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vinegar and disk soap weed killer is not working
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songbird wrote: if you got time to go around dumping or spraying you got time to pull it or smother it IMO. Hi Songbird, Some blabbing and a question on the bottom for you. Since I let my back lawn go to seed last year in hope of replacing it with a garden, I now have weeds I never knew existed. weeds are free organic matter, if they will grow where nothing else will they can then be chopped and used for other things, like building mulch or topsoil fertility. On of them looks like a small shade tree and it pulls really easily. The rest suck to the ground, like the dandelions that won't die. I have to dig these up with a shovel, which is no easy task considering you can make some really awesome bricks out of my soil. My soil isn't soil anyway. I know the guy who graded my property. My back yard is 20 feet down from top soil. It is basically rocks and decomposed sandstone (like decomposed granite, only way, way uglier). If you strike the ground to hard with a shovel, it literally sparks. How some of these weeks managed to bore their roots down in the stuff, I will never know. And, you can only cut their tops off. Then they grow right back and back and back. So vinegar and soap it is, less the salt. Cussing at them doesn't work either. The back yard is too big to cover in cardboard or plastic, especially with the high winds we have. (Two category one hurricane force winds last January.) Rock gardens work with visqueen. rock gardens are just fine ways to cover an area. we have plenty of those here ourselves. also, if you do not need it for anything is there any reason to do anything with it at all? we have some land here on the other side of the large drainage ditch. i'd like to put some fruit trees back there but it's so far back there and hard to get to right now that it's just growing small shrubs and trees now. i'll need to cut it all back in the next few years if i don't want it to turn into woodland/trees. Also, this is one for you. My blue garlic comes out pink. I was told that this is because my soil is very alkaline (verified by the local nursery lady.) I little vinegar may help. Your thoughts? if you are just going to grow a few plants, i would bring in some good topsoil add some composted cow manure and any other organic materials i could scrounge up. make sure the area is leveled and drainage is good and also make sure there is a wind break to protect against the drying winds. that will solve the poor soil problem and your pH will be corrected. for the rest of the area as you can scrounge free organic materials and chop and drop whatever weeds that grow to get your topsoil developing environment going. as most of the processes of forming topsoil involve moisture it is better to have things piled deep enough to preserve moisture than to scatter your efforts widely. you might also be able to scrounge free fill that is better than what you have. even if you have to do it a few yards at a time... as you get an area covered and able to absorb and store moisture then it will support worm and other soil community creatures (you may need to innoculate the area with soil from a healthy area). these build topsoil and support plant life. your pH will change as more organic matter is added. it's just a matter of scale, what you want to put into it, how much money you want to spend, and how much you're willing to be patient while nature does some work for you. songbird |
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