the goal is to relax in the garden. low maintenance is not no maintenance
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The Goal is to relax in the Garden
LOWMaintenance
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
• Is it a weed• Is it a slug• Is it a bug• Is it a worm• Is it a pathogen/disease
KNOW THY PEST
Verticillium Wilt
Leaf Rollers
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
• Perennial• Deep taproot• Edible• Hand pull, but get all of
the root• Burn out• Hot water treatment
CHICKWEEDStellaria media
• 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
