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Re: Weeds, Weeds, Weeds

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Go to the garden supply store or Home Depot or its clone and buy a stirrup 
hoe.  They cost @ $15 for an inexpensive one and are 3-5 inches wide.  
Wonderful tool;  cuts weeds both on the push & pull.  Run it about 1/2 inch 
to 1 inch below the surface when the weeds are about1/2-1 inch high.  They 
will be back again in a few weeks.  Do it again.  By then your plants will 
be fairly good sized and will shade out further weed growth.  Pick by hand 
the few you can not get with the hoe.





> >
> >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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