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Fun out of gardening
"Leeper" wrote in message news:8ZKdncTJhJPOJb_bnZ2dnUVZ_gSdnZ2d@scnresearch. com... 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? Handing picking, hoeing, clawing, and occasionally spraying weed killers. There are also pre-emergent weed killers out there but you can't use them until your crops are up or you plant seedlings. I'm concidering covering everything with plastic this year, in the hope the heat will kill many of the weed seeds. The heat doesn't go too deep so when you turn the earth you'll being up more live seeds to germinate. If doing it manually isn't an option I'd go with the chemicals. Anything beats the near tasteless stuff in the stores. |
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