Plant Disease - “Garden Creep”
Bare Bones Gardener One thing you either might have to watch out for or embrace is something I call Garden Creep. This is the ability of certain gardens, let alone the plants in them, of slowly growing and spreading or even multiplying over time. Any dedicated gardener can explain to you the visible symtomology of the disease. New garden growths appear almost randomly at times as new outbreaks of gardens pop up in sometimes rather unexpected corners and sections of the area. This problem is also seen in certain plants as well. When they have managed to obtain a foot hold in an area, where the available space for them, is inadequate for their realistic size. You will find these plants spilling outwards or upwards into space they were never intended to occupy. This causes constant problems for entryways & walkways, as well as air space occupiers like power lines. These planbts then have to constantly attacked and kept back within their territory, often at great cost in time and money to their garden owner. Lawn areas and sometimes even pathways in it's way are encompassed and/or swallowed up. It even can escape from your area onto and around footpaths and along road verges. It appears I reckon to be a possibly viral disease that affects both the gardens and their gardeners alike. It means that these garden areas extend over a period into every little space they can infect and take over, sometimes far outside the originally intended boundaries of the initial garden/s. About the Author
The Bare Bones Gardener is a qualified Horticulturist and a qualified Disability Services Worker. One of his sons has Asperger’s Syndrome and he has Asperger’s himself. He hates spending money on stuff which doesn’t live up to the promises given. So he looks for cheaper, easier, simpler or free ways of doing the same thing and then he passes these ideas on to others. It’s a website where you will find a strange mix of Gardening & Horticulture, Disability & Carer work and Parenting of Disabilities & Someone with Asperger’s Syndrome stuff all rolled into one. Website -http://www.barebonesgardening.com/ Garden Blog - http://barebonesgardening.blogspot.com/ Disability/Parenting Blog - http://disabilitycarework.blogspot.com/ Bare Bones Gardener may be contacted at http://www.barebonesgardening.com/. Click here to view more articles by Bare Bones Gardener. Reprinted with Permission from IdeaMarketers.com
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