The Goal is to relax in the Garden. LOW Maintenance is not NO Maintenance.

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

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

• 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

Annie Bamberger

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