go to home depot and get yourself some preen. its safe and easy. make sure
you have gotten all the weeds out. sprinkle this around and wet it. it works
for probably a month or so.its great stuff.much easier than mulch or paper.
before i knew about it i put plastic around everything then mulch over top. i
had beautiful gladiolas. this year they have rotted and are dying. im
thinking maybe they reproduced as much as thay could and smothered out
because of the plastic and all the rain we had this year.i wish i knew about
preen a few years back because i loved those glads. good luck

Charlie S. wrote:
First time poster in this group. Hope this isn't the most redundant
question. If so, I apologize in advance.

Looking for some advice on how best to prevent weed growth in our garden. I
am looking at two options, maybe someone could suggest other alternatives.

So far, I weeded the flower bed. The bed is about 30 ft long and about 3
feet wide with no shrubs in the way.

Option 1
Plant the flowers such as dahlias, marigolds and geraniums.

Add mulch around the bed to minimize weed growth.

(I've done that in the past and found that over time some of the mulch
spreads and thins out and weeds still manage to pop through.)

Option 2
Lay a sheet of weed stopper on top of the soil and then cut holes to plant
the flowers. (I guess I could simply put down newspaper and save a few
dollars.)

Afterwards, add mulch to hide weed stopper material.

Even though I might use a roll of the 10 year weed wall material I would
have to remove it in the Fall because I have tulip bulbs planted for the
next Spring.

Would rather not have to put the weed stopper material on the garden, but
really don't want to spend time weeding again either. Anything I could do
beside just adding the mulch to prevent the weeds from popping through?

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