Owners of country houses and seasonal dachas on arrival of spring try to protect the flower beds and beds. And then any materials are used. From the boards which were stale behind the shed and old sheets of slate, to expensive brick and polycarbonate. Fans of beauty use plastic bottles and tires which they decorate the site in the protections.
Assignment of garden borders
In special departments for summer residents the huge set of protections for kitchen garden and garden which to buy is on sale does not make big work. They are made of various materials, generally industrially. These protections perform two functions:
- Practical - protections will help will be late to moisture at plant root. When watering by fertilizers the most part of moisture leaves at the roots, but not aside. Weeds from all site do not get to the fenced zone. At the shelter of plants ukryvny fabrics material easily fastens to border; in such beds soil long time keeps the fertility. When using lawn-mowers in cleaning of the territory of the technician will not run into plants.
- Esthetic - the flowers and vegetables set in oval, round, rectangular beds with the decorative small fence made of various material including plasticity, look very gracefully.
Pluses and minuses of borders from various materials
- Metal border: pluses - (if it is made of galvanized steel or other dense threw durability); good stability of design (if it is fixed by bolts and self-tapping screws); minuses - only one, such protections cost very much and not all on pocket.
- Wooden border: pluses - eco-friendly material; it is possible to make of the remains with the minimum expenses; minuses - short life cycle (up to 5 years); such protection demands additional impregnation from wreckers or painting.
- Border from slate: in such protections there are more minuses, than pluses. Slate has no special durability; at contact with sunshine emits hazardous substances which can absorb plants.
- Brick border: pluses - durability; minuses - a lot of time for its construction leaves; costly; if it wants to you any changes, the brick fence is problematic to be remade.
- Plastic border for beds: pluses - huge set of positive reviews; various color gamma; huge choice of models of different design; the child will even cope with installation; ease of material; minuses - cost.
In more detail about pluses of plastic borders
- Plastic belongs to weather-resistant materials. The border will easily transfer summer and winter temperature drops.
- Plastic borders are not exposed to rotting and destruction by insects. Therefore their life cycle is eternal.
- Protections from plastic are ecologically clean, do not do harm to the soil and harvest. For ecological purity of harvest it is not necessary worries.
- The plastic fence is protection against weeds. At installation the fence is located in soil on depth which protects plants from penetration of unnecessary roots.
- The border from plastic does not demand leaving.
- The low price, in comparison with metal, brick and tree.