Transcript Effective tips for low maintenance Landscaping/Gardening

The Goal is to relax in the Garden
LOW
Maintenance
is not
NO
Maintenance
PLAN, PLAN, PLAN AHEAD
• Site
• Lifestyle
• Needs
• Desires
•Reality
•Tolerance
SITE ANALYSIS
• Sun /shade
• Wind
• Soil
• Hardscapes
• Trees
• Neighbor ‘s
• Flow
• Try to watch over
4 seasons
Do a soils test
• Learn what type of soil you are
dealing with
• What it needs to be feed
GENERAL RULE
#1 COMPOST, COMPOST COMPOST
Right Plant Right place
RIGHT PLANT RIGHT PLACE
• Place plants that
cohabitate
• Watch hardscapes
• Layer
• Keep flow going
Plant coverage = less weeding
FILL IT IN
KEY STEPS TO GOOD SOIL
PREP
• AMEND SOILS WITH CLEAN
COMPOST
• GOOD SOIL INTERGRATION
• SHEET MULCHING for Bed
preparation = Less labor
SHEET MULCHING
PLANT PROPERLY
BED CARE
MULCH,MULCH,MULCH
• MULCH
• MULCH
• MULCH
•MULCH
•MULCH
USE YOUR LEAVES AS MULCH
KNOW THY PEST
• Is it a weed
• Is it a slug
• Is it a bug
• Is it a worm
• Is it a pathogen/disease
Verticillium Wilt
Leaf Rollers
KNOW THY WEED
HAIRY BITTERCRESS/ WINTERCRESS
• Annual weed
• Flowers in the winter
with seed heads at the
same time, YIKES
• Does have a tap root
• Edible
• Hand weed
• Sheet mulch
DANDELOIN
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Perennial
Deep taproot
Edible
Hand pull, but get all of
the root
• Burn out
• Hot water treatment
CHICKWEED
Stellaria media
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Winter annual
Loves Turfgrass
Shallow, fibrous root
Hand pull
Sheet much
OXALIS, Red Wood Sorrel
• Perennial
• Flowers in the summer
time
• Stoloniferous roots
• Seeds can shoot up to
13 feet. YIKES
• Dig out
• Burn out
• Hand pull before seed
heads set
JAPANESE KNOTWEED
• YIKES
• Perennial
• Spreads by rhizomes
and seed
• Inject the stem with an
herbicide
LAWN CARE
KEY TIPS
• KNOW YOUR GRASS
• CUT SHORT IN SPRING and RAISE THE BLADES
ALL YEAR LONG
• HIGHER GRASS 1.5” to 2.5” REQUIRE
LESS WATER AND LESS MOWING
• Lime in spring and fertilize with ORGANICS
PRUNING
• PICK THE RIGHT PLANT FOR THE RIGHT
PLACE
• DON’T FIGHT NATURE
• DON’T Ball and box
• KNOW when the right
time to prune
The Goal is to relax in the Garden
Annie Bamberger
annieb@dennis7dees
503.969.4697