RE: What is "low maintenance?"
- To: "m*@ucdavis.edu" <m*@ucdavis.edu>
- Subject: RE: What is "low maintenance?"
- From: T* D* <t*@xtra.co.nz>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 11:43:56 +1200
Paul Harrar asked:
> ...Isn't maintenance one of the joys of gardening?...
It is, up to a point. It stops being a joy if it takes up so much time that
there is no time left to actually walk round the garden or sit in peace
looking at it!
As far as low maintenance is concerned, it means for me very definitely NO
WATERING, the barest minimum of pruning, no hedges to clip and no spraying
of chemicals. I enjoy weeding (I like the effect when the job is finished),
but I think a low maintenance garden would have to be one where it is
actually possible to remove all weeds at any given point in time, rather
than one where, by the time you have weeded all the beds there are more
weeds back where you started. A low maintenance garden would also need to
have little or no lawn. Even if it doesn't take very long to mow the lawn,
there are always edges to trim afterwards, that can take longer than the
mowing does.
Tim Dutton
"Raindrops", Main Road North, Kaitoke, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
(Latitude 41? 5' South, Longitude 175? 10' East)
