How Do You Control Weeds In Vegetable & Flower Gardens?
One of the most basic garden care tasks is weeding. Weeds in a flower or vegetable garden are a problem because they compete with your plants for growing space, water and nutrients in the soil. For this reason, letting weeds grow out of control will compromise the success of your flowers and vegetables. Weed control can be an irritating chore for gardeners, but by following a few basic practices, you can keep the weeds and the headaches that go with them to a minimum. Pull weeds by hand. For success using this method, do it daily to keep them from getting completely out of control. A light session pulling small, tender weeds every day or two is far easier than waiting until they are large and overgrown and doing it all at once. By waiting too long you also run the risk of allowing the weeds to go to seed. Try to pull weeds after rain or watering because the roots will come out of the soil more easily. Cut weeds off at the root with a hoe. A hoe will not remove the roots of the weeds, s
