How Do You Achieve A Weed-Free Flowerbed?
Nothing is cheerier in your yard than a beautiful flowerbed, but nothing is more frustrating than a garden full of weeds. Believe it or not, you can have a lovely weed-free flowerbed. It just takes some preparation, planning and some good old-fashioned elbow grease. Plan your flowerbed. Weeds need sunlight, water and nutrition to grow. Design your flowerbed to utilize all of the bed space in order to increase the competition for water and sunlight. If the sunlight doesn’t reach the soil surface, then the weed seeds won’t be as apt to grow. Use taller plants in the middle of the bed and shorter ones toward the edges. Prepare the flowerbed to be planted. Whether you are starting a brand new flowerbed or replanting an old one, you need to prepare the soil. You can get the soil ready by killing any existing weeds and breaking up the soil with a tiller or by hand. Eliminate all of the existing weeds. After you break up the soil you can use a post-emergence herbicide–such as Roundup–to kil
