Create beautiful garden is not complete without preventing it from some disturbances that will come. Some disturbances possibilities can come from gadfly plant, gadfly animal, soil condition and weather. Without giving attention on it can cause garden plant will not grow well or can damage. Useful prevention tools we can consider are pre emergent herbicides, fence, retaining wall and glass house. Pre emergent herbicides are needed to kill weed growing from garden plant. It’s potentially to grow around ornamental grass or some flower plants. Good pre emergent herbicide only kill weed, but not kill ornamental grass and flower seed and root. Some popular products are pendimethilin, dithiopyr, benefin, isoxaben and siduron.
Before using pre emergent herbicides, identify first types of weed on the garden, then looking for the right product to kill it. Find information on the store. Read its specification. The right time to use this chemical component is on early spring season. Read carefully its information how to use well this chemical products.
Above pre emergent herbicides are for gadfly plant. For gadfly animal, we can use net and fence. Some fruit plants iike blueberries must be protect from birds, especially on harvest season. Birds like to eat this delicious fruit. Installing net can protect it from birds. If we stay on rustic region or suburb region, especially if we plant some vegetables plants, gadfly animal is deer and forest pig. To protect from these animals, fence is the answer. Fence can be built from wood and thorny wire. It’s god to combine it with fast evergreen trees. It will cover garden area from outside.
If soil condition are on non flat shape with one place is higher than other place, retaining wall will be problem solver. It can protect all plants from avalanche soil danger. Some materials to be used to made retaining wall are wood, stone, concrete and brick.
If we like to plant some tropical plants, it must be protected from cold temperature an snow. Building glass house is the right answer. Put all these plants inside this glass house. Glass house also protect it from gadfly animal and wind.