Rid your Garden of those Pesky Weeds
Weeds are fundamentally unwanted plants, which grow alongside your desirable garden plants. Don’t think it can’t hurt to have a few extra plants in the garden. Weeds are generally fast growing, as well as fast spreading, like an infectious disease, and they will choke your garden plants out of water, nutrients, sunlight, and growing space. They affect both plant yield and quality. A number of different methods for weed control exist for ending this nuisance.
One of the simplest methods of weed control is classified under the cultural weed control methods. Some plants are innately weed suppressing in nature. As such fast growing vegetable plants work well. Such plants would include beans, pumpkins, melons, potatoes, peas, squash, cucumber, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, corn etc. Other plants like peppers, carrots, lettuce, onions, greens, radishes, broccoli and cabbage are poor at weed suppression.
Mechanical methods are the most effective for weed control. Hand picking both before and after planting your seeds is a good technique. But lately a number of hand tools are available to the gardeners for weed control. Something like the Wolf-Garten 1355000 B 15 is ideal for tearing up soil and eliminating weeds. Other useful helpers include a springtooth hand cultivator, cuffle hoe, trowel, onion hoe, Warren hoe and Garden Weasel.
The most popular method of weed control is the chemical method. Most people use herbicides to control the growth and spread weeds. But herbicides should be use in an appropriate amount. Overuse of herbicide will result in damage to your garden plants while unde ruse will result in poor weed control.
One single method of weed control might not be very effective so it is best to use a multi-pronged assault to neutralize the threat. Happy Gardening.
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