Re: Weeds, Weeds, Weeds

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• Subject: Re: Weeds, Weeds, Weeds
• From: k*@ix.netcom.com (Kevin B. O'Brien)
• Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:28:22 GMT
• In-Reply-To: <004801beb352$5a1b95c0$5809f7a5@rita>
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On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:03:07 -0400, "Rita"
<mkingkade@mindspring.com> , late of Pablo Fanques Fair wrote:

>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
>I confess to being a complete novice so please bear with my dumb question.
>
>I planted some stuff and it is doing nicely.  Then just a couple days ago
>many, many, hundreds of tiny weeds raised their ugly heads.  They are flat
>little things and have four or five leaves each.  I used my trowel and dug
>them up and sort of smoothed the dirt back over.  Will they reroot or do I
>have to pick each and everyone out?  This would be a bit difficult as they
>are so tiny.
>
>To keep them from returning, I gather it would be wise to use some kind of
>ground cover?  I really don't want to use plastic sheeting as my little
>garden is in
>front of my house and this would be pretty ugly.  How about wood chips?
>Will they keep weeds down?  Anything else?

I would strongly urge you to use an organic mulch of some kind. This
will not only keep down the weed population, it will also help
retain moisture, and as it breaks down it will feed your soil.

Wood chips would be fine. I use them a lot because I can get them
for free. Dry grass clippings would be OK, or rice hulls, or
whatever.

I place a thick layer of mulch on all of my beds, and rarely have to
do anything else other than thin the perennials from time to time.


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