Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Keep weeds away with ground cover
Weeds a problem? Likely.. They are in my landscape. But ground covers come to the rescue!
Ground covers can mean several things, plants, mulch or something else, which perform in other ways.
Ground covers can also enhance soil health, provide food and habitat for pollinators and other beneficial insects, and reduce soil erosion.
Check out these plant options from the University of Minnesota Extension. It’s a great variety of plants that you wouldn’t necessarily equate with ground covers.
Plants grown as ground covers can be ornamental or edible, herbaceous or woody, and perennial, biennial or annual plants.
Of course mulch is a groundcover as well, but doesn’t work for what I want. So, that’s what you need to decide, what do you want out of your ground cover? For the area behind my garage, it’s mulch all the way. No one sees it but it’s where I place my larger garden tools.
Check out this video for more ground covers: