You may be counting down the days until your staycation or holiday and how much time you have left to get ready. Before you go spare a thought and perhaps an hour or two to get your garden staycation ready too. As you leave your routine for some days, perhaps a fortnight or even longer, how well will your garden cope as your staycation venue, or being left alone?
If you are exploring other parts of the UK in your staycation, you may be leaving your garden just when it needs us most, to water pots and baskets, to deadhead flowers and to pick fruit and vegetables. With luck a neighbour or close friend will be able to keep an eye on your garden when you are away, and if you are growing vegetables or cutting flowers, you can ask them to harvest produce as thanks for their efforts.
If you are staycationing at home, spending time preparing the garden for staycation will increase your leisure time to relax and enjoy.
Keep your plants watered
You may wish to invest in an automatic watering system, simple to set up, the basic clockwork versions enable you to water specific plants and pots once or twice a day. If you are thinking of installing a system, do it a week or so before you staycation, to allow you to make fine adjustments to watering duration and rate of flow, rather than interrupt your precious holiday time.
Tidy up before you staycation
Get staycation ready; give your grass a good mow, and trim the edges. If you are staycationing for longer, consider reducing the height of the blades so the grass gets cut shorter, a bit like having your hair cut before a holiday!
Once you have all these tasks covered you can start your staycation knowing your garden is cared for and will be still looking good when you return, relaxed and refreshed.
Whatever your holiday plans, here at Chopwell we wish you all very Happy Holidays!
