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General Gardening Wisdom, Weed Control

(Video) 5 Fascinating Weeds You Should Actually Eat

 

Wondering how to battle weeds? Eat them!

Our gardens will always be home to weeds. Whether we like it or not, weeds will grow at the slightest opportunity.

While you should definitely make sure they have little chance of growing, you should also know that they are actually a pretty healthy meal for you and your family.

Weeds are fighter plants. They consume a lot of soil nutrients, which means, they should be a wonderful healthy food for us, humans.

So, next time you pluck out some dandelions or nettle, don’t throw them in the compost bin. Prepare a salad or a soup with them.

The video will give you the 5 edible weeds. Keep in mind that some other weeds may not be so friendly, and are potentially dangerous food, so stay away from them.

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Weed Control

(Video) The Ultimate Method For A Weed-Free Garden

 

Here’s a foolproof technique to  get rid of weeds completely

This very simple method would totally make you love it! It takes virtually minutes and works great in the long run. You may have to do this method once a year, before you actually plant your veggies.

The way it is shown in the video is the one you should try. There are many variants to this method, but this particular one is foolproof, because it smothers any weed germination processes.

Weeds won’t stand a chance and will never grow – only your veggies will grow.

There are many other ways you can fight weeds, but the best one is to never let them grow in the first place. This is exactly why this method is so good!

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Organic Gardening, Weed Control

Don’t fight the weeds – Control them instead

 

No need to fight the weeds, just do the right things

Weeds are the archenemy of every gardener. There are books written about how to effectively win the battle against weeds, but it seems more and more gardeners realize that fighting them is the wrong strategy.

If we learn how to suppress their growth and expansion by depriving them of the environment they need, we don’t have to fight them at all. By doing the right thing in your garden, you automatically keep the weeds under control.

The strategies and methods in the article below will surely offer you a lot of good field-tested ideas, which will significantly reduce the amount of time you spend fighting unwanted weeds.

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General Gardening Wisdom, Plant Care, Weed Control

Prepare your garden now for the next season

 

Now is the time to set up your garden for the spring

Every gardener will agree that no garden maintains itself. Someone must take charge of it and keep it thriving and growing. A little bit of neglect can ruin years of care and attention.

Often, the work we do today will only bare fruit in the months to come.  Many people think now is a time to scale down.  To a certain degree it is correct, but ignoring the things you need to do now might cost you further down the track.

And YES, there certainly are things to take care of right now.

The article below will wet your apetite and provide some pointer and ideas about what you should consider doing now.

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Compost, Plant Care, Weed Control

(Video) Easy Tips To Get A Sustainable Garden

 

Gardening is fun, establishing a fully self sustainable garden is off the charts.

Your organic garden is already a sustainable ecosystem on its own, but there are several improvements that can be made or added (if you haven’t done that already).

The tips presented in the video below will definitely get you excited and inspired and will help you to improve your current garden and add more life to it. You don’t need to have a large garden and it will also not cost you an arm and a leg to implement.

These small changes can be done with everyday tools you have, and it will have a strong impact on your garden, soil and plants.

It will also be rewarding and satisfying to know your garden is a self-sustained ecosystem.

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General Gardening Wisdom, Organic Gardening, Weed Control

(Video) Best Kept Weed Fighting Strategies Revealed

 

Fight weeds with little effort, and learn why you need some weeds

In this both funny and instructional video, you will get 6 tips on how you can control the growth and spread of weeds around your garden.

Fighting weeds is a bit like a military exercise.  You have a whole arsenal of “weapons” and will use different “attack” strategies for different situations.
In some cases you may even tolerate the “enemy” for a specific reason.

Learn how to control your weeds easily and organically.

You will also learn why your garden needs weeds (hint: it has to do with the soil), so don’t look at them as the archenemy of your vegetable garden.

This fast-paced video is crammed with useful information and tips, so take notes and watch carefully.

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Compost, General Gardening Wisdom, Organic Gardening, Weed Control

Lasagna Gardening: Find Out Why You Should Care

Learn the steps for lasagna garden “cooking”

While it may seem confusing at first, lasagna gardening can be super helpful for both your soil and your plants. You will go right behind the curtains and learn how the lasagna gardening work. You will go through the 5 steps of preparing and “cooking” your lasagna garden and breathe new life to your plants. You will also learn when your garden is ready for planting.

 

As making real lasagna takes some time and sweating over it, so is it with your garden. Prepare for some hard work, but be rewarded many times over as you revive your soil. You’ll see a huge boost in your plants’ growth as a result.

As the name suggests, lasagna gardening or sometimes called sheet mulching is similar in concept to the cartoons “Garfield” favorite food, the lasagna. Like the food lasagna, this form of gardening follows the concept of layering different materials in the soil to make a perfect planting mix for our garden. By using carbon and nitrogen rich materials that are layered alternately one after the other, we can be sure that once our layered materials have broken down, then, the bests planting material that can be used in growing our garden will be achieved.   ……….

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Weed Control

Top Organic Weeding Tips

Find the best organic weeding technique for your garden.

Most gardens do have some degree of weeds.

Don’t attend to them and that “some degree” quickly escalates into a massive problem.

Every gardener should therefore understand what the different weeding methods are and which to apply in every situation.

This is a bit like an army battle plan, are you using an air attack or ground attack or are you sending in specialist forces?

Likewise, the level of thread the enemy posses will determine the strategy to employ.

This short video explains brilliantly how to use an array of weapons, from flamethrowers to more conventional methods.
And by the way – make sure you don’t get confused with what flamethrower to use …

Source: GrowOrganic Peaceful Valley
Image: Same as above & Wikimedia

Weed Control

4 Ways To Take Control Of Garden Weeds

Weeds are by far any gardeners’ enemy number one.  Some weeds are tough and will need more than one form of attack.

You have probably spent quite some time devising ways on getting rid of garden weeds once and for all. It is possible that you have not yet found a reliable long-term solution. Not all weeds will respond in the same way to the same treatment.  This article will introduce you to four different ways to attack even the most stubborn of weeds.

Learn about several purely natural methods, without the use of chemicals or suspicious sprays, and take full control of your own garden.

And if you have some great battle tactics of your own, we would love to get your feedback.

In early spring, weeds are polite, if enthusiastic, garden companions—but by the middle of summer they take on a whole new persona, growing so fast you can almost see them expand, rudely elbowing and overtaking your garden plants, and even threatening to take over your house if you leave for more than a few hours………..

A prime concern for controlling weed problems in the long term is not allowing them to go to seed! Off with their heads! Mow, string-trim, scythe, or hire goats—just get them cut down to size before any flowers open. One mowing won’t kill weeds with perennial roots, and even some of the annuals will regrow and try to flower again, but mowing is better than nothing, and when you do it periodically the short regrowth becomes a living mulch that helps protects your soil from wind and water…………

If you have any bare soil that gets sunlight and moisture, it will soon be home to sprouting weeds. The easiest way to prevent new weeds from sprouting from the many weed seeds sleeping in your soil is to keep the sun from hitting them and waking them up. Keeping the sun off older plants will also eventfully starve them to death (the more food they have stored underground, the longer the starvation takes—even years in some cases)…………..

So what about all those annoying weeds that pop up in places you can’t mow or mulch, such as in narrow cracks in your sidewalk or patio or intertwined with your perennials’ or shrubs’ roots………

Boiling water. If you have just a few cracks to deal with, just boil water in your tea kettle and pour a scalding stream along the crack to cook the roots. The weeds should be dead by the next day.

Flame-weeding. For larger areas, you may want to consider getting a special propane torch with a long handle called a flamer or a weed torch. No, you aren’t going to burn the weeds (and if they are dry enough to burn you shouldn’t even be thinking of firing up this tool); but waved over short green weeds for just long enough to cook them, a flame weeder is an amazing tool for keeping cracks, and even permanent fence lines, weed free. …………

In the past few decades, an increasing number of commercial products have been developed that kill plants on contact but are pretty much harmless once applied. Unlike the strongest and most notorious synthetic herbicides, these organic sprays are not taken up by the plant and are natural substances that break down rapidly in the environment.

This does NOT, however, mean you can’t hurt yourself with them in concentrated form. Read and follow all label cautions! ………….

 

Source:  Find the full article in www.rodalesorganiclife.com

Image Source: The image is from Petite Garden Center