Keeping The Garden Clean

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Opening this topic, I would like to remind readers of the old adage that cleanliness in the house is not where they sweep all the time, but where they do not litter. From ourselves we can add that cleanliness is present for a long time with its regular maintenance, as well as with the rational organization of the garden plot. By the way, we have already raised a similar topic here in the article "Low-maintenance garden for busy people." We suggest continuing it. So how to maintain a hassle-free, comfortable and beautiful garden area, and how to spend less time cleaning and keeping it clean?

Rule of maintaining cleanliness in the garden 1 … Try not to initially plant "garbage" plants on your site. That is, which, when flowering, ripening, foliage fall off, give a lot of garbage. Or, do not plant them near objects that require frequent cleaning: places where you park your car, in areas where garden paths are laid, a seating area with a table and benches.

Rule 2. Think carefully about the types of plants used in the garden. For example, berry plants (for example, dogwood, mountain ash, hawthorn, mulberry, fruit trees), as well as those that produce sticky flowers (for example, linden) or needles, cones (conifers) should not be planted where their fruits and inflorescences can stain various surface. For example, a car standing under an elderberry bush will not only get its berries falling on it, but will also be soiled by the consequences of birds pecking at these berries.

Rule 3. Garden pergolas are often surrounded by climbing plants. Such plants are also often a source of garbage. In landscaping a garden, specialists for such cases recommend the use of so-called self-cleaning plants from their flowering. In such plants, it is not necessary to specially remove wilted flowers; they fall on their own, creating mulched material in the soil. These plants include ivy pelargonium, ivy roses.

Rule 4. So that flowers from the numerous pots in the garden do not fall off and do not cover the surface, plants should be planted whose petals do not crumble, for example, zonal pelargoniums. Also, see if you plan to plant the same plants around the pool. As any, even the weakest wind can instantly litter the surface of the pool from the nearest "garbage" plant.

Rule 5. When you harvest the grass in the garden, weeds, mow them with a lawn mower, you should immediately put the mown vegetation and other debris on a piece of film or tarpaulin in order to then pull it out of the site into compost, if the trimmings are not affected by bacteria and pests, or burn them at the border of the site, then add ash as a mulch to the plants.

But never leave grass, tree clippings, dried flowers lying on the lawn in the middle of the garden. Such "luxury residues" can serve as a breeding ground for many diseases for healthy vegetation in the garden.

Rule 6. Use mulching more often in the garden and cover agrofibre between rows of cultivated plants. Such techniques prevent the emergence of weeds in undesirable places, and also will not allow to spray the ground when watering on flowers, shrubs and trees, than to pollute their appearance.

Rule 7. Use specialized gardening equipment to simplify your garden work and reduce the time you spend caring for and cleaning your plants. In addition to the usual garden tools (brooms, shovels, fan rakes, flat shovels, buckets, baskets, etc.), pay attention to modern types of garden equipment. For example, on electric brooms, which can easily collect sand from paths, dry leaves, cut grass.

If you mow your lawn frequently, get a lawnmower with an integrated grass catcher box. This will simplify the collection of cut grass to a minimum. You just have to throw it into a compost pit or burn it.

If you have a hedge in your garden, purchase an electric brush cutter to care for it, to which a bag for sucking up artisanal scraps is attached. It will be easier to cut garden tree branches into small pieces with a mechanical shredder rather than garden shears.

Did you know that there are garden vacuum cleaners today? Such a vacuum cleaner has various modes of air supply and debris suction. The miracle vacuum cleaner will relieve not only of fallen leaves and small blades of grass, but even of snow dust and puddles on the garden path.