Filling open spaces in the front yard or on graves with decorative ground covers is a practical and little-work-requiring thing. If you also want to save money with the starting culture, you can also switch to sowing instead of planting out.
The morning glory can be best multiplied by seeds
Sow ground cover instead of planting
In order to close an area with ground cover, it is usually recommended to plant fully formed plants. In some cases, this certainly makes sense. Especially when the area to be greened is heavily characterized by weed growth and unfavorable soil conditions. Such conditions can make it difficult for the groundcover to establish itself. It is precisely those varieties that do not grow vigorously and spread less aggressively than some competing root weeds that do not have it easy to conquer their area.
Planting out is a somewhat more promising method for ground cover culture, but it also has disadvantages. On the one hand, it is more labor-intensive - after all, the soil must be carefully prepared, cleared of weeds and, depending on the soil conditions, also improved with compost and sand. On the other hand, buying ground cover plants by the meter - of course depending on the size of the area to be planted - can be quite expensive compared to seeds. Under certain circumstances, you can also save yourself these expenses.
These circumstances should be a prerequisite:
- Ground area to be closed should not be too predefined (no small plots between other plants in the bed)
- Soil should not be overburdened with root weeds
- Ground cover variety should be more vigorous
Which varieties are suitable for sowing
Many ground covers that like poor soil can be seeded well. Because areas that are less plagued by stubborn root weeds such as goutweed or couch grass are more suitable for this anyway. Ground covers that are easy to sow include:
- Sweet Stone Rich / Seaweed - very fast-growing
- Real Germander - forms foothills, for heath gardens
- Felty tomentosum - fast growing, for rock gardens
- Morning glory - spreads quickly, blooms decoratively
- Yellow sedum - very hardy, for rock gardens
- Bald Breakweed - fast growing, evergreen
- Creeping Soapwort - very vigorous, for embankment greening
Many of the annual ground covers also have the advantage that they can easily reseed themselves. So if you want to permanently decorate a strip of wall or an embankment with it, you usually don't have to worry about it after the first sowing.