Renowned garden bloggers answer wowOwow’s most digging questions.

Stop Purchasing Unnecessary Products

You can stop applying all products to your lawn. Just aerate, overseed in the fall and leave the grass clippings on the lawn. For a little money, the next smart thing to do is add a layer of compost in the fall or spring. —Susan Harris, GardenRant and Sustainable-Gardening

Definition Is Key

Trim it neatly, give your adjacent planting beds a crisp, defined edge, and mulch those beds to set off the lawn. Simple, inexpensive and effective. —Pamela Penick, founder of Digging and Penick Landscape Design

Clean, Clean, Clean!

Clean it up! Sweep walkways, dethatch the lawn, clean the siding, wash the windows, trim the hedges, mulch and weed the flowerbed, sweep the roof. Don’t forget the front door — give it a coat of paint if needed and clean and shine the hardware. Clean up the doormat or buy a new one. Put out a cheerful pot of flowers and hang a season-suitable wreath or other door decoration. Get a hose reel and put the hose away. Really look at your house and take care of all that deferred maintenance — what a difference it will make and people will notice! —Patricia Blais, creator and author of Gardensablaze.com

Add Decorative Mulch

The most cost-efficient way to enhance the curb appeal of your front yard is to add decorative mulch to your garden bed. Mulch not only retards weed growth and helps the soil retain moisture, mulch gives a yard a clean, finished look and doesn’t have to be watered! There are over 100 organic and inorganic mulches to choose from to compliment any garden style. Some of my favorites include recycled peach pits, tumbled recycled glass, sea shells, wine corks (in my herb garden) and broken mosaic pieces. Read more about "The Art of Mulching 101" on EdenMakers Blog. —Shirley Bovshow, garden design expert and blogger at ShirleysGarden.com, EdenMakers.com and GardencenterTV.com

Integrate Vegetables

A pretty way to enhance curb appeal in the front yard would be to build a raised bed and fill it with vegetables and flowers. Vegetables can actually look very pretty growing among flowers and the flowers help draw pollinating insects to your vegetables. A truly win-win situation! —Cynthia Thompson, author of Brambleberries in the Rain

Save Pennies With Simple Pizzazz

A person thinks that they have to have these huge flower gardens, but quite frankly, in these economic times, the average gardener doesn’t have the money or the time to put into such lavish gardens. My garden is small, but striking. My main suggestion is to pick a focal point in your yard/garden to dress it up with what I call "garden jewelry" — adding a simple bird bath, bird house, large boulder, statue, lights or pot/urn to your garden. Something to draw your eye in and give it pizzazz. Another suggestion in these eco-friendly times is container gardening — virtually growing a garden in containers, pots or urns. We live in a time where we have more home and less yard to grow gardens. You can have a gorgeous garden — vegetables or flowers — simply by planting them in containers and putting them on your porch. You can grow all kinds of vegetables, flowers, vines, bushes, etc., all within a container. —Jennifer L. Scott, aka "Miss Daisy," executive assistant for Fusion-io and founder of Gardening With Miss Daisy

Switch to Annuals

Annuals are inexpensive and flower all summer long. Buy a flat of flowers and plant them in containers to brighten up your front porch. —Jessica, author of The Garden Blog of a girl growin’ Southern

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