Today I'm gonna share with you this article by Peter Selkin. Take a look at Part 1:
Eliminating weeds from your garden takes hard work and a couple of different strategies.
1. Pull them by hand: Add them to your compost pile if they don't have seeds.
2. Mulch fodder: The stems and leaves of weeds are actually good content for mulch when they dry out as long as you eliminate the seeds.
3. Change the climate conditions: Certain weeds will fail to grow when deprived of their specific nutrition and weather conditions.
4. Increase the competition: Stock your garden with your chosen plants that are stronger and grow faster than weeds.
5. Cook them: Using a clear plastic covering kill the seeds so they can't reproduce.
6. Chemicals: Only as a last resort use herbicides and weed killers.
Often times weeds are really symptoms of a bigger underlying problem with your garden or the soil underneath. Sometimes weeds will flourish in poorly drained soil. Other types of weeds do well in soil that is either too acidic or too alkaline.
Check Part 2 tomorrow!
Peter specializes in outdoors activities and electronic gadgets. You can also check out his latest website, Red Coffee Maker which also has an extensive review on the Hamilton Beach Red Coffee Maker.
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