The summer season
A few months after the spring planting, garden contractor Marc Galle takes stock. Discover his pruning and maintenance advice for the summer season.
Summer maintenance in your garden
The cultivars of Bestselect are particularly easy to maintain. What summer maintenance you can possibly do in your garden:
Weeding
Regularly weed the weeds, this way you prevent them from germinating further and you will also have less trouble with them in the long term. Although it also depends on the type and quality of your soil.
Loosen the Earth
If your soil is not yet completely covered, you can loosen the top 2 cm of soil and break the capillary channels at the top.
Cultivars good for climate and biodiversity
Marc Galle: ‘Specific to Bestselect's range: rich flowering and immediate and beautiful results.’ So all cultivars come into leaf very nicely and the soil is generally covered quickly. 'An advantage of a dense soil? Weeds get much less chance and the soil dries out less quickly. A garden that is nicely full is automatically more moisture-holding. As a result, you have to water the crops less. Which, by the way, is much better for the climate.' Rosa ‘Archimedes ’ also proves to be a heat-resistant cultivar thanks to its metre-deep roots. Moreover, it is a single flower that attracts many bees - good for biodiversity. 'And the popular panicle hydrangea “Pinky-Winky ”, with its woody stems, can withstand drought and heavy waterfall well.