Preparing Backyard for Summer with Cosh Living

5 Ways to Ready your Backyard for Summer

Summer is here and we can all come out of hibernation! This includes our patio furniture, BBQs and our neglected backyards. Now is the time to get your backyard ready for summer and all the fun it will bring. Everyone wants their backyard ready for barbecues, warm weather and summer holidays right? Here's 5 handy tips to help you ready your backyard for spring.

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1. Clean up your garden
Throughout the winter your garden will have been exposed to the elements and the plants dormant. To ensure that you have beautiful garden beds with blossoming flowers - make sure you clear any broken branches, fallen leaves and other debris from in and around your plants. This will give new plants the room to sprout and make your garden lovely and tidy. It is important to keep this maintenance up so that you always have a fresh looking garden - overflowing with greenery and vibrant flowers. Deadheading your drooping flowers and keeping the garden beds clear is very important for the garden's health and the general look of your backyard.

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2. Heating
Whilst the worst of the cold is over for the year - there are still some cool or downright chilly nights during summer. What is better than a warm fire to sit by and relax with family and friends? There are many different options for heating in your own backyard. Cosh Living has a broad range of outdoor heating designs that cater for every need and style. These include: fire pits, fire bowls, Lanterns and more. No matter what your outdoor setup - heating is essential to keeping yourself and guests warm and comfortable on those enjoyable but chilly nights.

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3. Ready your outdoor furniture
No doubt your outdoor furniture has been hibernating like you. It is time to freshen it up for all the summer fun you will have in your backyard. Pull out your furniture, dust it off, wash it down and make sure it is functioning as it should be. If there are any repairs needed to your outdoor dining set - see to it now. Perhaps your wooden furniture needs a sand and a varnish? Are your weather-safe cushions looking tired? Replacement covers are always an option at Cosh Living. Outdoor cushions are made locally in high quality outdoor fabric in a colour of your choosing to suit your personal style. If you don't have any outdoor furniture and would like to make the most of your backyard over Summer - look no further than Cosh Living for all your furnishing needs.

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4. Is your BBQ ready for work?
It is always a great idea to make sure your BBQ is in working order before you go throwing gatherings and parties in your fantastic looking backyard. Make sure you give the grill on your BBQ a thorough clean as well as making sure all the working parts are indeed working as they should be. If your BBQ is looking a little worse for wear or isn't living up to your outdoor entertaining needs - now is the perfect time to upgrade.

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5. Let there be light
It would be quite embarrassing to invite friends over for a summer evening in your fantastic backyard - only for them to be eating in the dark! The stars aren't always enough and what happens if it is cloudy? Make sure all your outdoor lights are in working order. If you are about to install or buy some outdoor lighting - the following are some favourites of ours: fairy lights, lanterns, rechargeable LED decorative lights, spotlights fitted in and around the garden and even solar powered stake lights. The right lighting will set the mood for your event.

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Using these 5 tips to ready your backyard for summer means that you will be ready to enjoy all that this season has to offer. It also means that when summer comes around you are more than ready to enjoy hot days and cool nights with friends and family in your fantastic and well equipped backyard.