Garden Feng Shui - 4 Simple Enhancements for Healthier Plants and Beauty

Looking to do a little garden feng shui to bring some special touches to your favorite “bit of earth”? Here are four garden tips that will create the energy and balance that will help enhance the health and appearance your garden…with a small prosperity booster added in!

1. Invite positive energy flows in and through your garden. Chi or qi is a term that means energy in Feng Shui. Is the pathway into your garden clear, wide and free of debris or clutter? If you have a fence around your garden with a gate, is the gate wide and inviting or small and hard to pass through? In order for positive Chi to flow in and through your garden it is important that the path leading in is open and inviting. 

Look at the rows between your plantings. Is there enough space for your vegetables to mature in a healthy way or are they cramped and crowded together? Some vegetables such as zucchini and pumpkins need a large area and tend to ‘take over’ garden space as they mature. When planting, design your rows with the needs of your plants in mind, and make sure there is 12” or so to walk easily between the rows.

2. Make sure you have quality topsoil. Start your garden off on the right foot by making sure you have a nice layer of healthy top soil for your plants to grow in. Where I grew up, we had very sandy soil…and on the other end of the spectrum, many soils are often too dense and have high clay content. Your garden needs a thick layer of topsoil in order for your vegetables and flowers to prosper. 

When introducing topsoil, be sure to blend compost materials or manure that has had a chance to age. This is best done in the springtime before planting, although you can do this in the fall as well. 

3. Weeds be gone! Your garden plants are going to be much healthier and happier without weeds devouring precious nutrients from the soil close to them. A close friend who has a spectacular country garden puts black roofing paper down between her rows of vegetables. This not only helps identify where to walk in her garden, it also helps in two other ways. 

First, it is easier to walk through the garden after rains – it’s no fun trudging through mud, after all! Secondly, the roofing paper doesn’t allow weeds to grow between the vegetable rows, as they cannot get the light they need to prosper.

Granted, the black paper isn't the most aesthetically pleasing, but it is a practical choice.

If you don’t want to use black roofing paper in-between rows, try some mulch instead. Wood chips are a good choice…even grass cut from your yard will work to conserve water and stop weeds before they have a chance to infiltrate.

Do your garden plants a favor and weed around them on a regular basis. Save your back and use a hoe – stop weeds right at the surface before they have a chance to take root. Hoeing helps aerate and prevents the soil from becoming hardened around your plants.

When it comes to weeding, what tends to work best is setting a little bit of time each day if possible so that those pesky weeds don’t get the upper hand!

4. Flowing water energy for attracting wealth and adding beauty to your garden. Is there a place for an energetic fountain in your garden? Fountains are water enhancements that are often used in Feng Shui for attracting prosperity and fostering good health. 

One location for your garden fountain would be right in the center of the garden or close to the entrance, which helps attract the positive flow of Chi. If you think about your garden layout in terms of the Bagua map, the center region is all about health and balance. Having a garden fountain not only brings wonderful energy flows for your thriving plants, it also brings wealth and abundance flows to your home as well.

I hope you’ve enjoyed these four tips, as they are an important part of good garden feng shui health and maintenance. They will definitely help your plants live a better quality of life, and bring more positive energy flows onto your property. Enjoy your prosperous and healthy garden now and always!

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