Planter Bed Care
Planter Beds as Good Landscape Design
Planter beds make up a nearly essential element in any good landscape plan. Planter beds break up mass space use monotony (like overly large lawns, parking lots or too much space dedicated to one element). Planter beds add clear, well-defined borders to other sections of your grounds. In addition, planter beds serve as excellent places to plant contrasting and highlighting plants, as well as flowers.
Planter Bed Maintenance in Reno
In Northern Nevada, typically planter beds are bordered by either a cement curb border, raised planterbed item, or rocks. And then the ground of the planter bed either has an organic mulch groundcover like bark, decorative gravel or inorganic like DG (decomposed granite). In fact, DG is one of the most popular groundcovers in a high-desert climate like ours. It matches well with our environment, and if compacted well, can suppress some surface level weeds.
However, planter beds do need some routine maintenance. Handpulling and spot spraying of weeds is a common one. This is especially true in our cooler, more moist spring. Also, trimming, shaping of bushes, and minor pruning, all help to making a planter bed looking good. Finally, as an added touch, if your planter bed has sand or DG, raking this and leaving it with either designed rake lines, or smooth consistent natural surface, will make your planter beds stand out.
In addition to weeding, planter beds occasionally need remulching. This is the process of removing old, decomposed mulch, and replacing with newer fresh mulch. Mulch helps lower water evaporation, saving you water, as well as reducing weed growth, if thick enough. Plus, over time, mulch loses its attractive color. So remulching makes your planter beds stand out with bold color.
Planter Bed Care Results
In addition to weeding, planter beds occasionally need remulching. This is the process of removing old, decomposed mulch, and replacing with newer fresh mulch. Mulch helps lower water evaporation, saving you water, as well as reducing weed growth, if thick enough. Plus, over time, mulch loses its attractive color. So remulching makes your planter beds stand out with bold color.
