How To Start Clearing An Overgrown Garden

This can mean several things.

How to start clearing an overgrown garden. Buy the proper equipment. Leave for a week or two re-spraying any perennial weeds that. Rake up the strimmings and pop onto the compost heap.

Clear the rubbish and strim down to a few inches above ground level. Once your paths are clear and clean it will start to look a lot better. Weeding in bite-sized chunks made it much more tolerable even if it took longer.

A brush mower is an ideal tool for clearing difficult overgrowth because it easily cuts tough grass and weeds and can even chop 3-inch-diameter saplings. Pruning helps to create a strong plant and also makes it more attractive. Then spray the plot with a glyphosate based weedkiller paying special attention to the perennial weeds.

Even if you have a perfectly beautiful garden adjacent to the overgrown one and dont really need the extra space getting rid of overgrown out-of-control areas can help improve the health of your existing garden space too. With an overgrown space the best approach is to clear from the front to the back. If youre at the point where you need to clear space in a massively overgrown garden it can feel like a huge and overwhelming project from the start.

Use the right equipment. After plucking out the weeds you need to set the weeds aside and clear out the area. Plus overgrown gardens often contain harmful poisonous plants like poison ivy and can even harbor pests.

Heres a very informal border that could easily look messy if it bled right into the lawn. Ringing The County Council. Dont till the soil it only brings seeds up to the surface where they can more easily germinate.