Weeding Made SimpleWeeding by hand is still the safest way to rid your garden of them. I enjoy it when my local gardeners do this, because it gives me a chance to visit with them. As they swap gardening battle stories and talk about the latest, greatest plants in our gardens, I listen while remaining as still as a statue . It is also a relaxing activity, and one that provides great exercise! Why Weed the Garden?Beyond aesthetics, there are other reasons for eliminating these wild plants from your garden. Certainly, if you are going to go to the trouble to have a garden, you want it to look nice. The wild ones are more than just a blemish on your garden, though. They compete with your flowers and vegetables for sunlight, nutrients and water. An overgrowth of these unwanted plants will usually turn into an under whelming vegetable harvest.Plants are considered weeds when they out-compete native vegetation, or cultivated vegetation. In other words, they can survive where almost everything else can’t. You can more or less ignore them, and they will flourish in your garden or lawn. Get‘em While They’re YoungGarden weed control is much easier and more effective if you attack the youngsters. They are easier to uproot at that state. They have also not started going to seed, which is beneficial for three reasons:
The Right Tools Make it EasyA few tools make the job much easier. Of course, the utility of a tool is always a personal preference, but these are some universally espoused tools, and essentials for anyone who wants to hand-weed the garden. For a discussion of the right tools for your garden, visit our page on weeders .If you attend to these wild guys frequently, you can:
Happy gardening. Geefrank
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