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Carrying Out Rock Garden Maintenance.

By: Rick Skew

When you have made a rock garden or a raised bed by observing the fundamental rules, then routine maintenance ought to be a clear-cut task. It should not entail as much skill as required in the pruning of fruit trees nor the heavy work demanded in your vegetable plot. You should not be troubled by weeds for some time and your plants should thrive in the well drained, gritty conditions that you should have supplied for them. But regular maintenance is absolutely not something one can ignore. Leave a shrub border untended for just a season and no great harm should result, but leave a rock garden for a year and it can be ruined.

Treat rock garden care as a routine once-a-week job during the growing season, in the same way as you might treat house plant and lawn maintenance. Weed control should be the major task. Keep the area free from dead plants and debris, and water only when essential. Dead-head spent flowers where practical, particularly if the variety of plant can become a nuisance by self seeding. Label plants which die down for part of the year.

Autumn is the chief overhaul time of the year. All fallen leaves must be removed and your stems of rampant plants must be cut back. You should not leave this job for the spring. Cover winter sensitive plants. In spring renew the grit mulch, feed, remove winter protection, firm plants which have become lifted by frost and search for slug damage.

All this advise may have arrived too late for you - the rockery may already have been over-run by weeds and it is covered with straggly rampant alpines caused by past neglect. There is not an easy answer. You will have to start again. Remove the soil from the affected area, replace it with new planting mixture after which you can replant.

Weeding Your Garden:
Weeding your garden is one of them most tedious of all maintenance jobs, and prevention is so much easier than cure. Start at construction time, make certain that the planting location is free from all perennial weeds and that all weed roots have been removed from your topsoil used for creating the planting mixture. As described below, a mulch of grit on rockery and raised bed gardens or bark on peat gardens will help to prevent weeds.

It is unfortunate that however careful you are at the construction stage, weeds still emerge and they need to be tackled promptly as dwarf plants such as alpines can easily be swamped by them. You have a variety of sources of these weeds, and you are able to cut down the work of weeding if you take preventive measures. Firstly, weeds are often brought in with plants that you buy, always check carefully and pull out stems and roots of any weeds which are growing on the soil surface of the pot.

Next, perennials can creep in from surrounding land so try to create some type of weed-proof barrier if this is likely. Finally, weed seeds can be blown on to your site - do not forget that this includes the seed from nearby rock garden plants which readily produce self-sown seedlings. Dead-heading and weed control in surrounding land should reduce this problem.

Hoeing is not practical where a grit mulch is used. Pulling out weeds by hand is the usual method to tackle the situation, you might want to trowel if the roots are firmly anchored. Of course, not all self-sewn alpines are weeds, you may only want to pull out seedlings that happen to be growing where they aren’t wanted. Perennial weeds are a tricky problem when the roots are too deep and widespread to be removed. The answer here is to paint the leaves very carefully with glyphsate - never spray weed killers and never use lawn-type ones.

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A fantastic quantity of my time is spent in my garden, but as I am getting older and things are getting harder to do. I have decided to use a company called Tree Surgeon. Up to now they have given me all the help and advice that I have asked for. I still do a bit of pottering around my own garden.

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