Creating a flowerbed without weeds »This way it remains easy to care for

Keeping the flowerbed weed-free - the best tips

Nature endeavors to vegetate any open area, fallow areas are not intended and are quickly conquered by pioneer plants. This completely natural phenomenon does not stop in the garden, however much you may resist it. Take care, however, in that any free areas in the bed are already "occupied" so that even the most vigorous ones will have it Weeds heavy.

Lay out weed control

A commercially available one Weed control(€ 13.47 at Amazon *) does a good job here. You simply lay the fleece over the entire bed area and cut a sufficiently large hole in the planting areas intended for the perennials. Plant the perennials and cover the fleece either with soil, with mulch material, gravel, Stones or pebbles.

Mulching

That too Mulching of flowerbeds have been shown to be effective against weeds.

Bark mulch for example is a natural material that slowly decomposes and has a positive influence on soil composition. However, bark mulch not only has advantages, but also disadvantages: This includes, for example, that that Material removes a great deal of nitrogen from the soil, which in turn is no longer available to the plants stands. The workaround for this problem, however, is to be generous before mulching Horn shavings(€ 32.93 at Amazon *) spread and work in easily. Lawn cuttings or straw are also very suitable for mulching, but cannot reliably prevent weeds.

Plant ground cover

True to the motto that where something is already growing there will be no more weeds, flowering ground cover can be found wonderfully in the easy-care flowerbed insert. Species like the BalkansCranesbill (Geranium macrorrhizum), blood cranesbill (Geranium sanguineum), fat man (Pachysandra), Elven flower (Epimedium) or small periwinkle (Vinca minor) are effective both through their dense foliage and their pretty flowers.