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The Goal is to relax in the Garden LOW Maintenance 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 KNOW THY PEST • Is it a weed • Is it a slug • Is it a bug • Is it a worm • Is it a pathogen/disease 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 CHICKWEED Stellaria 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 annieb@dennis7dees 503.969.4697