Gardening is not for the faint of heart, it is often time-consuming and requires a lot of work to keep your garden going strong. What if you could get a gorgeous garden without all that back-breaking work? Below are some tips and suggestions to get that beautiful garden with less effort.
Pick the right plants
If it’s low-effort gardening that you are after, it’s crucial that you pick the right kind of plants. Some paints are delicate and need daily care to thrive. For a beautiful garden with less effort, you will want to pick plants that can withstand different weather conditions and require minimum care.
Plants that would fall under the umbrella of being hardy and require low effort include succulents and cacti. These are particularly robust and don’t need a lot of watering to survive. The Swiss Cheese Plant, with its iconic whole-dotted leaves, and the Snake Plant, whose thick leaves are well known for their color variation, are other good options for effortless gardening. You will want to stay away from high-effort plants like orchids, which are native to hot climates and need a great deal of tending.
Uses mulch for less weeding and watering
Using mulch is a great strategy that often causes less weeding and watering needs but still results in a beautiful garden. Mulch can help limit the amount of weeding needed around plants because it provides a barrier that stops weeds from spreading and breaking through. Ultimately this means less weeding on your part. Mulch also helps the ground around your plant retain water, which means you won’t have to water them as much.
For mulch to be as effective as possible, it’s crucial that you put it down at the right time. Spring or autumn is considered a good time to lay mulch, but if you live in a cold climate, you should wait until the ground has thawed before you put mulch down.
Get your lawn under control
Lawns tend to make up the majority of home gardens, so if you want your outside space to be low effort you need to get your lawn under control. You will want to make sure you have selected the right type of grass for the location you live. There are many different types of grass seed, and not all of them thrive in every condition. For example, fine fescues and ryegrass grass tend to grow wetter in wet conditions, while Bermuda Grass and Zoysia are better for a dry climate. By getting the right type of grass for the climate in which you live, you’ll make maintaining it and keeping it lush and healthy much easier.
Also, when it comes to your lawn you’ll need to find a low-effort way of keeping it looking neat and tidy all year round. This means choosing an easy-to-push lawnmower even uphill with a full basket of grass. Another option is to invest in a robotic mower that you can set and forget, that will mow your lawn automatically for you.
Create a paved area
A paved area is another great way to create a low-effort but beautiful garden. This is because paved areas are much easier to maintain than grass and plants. Often, all they need is the occasional sweep, and a blast with the power washer once a year. Remember the more paving you have the less lawn maintenance you will need to do. Also, paved areas are very functional because they are the best place to set out tables, chairs, BBQs and other garden furniture.
Make use of pots
A great low-maintenance combination with paving stones is planting in pots. They can provide a wide range of benefits for the more relaxed gardener, including being able to easily change out what’s inside. Pots can be moved around the garden easily, ensuring that the plants inside get the conditions they need and that they can be placed in the most aesthetically pleasing places with the minimum of effort as well.
Try vertical planting
If the thought of walking miles to water your plants every day is too exhausting, why not grow the same amount of plants and crops over a much smaller footprint? This is precisely the system used in vertical planting. Planting vertically means setting up the infrastructure to plant upwards instead of outwards. Such infrastructures may include plant racks, pipes cut to house plants, and even wall-hanging gardens. Vertical gardens like this are not only great for those of us with small areas in which to plant, but they are also more sustainable, and require a lot less work to tend, and harvest.
Use watering and sprinkler systems
If you want a beautiful garden but don’t want to work hard to get it, then investing in a watering and sprinkler system is the best idea. Such a system will ensure that your plants, trees, and grass get all the water and plant food they need without you ever having to fill up a watering can.
One of the greatest things about sprinkler systems is that you can set them to go off automatically. That means you can choose the time of day, and even the time of year they go off, ensuring that your plants specifically get the water they need. You can also set them to go off when you are out of town, so you never need to worry that you will come back to wilted plants when you go away.
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