Maintenances of Landscaping to Keep Your House Safe

Wild fire can be a serious threat to your home, but your landscaping can make a difference between losing your house and saving it with best garden hand tools.

You need to have thirty feet or more if your home is on a slope of defensible space around your home. In addition to the 30 feet of defensible space, you need to have 70 feet of a reduced fuel zone. In other fire prone states, is can help you save money on homeowners insurance.

Start from the house and work outward. The 30-foot radius around the house should be clean, green and lean. Lean means there should be lower amount of vegetation directly around your home. Incorporate fire breaks. A fire break doesn’t have to be a big bare patch project. Paths, dry streams and other hard scape elements in the garden also serve as fuel breaks. Don’t plant shrubs with three feet of the sides of your house and certainly not under the eaves. Utilize the system of island plantings. Don’t plant trees and shrubs too close to one another. The limbs and branches of trees shouldn’t touch each other.

Clean means maintaining your defensible space. Cut off any dead branches. Cut all the branches overhanging the roof. In your defensible space and your reduced fuel zone, avoid ladder fuels by liming up trees. Clean up litter, pine needles, and fallen leaves from underneath the tree. You should your tall grass, but mow when it is green.

Green means keeping your defensible space irrigated and green. The vegetation around your home should have high water content like succulents and you shouldn’t have anything waxy and resinous. We have many other water spinach seeds for you to grow your own plants. Group plants with highest water needs together place plants with the highest, closest to the house. The ones with moderate water need and the finally your drought tolerant or un-irrigated plant. Remember even if their fire safe plants they still need to be maintained.