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maintaining a gravel garden in italy

Gravel gardens in Italy have become all the rage, given the low maintenance and low water requirements of this kind of Italian garden . However, gravel gardens in Italy do require some basic maintenance routines and raking off the leaves is essential in maintaining the low maintenance qualities, so essential when making a low water garden in Italy.

If leaves are left on the gravel garden they will break down and create a soft, water-retentive humus, in which annual and perennial weeds will take foot and grow. If the organic residue is allowed to build up from fallen leaves then the low maintenance qualities are rendered less effective.

A regular rake of the gravel garden in autumn is one of the only maintanence requirements of the italian gravel garden. This seems a lot easier than all the mowing, watering ... and raking of the leaves that an Italian lawn requires! The Italian gravel garden is low maintenance and easy and even the pets can get involved in the maintenance.