HOW TO DESTROY WEEDS

Before weeds destroy your garden, you should destroy them. :) It's no fun at all to see those beautiful, carefully chosen plants being suffocated by undesired grass. Let's take a look at some of the techniques recommended by Peter Selkin:

Solarizing

One of the most effective ways to destroy weeds in a new garden is to solarize them down. It is actually quite simple. Using just a sheet of clear plastic, capture the sun's heat and literally cook the weeds and their seeds until they are dead. This will take a couple of weeks in sunny climates. If your garden is in a cooler or cloudy region, try this technique during the more sunny times of the year and allow a good 8 weeks for the process to work. Here's the steps to successfully execute this strategy:

1. Mow the ground as close as possible to remove as much of the plants as possible. The best terrain for this technique is bare ground.
2. Make the soil damp. The process will be accelerated by moisture.
3. Take a sheet of thick, clear plastic over the entire area as tightly as possible and then fasten it down with heavy stones.
4. In order to keep in as much heat as possible, seal off the edges by covering all the way around with soil or pieces of wood.

Try not to till the soil after you have solarized since it often brings new seeds to the surface. When the soil gets really hot, this process will also destroy many forms of soil dwelling pests and diseases.


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