Gardening

Sorry. Other than torching weeds in sidewalk/driveway cracks and hand-pulling, I don’t have any experience with “more-natural” weed control.

I don’t have much experience with weed killers in general, as my husband does much of the yard maintenance. But he was talking the other day about an article he saw about making homemade “weed killer tea” using your lawn’s grass clippings and letting them soak for 3 days or so, then draining and using the water or “tea” to kill weeds. A problem with this approach is that you need A LOT to do a whole yard.

This article talks about using vinegar as a weed killer:
http://www.no-dig-vegetablegarden.com/organic-weed-control.html

Thanks Sharon for the input I might look into that approach. I think the best thing for me to do is simply hand pull it all out

Once you get your grass going its easy to control. I have never used broadcast herbicides in my lawns. Ever. Healthy lawns take care of themselves for the most part. I only need to spot spray or pull occasional weeds. I fertilize about 3 times per year.

To add to Suzuki’s reply, if you think about it, water is a great weed killer for a lawn. Healthy lawns choke out those weeds and the most important thing besides fertilizer is water.

Roundup inerts itself with contact to the ground. Let it kill the plants then bag them up for recycling.

That’s right Tom. But always leave a border around water areas. Other than that round-up works great for a total kill of most plants.

Since we are sharing garden pictures i have been very happy with my spring project so i thought i would share

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Those are some nice raised beds. I bet they soil warms up quick with the metal around them. Are they set in the ground or just sitting on top?

This is my first yr trying them, so far the plants seem to like them. They are just setting on the ground.

my long term goal is to use a frame then i can make it like a mini green house down the road as well

I picked a couple gallons of strawberries yesterday and have been enjoying them in shortcake and muffins. This is going to be a banner year for the strawberries and if we continue to get moisture every four or five days the raspberries are going to be something else too.

Tom Sawvell wrote:

I picked a couple gallons of strawberries yesterday and have been enjoying them in shortcake and muffins. This is going to be a banner year for the strawberries and if we continue to get moisture every four or five days the raspberries are going to be something else too.

and here I thought it was your green thumb and all those crappie gutz Tom!

Good news everyone! (Channeling my inner Professor Farnsworth, there.) Over the weekend, I picked the first of my leaf lettuce and it was delicious! I had enough to pick for a whole salad, but we ended up just having it on burgers and then Billy took some in for a BBQ at work. The carrots and peas are coming nicely and the potato plants look fantastic as well.

My toms look great. I bought larger plants to start out with this year and having my soil sampled at the U really paid off. Beans came in sporadic. Bad batch I guess. Same with cukes. I had to replant them numerous times to get 4 started. No more buying seeds at Gertens. I sure miss Dege.

I get all of my seeds from Baker Creek. http://www.rareseeds.com Everything they sell is non-GMO, heirloom seeds that are guaranteed to be true to type.

I couldn’t be happier.

I have snap peas everywhere right now. Just waiting for them to fatten up. My bush pickle plants multiplied in size by 4 times over the last week.

I picked all the kalhrabi as it was all almost softball sized. My cabbage heads are formed, and probably only need another week or so. I have probably 50 baby tomatoes, the biggest the size of a golf ball so far.

My bush beans are fighting back after being eaten down to stem twice by a rabbit. They are actually flowering now. About 1/4 of my onions are bulbing well, the others, not so much. They’re not bolting though, so I guess I just need to give them some more time.

I will definitely need two raised beds next year, some of this stuff got out of control. 4 and 5 foot pea plants and cabbage taking everything over has gotten a bit out of control. Square foot gardening should be called square yard gardening.

lhprop1 wrote:

I get all of my seeds from Baker Creek. http://www.rareseeds.com Everything they sell is non-GMO, heirloom seeds that are guaranteed to be true to type.

I couldn’t be happier.

Very cool. Hope I remember that place next year!