Insight For A Great Landscaping Design With The Right Care And Attention
Your yard is more than just an area of grass growing around some trees and bushes that you keep alive with regular watering. Yard landscaping encompasses your home's exterior appearance and your property's condition and value, therefore it needs to be managed with more than a haphazard attitude. Here are some recommendations to help you keep healthy and attractive yard landscaping with proactive and attentive care.
Work on Weed Control
Keeping control of the weed growth in your yard is something you have to work at on a regular basis during the growing season. From early spring until late fall, there are going to be weeds sprouting through the soil to take over the nutrients and moisture in your yard. For this reason, take a proactive stance on weed growth by using all the weed prevention and control methods that your landscaping allows.
You can start out by treating any newly landscaped areas with a non-selective herbicide where there is already weed growth. Weeds that sprout up through any mulch should be easy for you to pull up and discard. Be sure to get the full root when you pull, otherwise, you should use a garden space to extract the root from its depth. Use a weed and feed lawn treatment on your grass in early spring before weeds emerge, then you won't have as many weeds to remove later on through the season. As weeds sprout up randomly, treat them with an herbicide or pull them when the soil is soft with moisture.
When you plan to lay a gravel or rock mulch covering, cover the soil with a landscape fabric barrier prior to the rock installation. This prevention will block the growth of weeds that are present in the soil already and will keep soil from combining with your rock.
Keep Your Landscaping Edges Neat
Diversity in the landscaping environment helps with erosion control and provides natural habitats for beneficial insects and wildlife, and also creates a beautiful vista that you can enjoy on a daily basis. Plan out these various areas in your landscaping with borders that you can keep clean and edged for a sharp contrast from one another.
Use materials for clean edging, such as concrete barriers, bricks, edging rock, and wood borders. Maintain and protect the borders with regular upkeep. For example, if you see that your brick edging has begun to sink into the soil after a couple of growing seasons, excavate the brick and set it into the soil and just above the existing landscaping for a sturdy barrier. Then, keep your lawn edged against the sides of the sidewalk, driveway, patios, and other surfaces so that growth does not overrun the hardscaping.
Reach out to your local landscaping company for help with landscape design.
