You might not think of it as cleaning, but it’s important that you keep your garden looking just as good as the interior of your home. In fact, it may be even more important. The first thing people will see when they arrive at your home is the exterior, and if it looks cluttered, they may immediately decide that you aren’t a very clean person. Here are some tips on keeping your back garden clean and inviting to everyone.
• The most obvious tip is to keep rubbish out of your garden. Many times, the rubbish that accumulates in your garden isn’t yours. It gets blown over from your neighbours, or sometimes people throw rubbish out of their cars (even though this is littering and can carry a fine). You can turn this into a game for your children if you don’t want to keep up with it. Offer them a small amount of money (a bit of change) for every piece of rubbish they pick up out of the garden.
• If you subscribe to newspapers or other items that are left on the porch or outside the front door, be sure to pick them up each day. Don’t let three or four days accumulate. Besides making your garden look cluttered, it’s a waste of money to subscribe to a newspaper and then not read it.
• Try to keep your porch, or at least the area around your front door, free of clutter. If you use yard or gardening tools, put them away after you’re finished with them. Roll up your garden hoses as well. Don’t leave an item out with the intention of putting it away later - you probably won’t.
• The exterior of your home presents a cleaning task that the interiors usually don’t: dirt and mud. If you see your pathways or porches looking dirty, take the hose pipe and rinse them off.
• You may also want to rake the leaves off of your garden or rake up the loose grass after you mow. While not raking doesn’t create quite the eye-sore that rubbish in your gardendoes, it can give your home a messy look.
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