THE LOW WEED GARDEN

Coming home from work and enjoying your garden without having to do anything right away: that’s what we all want! These 5 tips from blogger Kristel will help you stay on top of the weeds.

1. Choose a lawn (and garden happiness!)
Paving your garden is indeed an option to nip weeds in the bud, but it’s not very inspiring. Green is the most refreshing choice in every respect: for animal life, for drainage, because it is soothing and because it is a basic requirement for garden happiness. According to this basic rule, you should fill at least two-thirds of the garden area with greenery. That may sound like a lot, but when you consider that this includes a lawn, it’s not so bad. A lawn can easily cover a third of your garden and save you maintenance costs. Of course, weeds may pop up from time to time between the blades, but in the end, it is a lot less work than a flower bed.

2. Tackle root weeds
Annual weeds are easy to pull out, but unfortunately the same cannot be said of perennial weeds. Pests such as horsetail, ground elder and field bindweed in particular can go on a rampage with their root systems and start to dominate your life. Because the broken off roots keep sprouting, the battle is always lost. I have spoken to many gardeners about how to deal with these root weeds and the advice comes down to these three points: A) Keep picking away and exhausting the plants so they don’t have the strength to reproduce. B) If you really want to get rid of them, dig up the root layer of the border concerned and throw all the garden plants with which the root weeds are intertwined on the compost heap. C) Ask the nursery owner about plants with strong root systems; these will overgrow the root weeds and you will actually learn to live with them.

Coming home from work and enjoying your garden without having to do anything right away: that’s what we all want! These 5 tips from blogger Kristel will help you stay on top of the weeds. 1. Choose a lawn (and garden happiness!) Paving your garden is indeed an option to nip weeds in the bud,…