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Re: Weeds, Weeds, Weeds

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 You can use the plastic sheeting then cover with wood chips or any other medium. I just go out every day and do my best to pluck out at least a handful of those pesky guys. Jessica
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On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:03:07   Rita wrote:
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>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?
>
>Thank you for your patience.
>
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