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- How to create a low-maintenance bed - tips and tricks
- The location determines the plant selection
- Plant groundcover
- Cover a bed with bark mulch
- Tips and tricks coming soon:
- The easy-care vegetable patch
- Tips
Native plants and ground cover are easier to care for
How to create a low-maintenance bed - tips and tricks
A flowerbed should be decorative for many hobby gardeners, a vegetable patch, however, rather useful. That often requires a lot of work. However, this work can be made much easier if you create your garden bed from the outset easy to care for.
The location determines the plant selection
Of course you want to choose your plants according to your own taste. On the other hand, there is little objection. Cover, however, that you must water a water-loving plant in a dry location very often and sun-hungry plants in the shade do not show the desired flowering. So if you choose the plants that feel good there, then you have the greatest benefit for the least amount of work.
Plant groundcover
Where no plants grow, the weeds thrive. If possible, leave no or only small areas in your bed, then weeds have little chance. As a gap filler, you can very well use so-called ground cover. They usually stay pretty low, but spread well. If necessary, they can also cut back well.
Cover a bed with bark mulch
Your bed will also be easy to care for if you cover it with bark mulch. As a result, less weeds grow there and the soil is kept moist naturally. This reduces the required casting quantity. Bark mulch is not only useful but also very decorative.
Tips and tricks coming soon:
The easy-care vegetable patch
You can also mulch your vegetable patch. So you do not have to water there so often or weeding weeds. Only bring the mulch on the bed when the young vegetables are already looking out of the ground, otherwise the mulch layer will make them difficult to grow.
Many plants can harvest them throughout the summer if they do not immediately cut off the whole plant but only parts of it. This applies for example to chard and spinach, but also for so-called pickle salad. Here they do not harvest heads but single leaves. Another alternative is perennial vegetables.
Tips
Creating a low-maintenance bed requires only a little consideration, but saves you a lot of work.