Loading tweets...A good gardener must know that cultivation or weeding is effective for growth control. Weeds are your garden’s most persistent enemy. You need to be able to know how to handle weeds in order to foster growth control for your vegetable garden. If you let weeds take over, they will completely destroy your chances of yielding a large number of vegetables.
Weeds are the number one stealer of nutrients, sunlight and revenue for farmers, so the earlier you try to eliminate them, the better will it be for your vegetable gardening. This can eat up your time to such an extent that you feel like all you do is weed.
Weed free gardens add to the growth of your plants!
The time of the season also affect the appearance of weeds. Warm-season and cool-season weeds proliferate at different times of the year, it will be your advantage to recognize which weeds are in season so you can more easily determine when they will show up in your garden and prepare your anti-weed arsenal more effectively. Many weed seeds may lie dormant in your garden, so make sure that you cultivate your soil properly to remove them as well.
It is important that your ground remains filled up with the good stuff. If you leave any portion idle or bare, the weeds are more likely to take over that area rather quickly. If you are unable to fill the entire area with plants , at least have a good mulch or other cover to keep the weeds from invading your plants territory.
In the case where weeds have already grown when you find them, chopping them off from the ground is the most efficient way to remove them. Some of these weeds may be persistent and difficult to remove, and will not stop growing even when you cut them down. But by repetitive cutting these weeds will eventually succumb and will be eliminated.
The use of herbicides and pesticides is also available but not advised, it is not necessary when you are able to do good cultivation of your soil. The pesticides and herbicides, especially the commercially available ones, may prove to have other harmful effects. It may pose a threat to other useful organisms living in your garden. When you are presented with a huge weed problem, you may be tempted to use herbicides and pesticides but manual cultivation and mulching will get the job done.
Mulching and composting are the best way to help maintain the soil and ward off the weeds. Not only will the compost help build your soil with organic material, eventually you will not encounter huge problems in weed growth if from the start, you are able to keep them from thriving in your garden in the first place.
If you are really consistent in digging up your garden using a hoe or cultivator, you will have made the most out of your vegetable garden and exercised growth control against weeds that wood steal from your plants and eventually, kill and destroy your organic garden. The benefits are many and the more often you cultivate the better. Remember the old saying “a stitch in time saves nine” well that certainly applies when it comes to weed control.
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Glenn
March 21, 2010 at 5:52 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Here in Texas, we also have problems with winter weeds. I made the mistake of not planting a green manure crop last Fall and I’ve really had a weed problem. I’ll not get that lazy again. I’ll use either clover or vetch which will prevent the weeds from growing while adding nutrients back into the soil.
Glenn
Kristofer Buntin
March 21, 2010 at 6:46 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
hey there, i liked reading your post, i just used the websiteSwap my Seeds, as a way of giving away my unused bagonia seeds. Anyone know what I can sell them for? I have maybe 500 seeds left.
Nicky
March 27, 2010 at 7:58 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I know you suggest mulching, but it does not seem to work well for me. maybe I jst have too many weed seeds. This year we got this new garden cultivator and are going to try the old-fashioned bare soil garden with long narrow rows of plants. The tool also has weeding blades. Maybe I can finally get my weeds under control…
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April 10, 2010 at 12:55 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
great blog. and I really like your layout. If you don’t mind me asking, which platform are you using?
Glenn
April 10, 2010 at 3:53 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I Use WordPress. The Theme is Atahualpa and it is very flexible and can be configured in many different ways.
Glenn
Daisey
April 21, 2010 at 12:38 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Wonderful tips on weed control, certainly a strain on any organic garden. Any suggestion on bug control? I’m looking for something that works great and can be used on an organic garden. I found this Safer Brand EndAll spray on Google and would love your thoughts. Ever use it? It kills insects at all stages of their lifecycle. Plus, it kills a lot of them.
Here’s what I’m talking about:
http://www.saferbrand.com/store/garden-care/5102
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