I'll be the only house on my block with an organic lawn and with this channel, I'm gaining the confidence to take the lead on that! With good results, I hope my neighbors adopt the practice. Thank you- such great advice paired with a gorgeous smile!
I have raised beds inside a fenced area, where it's difficult to run a push mower, so I bought a battery-run weed wacker... I also have red clover growing between beds, and comfrey along the fences. My garden NEVER looks like a pinterest photo, but it works for me, an ageing, enthusiastic, but not as able gardener.
I just know that this was meant specifically for me! But this past year was a particularly wet one and I have neighbors that feed the birds all year long. They perch in MY yard after consuming whatever and the weeds now are beyond just pulling one here and one there. I tried weeding one area at a time but by the time I cleaned one or two areas, the first was filling up again. Pretty hopeless, I'd say.
What if your planting annual flowers like Sunflowers Zinnas and other annuals from seeds? there has to be a easy way to control weeds in annual seed gardens.
thanks for posting this link on facebook, but my problem(and i can't be the only one) is identifying the baby weeds so i can pull them. i planted a ton of seeds and find out too late that the little green leaves are actually a weed and not my flowers or veggies. HELP!!!
I’m sorry, Joe. But I know a lot of what you’re already saying, but even with mulch, I pull weeds all the time and my beds still get over run with thistle EVERY summer. I’ve got three little kids so it’s very hard to get enough time to manage the weeds organically. My neighbors are almost NEVER pulling weeds, but they are using chemicals. It’s such a struggle
It is indeed. But anything you can do to reduce their presence non-chemically is a huge plus and if you can fully extract the tap-rooted weeds and smother the shallow rooted weeds, most of what emerges after that should be much easier to pull because it likely came in and rooted into the mulch rather than coming up through it. The mulch is never going to eliminate all weeds but it definitely reduces their presence significantly.
