Do you spend a lot of money to
maintain your beautiful garden? Is there any way to reduce the cost of
landscape maintenance? Even though a garden requires continuous maintenance,
this does not meant we need to spend a lot of money for the maintenance. Learn
how we can set up a low maintenance garden. It will allow us to spend more time enjoying
us garden and less time toiling over it.
First of all you need to find your garden or landscape location where it has a high potential to bloom.
Ensure the place you choose can get sufficient light exposure. Then you should keep it away from placing it
in an area where there is too much scorching sun or hot summer winds. This will force you to constantly water your
plants to reduce the heat.
Choose the best quality of soil
for your garden. You can use top soil it is called the organic layer. This layer
is about an inch thick and the organic layer is rich in nutrients. Test your
soil to see whether it needs fertilizers or amendments. Improve the soil by
recycling materials such as grass clippings and leaves found around your home.
Keep your garden simple but yet
it still comprises all the necessary of the basic element for landscape design.
Simplicity is the key to a low maintenance garden. Do not make your garden full
of unwanted plants by adding some extras such as water features, wildlife
feeders, and such, for example, requires more maintenance. So try to avoid it
and just stress on your main landscape theme.
Select only several types of
plant for your landscape design. Do your research and decide what the best
combination for the plant to be put on. You can plant them in mass and by
having same kind of flower or shrub growing together it makes our maintenance easier.
They will have the same requirements and you can provide necessities such as
the proper amount of water and fertilizer all at once.
Place your flower beds slightly narrow
in design so that you can get to the plants easily. Ensure you have an easy
access to the plant and no obstruction. If you find your flower beds have a
wide path, provide stepping stones or a path which makes easy access possible.
But this will increase an extra cost for you thus prepare your landscape design
properly.
If you are searching what is the
best for your lawns I am suggesting you to go for ground covers instead of
grass. If you use grass for your lawns it requires constant mowing, watering
and treatments for weed control and fertilizer. However by using ground covers it
helps you eliminate those chores. As a result you can reduce your maintenance
cost.
Another thing is you can build
patios and decks to ease your gardening chores. You can put your plants in pots
that are easy to maintain and change out. Then you also can build edging around
beds and trees to help make mowing easier.
Before buy any plants you need to
check the quality first. You buy only a good quality of plants that are either
native to your area or easy to adapt your climate. Carefully look and verify your plants for pest damage and be sure they are healthy. A healthy plant will cultivate
more easily and make less work for us.
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