Ground covers are a great way to plant beds nicely while keeping weeds at bay.
You can find out which plants are suitable here.
Weeds are a constant thorn in the side of most hobby gardeners.
With a lot of effort and work, the wild growth can be removed from the beds, but not every corner of the garden is easy to reach.
It can be more difficult to remove the weeds, especially on slopes and embankments.
Ground cover is an effective remedy: As the name suggests, these plants cover the soil so well that weeds * hardly stand a chance.
Fighting weeds: These are the benefits of ground cover
If you
choose
ground cover as a weed control
, you not only save yourself the annoying plucking, but you can also enjoy other advantages.
Ground cover protects the earth from
drying out
when the sun is blazing, for example
, and conversely, when it rains, there is less
erosion
.
If you plant the ground cover under trees, you don't even need to
remove fallen leaves
in autumn
: the plants help to decompose the leaves and even receive fertilizer.
Even from a purely visual
point of view
,
evergreen ground covers
look more
attractive
in the garden.
Especially on dreary winter days, they provide a little green in the garden, as they form a dense carpet of soil.
The choice and possibilities are huge: Ground cover comes in the form of shrubs, perennials or climbing plants.
These ground covers are perfect against weeds
Bergenia
Fat man
Elven flower
Dog-ear
Lady's mantle
Funkie
Crawler
Lungwort
Purple bells
Carpet knotweed
thyme
Wollziest
Ysander
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This is how ground cover displaces the weeds
Ground cover can kill weeds in a variety of ways.
Thyme spreads over its
roots
, while the carpet knotweed
forms
runners above ground
.
Some make
life difficult
for weeds with
creeping rhizomes (stem axis system)
.
But spreading, bushy growth is sometimes enough to get rid of weeds.
For example, the soft lady's mantle or grasses such as Japan grass are known for this.
Before
planting your ground cover, it
is definitely
important
that you remove all bits of roots from the soil.
Weeds such as couch grass or groundweed can sprout from them.
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