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Old 16-04-2007, 04:39 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Default Fun out of gardening

"Leeper" wrote in message
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I spent nearly a decade ammending my soil with natural amendments, and it
is now very fertile.

In recent years though, the battle with weeds has taken all the fun out of
it, and weeds just love the soil, and grow exceedingly fast and vigorous.

It has gotten so bad, that last year, I skipped planting it.

However, I miss the fresh produce off the vine, and the store bought stuff
tastes like wet cardboard.

How do you guys deal with the weeds?

I'm concidering covering everything with plastic this year, in the hope
the heat will kill many of the weed seeds.


Only prolific plant that I didn't purposely put in the garden is the dadburn
bermuda grass that surrounds it. Rest is easy to gleen out by hand weeding
every week or so. Bermuda grass is much more pesky.
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Dave

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