Weed Prevention Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide
Weed Prevention Program Keeps Weeds Out
By Joel F Mornigstar
Weed prevention program without using chemicals in your garden,
requires lots of hard work by pulling out weeds, whenever you
see them in your garden. This may take up too much of your time
and may even strain some of your muscles. Gardening is a pleasure
and not a torture session. Besides, there are many retired and
disabled people keeping themselves active with gardening, who
may find it difficult pulling out weeds.
If you do not wish to use chemicals to keep weeds out, then you
can take steps to prevent weeds from growing in your garden. For
example, you can cook weeds, by placing black plastic garden tarps
to cover the weeds on your garden, with the hot sun bearing down
on them under the tarps. When your garden plants have finished
giving you garden produce for the season, then is the time to
take steps to stop the growth of weeds in your garden.
This is one of a number of steps you can take to prepare your
garden for a weed prevention program, where you can prevent the
growth of most weeds. If you do not allow weeds to grow, then
you would not have to pull weeds out! Life can be made so much
easier for the lazy gardener!
Natural Ways To Control Weeds In Your Yard And Garden
Rare is the gardener who enjoys weeding. In addition to being
a laborious, back-breaking task, it also goes against the grain
of the gardener’s heart. You like to plant and nurture, not pull
up and destroy.
On the other hand, the weeds will take over your landscape in
no time, if you don’t attend to this task, stunting the growth
and leaching precious water from your garden plants. You can spray
with a herbicide, but many people are now looking for more eco-friendly
solutions, especially if they’ve got young kids.
Preparing To Prevent Weeds Growing In Your Yard
There is an alternative to constant weeding chores or herbicides.
Weed prevention is the name of this game. If you’re diligent and
persistent from fall through next spring, you’ll be delighted
with the results of your weed prevention program.
If you’ve spent time weeding by hand, or with a hoe, you know
there’s always one or two you miss, while leaving the roots of
a number of stubborn weeds with long taproots. Some gardeners
figure that pulling them up is enough, leaving them to compost
right on the spot.
You should always gather up the weeds, bagging them up and hauling
them away. If you dump them into your compost bin, some weed seeds
will survive and pop up again when you spread your compost. Weeds
are generally described as weeds, because they survive under the
most adverse conditions!
Phase 1 Is Covering With Black Plastic Garden Tarps
When you put your garden to bed in early fall, while the days
are still warm, you can skip that final weeding. Cover flower
beds not in use with black plastic garden tarps, available at
garden centers in rolls. Weight the tarp down with rocks or bricks
and let the sun do the rest.
A couple of weeks under that heat makes short work of the weeds.
Slide the tarp to the side and simply pick up the dead weeds.
Replace the tarp and weights, and leave in place until spring.
This weed prevention technique eliminates that knee high mess
of weeds that crop up by April.
Phase 2 Stops Weeds From Becoming Seedlings On Your Soil
You may find a few renegade weeds, but applying phase one of
your weed prevention program has saved you many hours of hard
work. All you need to do is add some well-aged fertilizer and
the compost of your choice. Work into the soil, water the area
thoroughly and slowly and wait a day or two. Turn the soil again
and you’re ready to plant. So much easier.
When you’ve planted your beds, you implement phase two. Mulch
is essential to weed prevention. With a 2-3 inch layer of whatever
mulching material you find most attractive, any erstwhile weeds
lurking in the soil will have a much more difficult path to seedling
stage. There are those die-hards sure to pop their heads above
ground, but with your mulch, they are readily spotted and easily
removed, root and all.
Make Weekly Inspections For Weeds
If you make a weekly inspection of your entire garden, you’ll
find that you can dispose of all your pickings in a small paint
bucket. Depending on the size of your garden, this weekly weeding
might not even take an hour. As the growing season proceeds, you’ll
find fewer and fewer weeds.
When fall arrives, start your weed prevention cycle over again.
With a thorough preparation of beds in fall and spring, good composting
techniques and mulching,
you’ll spend far less time weeding and more time babying the plants
you want.
Keeping Your Garden Free Of Chemicals
Taking these weed prevention steps, helps you to avoid the use
of chemical agents like herbicides, and it may help you keep you
garden chemical free, making it an organic garden. Many people
these days, maintain an organic garden in their backyard, so that
they can avoid all the tasteless fruit and vegetables available
in many food stores.
If you make your meal from freshly picked fruit, vegetables and
herbs from your garden, then you are retaining all the natural
flavours in your meals. When you buy fruit, vegetables and herbs
from the food store, you do not know how long has taken to transport
the food to the store and the period on the shelf waiting to be
sold. During all this time, natural flavours are disappearing.
Flooding Your Meals With Natural Flavours
When you use freshly picked herbs, vegetables and fruit from
your garden, you can use them in your meals straight away and
taste all the natural flavours flooding your meal. You may not
realise there was so much flavour, until you started using your
garden produce to make your meals.
You can grow much more garden produce, by taking up steps to
eradicate weeds with your weed prevention program.
About the Author:
Joel F Morningstar has written a number of articles on gardening
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Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.
Little Known Landscaping Facts....
When should I hire a landscaper?
You should hire a landscaper
if you do not have a “green thumb” and you are not
going to have the time to devote to removing the old
landscape and planting the new. There are certain steps
that must be put into place to prevent soil erosion so
it will require at least a weekend of hard work.
Landscaper’s are not cheap but you can find one at a reasonable
price depending on how large the area is and how much labor you
intend to do yourself. If you are going to maintain the area,
you will save money as well.
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