Hi,
Like the topic says. What is the best way to remove weeds from the garden? Easiest ? Maybe specific tool required?
Like the topic says. What is the best way to remove weeds from the garden? Easiest ? Maybe specific tool required?
Do you really believe that there is someone out there who would take on weeding as a job? A job is sitting in an air conditioned room looking at a computer screen, not out in the hot sun with a hoe. Even landscapers don't do it as they hire minimum wage laborers who work at not doing it rather than actually doing it. Work ethics are an extinct species. You know the old saying, "if you want something done do it yourself." I know. I am just a cynical old Texas redneck hillbilly.Has anybody said hire somebody else yet?
That has been me. I remember one old house that had been rented by an historian to write a book, she was amazed when I showed her all the ancient shards that I had found in the garden, living history. I used to take them home for my daughter, she had a whole shoe box full.Do you really believe that there is someone out there who would take on weeding as a job?
And to think I had a hoe in hand today!Do you really believe that there is someone out there who would take on weeding as a job? A job is sitting in an air conditioned room looking at a computer screen, not out in the hot sun with a hoe. Even landscapers don't do it as they hire minimum wage laborers who work at not doing it rather than actually doing it. Work ethics are an extinct species. You know the old saying, "if you want something done do it yourself." I know. I am just a cynical old Texas redneck hillbilly.
Yes. absolutely it is possible. More than possible... it almost certainly would help. Planted thickly. It would also tend to improve that clay soil.... is it possible cover crops might help in the long run? My half acre lot is inundated with weeds probably because most of it is clay. I’ve been slowly amending the soil bed by bed. If I removed weeds, added a bit of decent soil, and planted a cover crop (in the fall?) would that help moving forward? What cover crops would you recommend for small suburban beds? I’ll appreciate any guidance.
The new weeds probably show your efforts are having an effect. We once did a study placing a grid over a large bonfire area where orchard prunings had been burnt and mapping what grew each year. As the nutrients from the ash were used up the weeds gradually changed until after about four or five years it had gone back to grass, but with docks, nettles, fireweed and plantains being dominant at stages in between.Thank you, that’s just the information I was looking for. My personal nemesis is smartweed, though every year a new weed variety appears.
Ok...Who actually does that? Tip of the Hat, Sir...The new weeds probably show your efforts are having an effect. We once did a study placing a grid over a large bonfire area where orchard prunings had been burnt and mapping what grew each year. As the nutrients from the ash were used up the weeds gradually changed until after about four or five years it had gone back to grass, but with docks, nettles, fireweed and plantains being dominant at stages in between.
That’s pretty cool and it gives me a glimmer of hope.It was a long time ago when I was a teenager. My Dad was a biology teacher and he wanted the results for his class. We hammered in four permanent stakes and made up a wooden square that fitted over them with nails along it that we could string up for the grid. We did the same sort of thing with a larger area of coppiced sweet chestnut seeing how things changed from bluebells and foxgloves to honeysuckle and bramble as the trees grew back.
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