Stop weeding inefficiently - How to make the most of weeding. 

Oh! Totally agree 😊

The only thing I can think of is because of the accent. I have to go back several times to understand the verbage, because it is not listed in the description. Love her approach to gardening! Great advice!

@@dignit1620 Have you tried turning on subtitles? Might help if you’re struggling to catch things.

@@zoewhite7705 Haha - subtitles suffer from the same problem and often make the same error or worse than I can discern :)

So do I!🐇

Great advice thanks 🐇

Here in eastern Canada Creeping Charlie is everywhere. Its' only redeeming feature is that the hummingbirds feed on them. I never knew groundsel was the same plant as creeping Charlie.

So funny! Many thanks!!!🌹

I’m 71 with degenerative disc disease. Bending over just kills my back so I sit on a plastic milk crate which is light enough to scoot along and weed with my trowel. Sitting down takes a load off my back and my knees.

Good idea about loosening the soil w a shovel and then getting in there to get the individual weeds. It’s probably a time saver too. Now if I can remember to use that technique. Best wishes!

Vinegar is acetic acid and does do harm to soil microorganisms also it won’t kill the roots of perennial weeds 🐇

There is a weedkiller on the market which has acetic acid in it and there is a warning on the label that it kills bees.

@@bunnyguinness oh dear! Such conflicting advice around, that it’s difficult to know what to believe. I thought that would be a safe bet.

Kate Moss better watch out! Don’t you get very hot? 🐇

@@bunnyguinness Hi Bunny! LOL. I try to work in shaded areas as much as possible, but the layers actually keep me cooler than the sun on my skin. The same philosophy as Bedouin robes, if not as attractive. Everything is cotton. I don't go out to work if it's hotter than 80F, or wait until after 4pm. On very hot days, I watch garden videos of England. :)

Aaaaah sorry, we are relatively novice at it and will heed your advice! 🐇

Good ideas though I always try to remove all dandelion root if poss, easiest when soil is damper 🐇

Not in my experience most of our compost heaps are too small to reach high temps, so weed seeds survive in many cases, so if you put compost back on you are undoing all your hard work weeding. Well worth separating out flowering and seeding weeds and putting in barrel of water for a few years! I don't fertilise, the mulch, often ramial, home made compost, green waste etc keeps the soil healthy and in warmer months the nitrogen cycle kicks in and releases nitrogen naturally. 🐰

@@bunnyguinness Thank you! We have 18 horses so I was hoping the mountain of poo would be hot enough to cook all the bad away. I wonder if there is a way to test it as we have so much and I sure would like to use it without pulling a field of weeds after. I had been using it as a mulch. Maybe I will let it cook longer and put mulch over it or mix bark mulch with it when we turn it with the loader. I am getting older and hate weeding more the older I get. 😅

@@kristinastoltzfus6032 18 horses and you worry about weeding? Give your head gardener a taste of the whip, sounds like he’s not earning his keep. And if you have too much manure, why not feed it to the poor? I’m sure they would appreciate it.

I think it's a bit of a song by Adele, but I don't know which one.

Hi Gwen, the music is "Price of Freedom" by Zachary Valaha. Vb Unity

Make jam with the wild strawberries delicious. Fairy plants they are welcome in my garden.

@@Divinefemininemiracles Id rather have the ajuga take over ha!

@@Laura-rx9mp aww they are both lovely. Honestly I adore the wild strawberries sooo cute and magical. Delicious too.

I love liriope!🐇

@@bunnyguinness I love the one that doesn't spread (monkey grass we call it) cheers

Just standard rate for perennial weeds it just had one treatment but of course there are loads of seeds in the ground which subsequently germinated so I have to be vigilant at pulling these out! The soil though, having grown comfrey for ten or so years is amazing!🐇

@@bunnyguinness Thanks Bunny. I have the Russian Bocking-14--sterile but of course the roots are eternal. I've learned to live with it!

I did 5 days of ground elder last week, Patience, chase the roots as much as you can, i will hit whatever grows back with gel gyphosate later in the summer.

I have this too unfortunately. Apparently young spring leaves of ground elder are very nutritious to eat in salads or cooked in quiches etc like spinach and was used by our ancestors as medicine to treat gout, inflammation etc. I haven’t tried this however! I just keep digging it up (no chemicals for me) but it is in my neighbours border and she doesn’t so it is an ongoing struggle!

The rotted down weeds in water produce something like a fertiliser, a good tonic, like making comfrey or nettle tea, or even compost tea. These “weeds” often have trace elements and minerals, particularly the deep rooting ones like dock, comfrey etc.

@@helendennis7662 I thought that this might be the case. Possibly need to strain the water. I assume the seeds die as well. I worry about mosquito larvae as well. I will possibly try this.

@@heidigresh2743 I wouldn’t worry about straining it, I just dunk a bucket or watering can in and water it down before putting on the soil. Obviously it will block a watering can rose so use without. Also I wouldn’t wait years before using, the seeds won’t take much drowning. Be aware it will stink!! I use a big bin or drum with a lid.

@@helendennis7662 Thank you!

I’m sure she would only use it very sparingly. Whilst I agree with some of your concerns my garden would be over run with creeping wild strawberry if I didn’t resort to using it. I would dig it out nearly everyday but it would still return. It was a last resort and it really worked! I wore a mask and covered the ground and it wasn’t a danger to wild life so really I can’t see it did much harm to such a small area. Lyme disease is caught from ticks which deer carry so I can’t see the correlation there.

It has a half life of less than a year. That’s why she lets the ground go fallow for a year thereafter.

If not for glysophate you wouldn't get a loaf of bread for 10.00

Pretty nutritious but not my top veg! 🐇

I agree, especially after talking about the soil flora and fauna, the soil microbiome is greatly damaged by glyphosate as is the human gut microbiome when we consuming plants contaminated with glyphosate. This chemical is thought to be a huge contributor to the rise in inflammatory and autoimmune type diseases through that pathway, and so ironic considering Bunny has Lyme disease.

Me too, it is so wrong, killing of bees, stays for years in the ground, ugh

It's too bad that people will swear by gossip and misinformation rather than doing research and getting the facts. Glyphosphate is neither carcinogenic nor bad for wildlife. Good job, Bunny!

@@jennienorcutt7767 really? So why all the class action lawsuits? Where’s your evidence? It is a fact that scientists are seeing the soil microbiome destroyed and doctors are seeing the gut microbiome destroyed. Glyphosate used as a weed killer is bad enough for the soil but used as a pre harvest desiccant it’s present on the food we eat right at harvest, no time to wash off or break down. Residues of glyphosate are being found in urine in higher and higher levels, and several generations since it’s introduction, chronic conditions usually associated with older people are cropping up in younger and younger children, as the effects of these sort of poisons are cumulative, bodies cannot detox them so the diseases are passed down.

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