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No work gardens.
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:23:37 -0400, "None4U"
wrote: The book , by Ruth Stout states that by putting 8 inches of hay, or leaves, or mulch on your garden. You dont have to do anything to it. My problem is weeds. And I was almost going to cover my garden with black covering this year and sterilize and let it kill all the weeds . Ive got those marigold vines that overun everything. Do you think cover would keep the weeds down and allow me to grow this year . Or should I cover it this year to kill the weeds. Chemicals have already been done. They just come back. Do a Google search on "soil solarization." You should find some detailed information. Last fall I put several inches of grass and leaves on a small section of my garden. I don't see any weeds popping up yet but it is early. I am planning to simply remove a enough topping to dig a hole for the plants. Will make a progress report later. I am also going to use Preen on the other places where I am going to set out plants. There is no magic bullet. It takes work preparing the garden, i.e. getting rid of the weeds and keeping after them. And some weeds are harder to get rid of than others. Around here we have horse nettle. It propagates by seed and runners. I just try to keep after the plants with Round Up. I can get the spray on just the plant I want. The rest of the stuff I just pull up. Once you get an area clean it is easier to keep that way. I have never succeeded in completely ridding the place of weeds. -- USA North Carolina Foothills USDA Zone 7a |
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