For many hobby gardeners, a flower bed should primarily be decorative, while a vegetable bed should be more useful. This often requires a lot of work. However, you can make this work a lot easier if you make your garden bed easy to care for from the start.

Native plants and ground cover are easier to care for

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 that. However, be aware that a water-loving plant in a dry location will need to be watered very frequently, and sun-loving plants in the shade will not flower as they should. So choose the plants that thrive there and you'll get the most benefit with the least amount of work.

Plant ground cover

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

Cover a bed with bark mulch

Your bed will also be easy to care for if you cover it with bark mulch. This means that fewer weeds grow there and the soil is kept moist in a natural way. This reduces the amount of water required. Bark mulch is not only useful but also very decorative.

Tips and tricks in brief:

  • choose site-appropriate plants
  • Plant ground cover
  • Apply bark mulch

The easy-care vegetable patch

You can also mulch your vegetable patch. So you don't have to water as often or pull weeds there. Only apply the mulch (€239.00) to the bed when the young vegetable plants are already sticking out of the ground, otherwise the mulch layer will also make it difficult for them to grow.

You can harvest many plants throughout the summer if you don't cut off the whole plant immediately but only parts of it. This applies, for example, to chard and spinach, but also to so-called pickled lettuce. Here they don't harvest heads but individual leaves. Another alternative are perennial vegetable plants.

tips

Creating a low-maintenance bed requires a little thought, but saves you a lot of work.

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Garden design