Ground covers are particularly practical for gardeners who don't have much time, because they are usually easy to care for.
If you plant berries, you can also harvest them.
Ground covers are a popular alternative to lawns.
Since they spread quickly, you can design the garden with relatively little effort and they also suppress unwanted weeds.
Berries are excellent as ground cover and have the advantage that they can be harvested in summer.
Berries as ground cover: plants you can snack on
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Ground covers like wild strawberries are useful because you can harvest them.
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If you don't always want to rely on the usual suspects such as soapwort, ivy or woodruff when it comes to groundcover, you should use groundcover berries.
The following varieties are available:
Wild strawberries: The hardy plant in this country is extremely popular in gardens because it grows vigorously and persistently up to 25 centimeters high and also has evergreen leaves.
Whether sunny or partially shaded - the wild strawberry thrives in many places in the garden and also thanks you with delicious, small fruits that taste best on their own.
Forest blueberry: This type of berry is also suitable as a ground cover because it spreads quickly with moderate growth.
The forest blueberry needs a similar location as the forest strawberry.
They do not require pruning and the fruits are harvested in midsummer.
Cranberries: As they are extremely hardy and hardy, cranberries are also ideal as edible ground cover.
If the soil is rich in humus and acidic, they even thrive without direct sun.
They are harvested until October.
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If you have children or pets who often play in the garden without paying attention to the subsoil, you will appreciate walk-on ground covers such as Ysander, Lesser Periwinkle or the Foam Flower.
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