Preparing your home for viewers is important. It will not only ensure your property is sold faster, but can potentially add thousands of pounds to its value. Here are 3 effective home gardening tips to increase home value, including: maintaining your lawn, defining lawn edges and adding a touch of colors.
Maintaining your Lawn
Avoid the tendency to put off weekly landscaping tasks. Doing so can cause your landscape to fall into ruin. This would mean having to hire a landscaper to fix the issue. There are many ways to keep yard intact without spending hours on a daily basis with it. The following tips will help you consistently manage the outside of your home:
- Mow the lawn: The lawn should be between ½ and ¾ inches high. If you cut it too short, the grass could die. If you let it grow too high, it can mar the beauty of your home exterior.
- Pick up broken branches: If you have trees in the front yard, take the time to cull the branches and pick up the pieces. It makes your front yard look well-kept and cared for.
- Trim overgrown shrubbery: Shrubs can be a major high point or low point for the front yard. Make sure you trim away excess branches and keep it short and thin so it doesn’t take all of the attention.
- Trim ivy away from windows and doorways: Prospective homeowners want to be able to see out the windows and not fight to get in the door. If you have wall ivy, make sure you trim it appropriately.
- Weed the gardens: While some weeds can blend into the landscape, there are others sticking out like a sore thumb. Make sure to remove them quickly and apply weed killer when necessary to prevent more growing. Source: Investopedia
Defining Lawn Edges
At the very least mow and edge your lawn. Edging your lawn makes a garden (or yard) look restrained and tamed, which gives it the appearance of lower maintenance – a popular selling point. Creating an edge is easy and can be as simple as using a sharp spade to cut a neat separation between your lawn and garden bed, path or fence. Alternatively, you can use a physical barrier such as timber, steel, brick or stone. Source: Domain
Adding a Touch of Colors
Entranceways will benefit with welcoming planters that have clipped topiary. Fill garden pots with bright flowering perennials and annuals, as this will immediately give a lift to the appearance of your garden. Once your home is sold, you can always take the plants with you to your new garden. Source: VegetableGardener
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