around. A swing, a playhouse and a sandpit start things off. Climbing frames and other attractions will be added later if financial resources allow. Once your children have outgrown their play age, a rolled turf covers the sandy area in no time and the playhouse becomes a tool shed.
