Posted by Leeper on April 15, 2007, 7:42 pm
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.
Posted by cloud dreamer on April 15, 2007, 7:48 pm
Leeper wrote:
> 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.
>
>
I grow in 4x8 or 4x16 raised beds. They're all surrounded by landscape
fabric stapled to the wood of the frame and the fabric is covered with
mulch at least 18" out from the frame. The plants themselves are
surrounded by mulch as well. It not only dissuades the weeds, it retains
moisture and dissuades soft belly pests like slugs.
Covering the garden right now in plastic would start killing any weed
seeds in the ground. Leave it on for a couple weeks and then plant...and
go mad with the mulch and landscape fabric. If you don't have raised
beds, you can apply the fabric and mulch right up to the row of each veggie.
..
Zone 5b in Canada's Far East
Posted by Marcella Peek on April 15, 2007, 8:00 pm
Preen. Magic stuff. It's made from corn gluten and inhibits seeds from
sprouting.
That said, you need to transplant your veggies rather than direct sow.
marcella
> 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.
Posted by Dave on April 15, 2007, 11:39 pm
>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.
--
Dave
Apathy and denial are close cousins
Posted by Manelli Family on April 16, 2007, 1:07 am
>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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> 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.
>
>