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The Goal is to relax in the Garden

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.

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The Goal is to relax in the Garden

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  1. The Goal is to relax in the Garden

  2. LOW Maintenance is not NO Maintenance

  3. PLAN, PLAN, PLAN AHEAD • Site • Lifestyle • Needs • Desires • Reality • Tolerance

  4. SITE ANALYSIS • Sun /shade • Wind • Soil • Hardscapes • Trees • Neighbor ‘s • Flow • Try to watch over • 4 seasons

  5. 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

  6. Right Plant Right place

  7. RIGHT PLANT RIGHT PLACE • Place plants that • cohabitate • Watch hardscapes • Layer • Keep flow going

  8. Plant coverage = less weeding

  9. FILLIT IN

  10. KEY STEPS TO GOOD SOIL PREP • AMEND SOILS WITH CLEAN COMPOST • GOOD SOIL INTERGRATION • SHEET MULCHING for Bed preparation = Less labor

  11. SHEET MULCHING

  12. PLANT PROPERLY

  13. BED CARE

  14. MULCH,MULCH,MULCH • MULCH • MULCH • MULCH • MULCH • MULCH

  15. USE YOUR LEAVES AS MULCH

  16. KNOW THY PEST • Is it a weed • Is it a slug • Is it a bug • Is it a worm • Is it a pathogen/disease

  17. Verticillium Wilt Leaf Rollers

  18. KNOW THY WEED

  19. 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

  20. DANDELOIN • Perennial • Deep taproot • Edible • Hand pull, but get all of the root • Burn out • Hot water treatment

  21. CHICKWEEDStellaria media • Winter annual • Loves Turfgrass • Shallow, fibrous root • Hand pull • Sheet much

  22. 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

  23. JAPANESE KNOTWEED • YIKES • Perennial • Spreads by rhizomes and seed • Inject the stem with an herbicide

  24. LAWN CARE

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. The Goal is to relax in the Garden

  28. Annie Bamberger annieb@dennis7dees 503.969.4697

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