The best ideas, tips and tricks

The location determines the choice of plants

Of course you want to choose your plants according to your own taste. There is little objection to this. However, cover that in a dry location you need to water a water-loving plant very often, and sun-seeking plants in the shade will not show the desired flowering. So choose the plants that are comfortable there and you will get the most benefit with the least amount of work.

Plant ground cover

Where there are no plants, weeds thrive. If possible, leave little or no areas free in your bed, then weeds hardly stand a chance. As a gap filler, you can use so-called ground cover very well. They usually stay quite low, but spread out well. If necessary, however, they can also be easily cut back.

Cover a bed with bark mulch

Your bed will also be easy to care for if you add bark mulch to it cover

. This way, fewer weeds grow there and the soil is naturally kept moist. This reduces the amount of water required. It is Bark mulch not only useful but also very decorative.

Tips and tricks in brief:

• Choose plants that are suitable for the location
• Plant ground cover
• Apply bark mulch

The easy-care vegetable patch

You are also allowed to have your vegetable patch mulch. So you don't have to water or weed there so often. Bring that Mulch(€ 13.95 at Amazon *) but only out in the bed when the young vegetable plants are already looking out of the ground, otherwise the mulch layer will make it difficult for them to grow too.

You can harvest many plants throughout the summer if you do not immediately cut off the whole plant but only parts of it. This applies, for example, to Swiss chard and spinach, but also to so-called pick salad. Here they do not harvest heads, but individual leaves. Perennial vegetables are another alternative.