💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx.
Weeds are an inevitable part of gardening. Their often persistent nature can make for a truly frustrating experience! But you don’t have to let them get the better of you.
From puny annual weeds that can be dispatched with a hoe to more troublesome perennials that need a more considered strategy, there are ways to win the war on weeds.
In this short video we share our top tactics for getting – and keeping – weeds under control in your vegetable garden.
If you love growing your own food, why not take a look at our online Garden Planner or Garden Journal which are available from several major websites and seed suppliers:
http://www.GrowVeg.com
http://gardenplanner.almanac.com
http://gardenplanner.motherearthnews.com
and many more…
To receive more gardening videos subscribe to our channel here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=GrowVeg
If you’ve noticed any pests or beneficial insects in your garden lately please report them to us at http://BigBugHunt.com
We have bermuda so bad that I can hardly garden in ground anymore. Plus we have clay soil and it’s very difficult to pull even when damp. Impossible when dry! Any advice on how to amend the soil so it’s easier to work? Short of replacing the top 12 inches! Which is tempting but way too much work!
My raised vegetable garden is looking pretty decent probably owing to the fact that we just built it 4 years ago. However, my perennial flower garden is an absolute mess. Our previous neighbors had thistle feeders and the seeds evidently found their way into the flowers. This was 15 years ago and I am still battling thistles. Also creeping Charlie, quack grass, clover, and numerous other little demons that refuse to be gone. Admittedly, I am not the best at daily gardening. Tried the black plastic covering last year and put the fall leaves over to keep it in place. The thistles are pushing right through the plastic barrier. UGH!
Loved this video to help me double my efforts in weed control. Going out to sharpen my hoe and get on it now!
Would "Hot Heap" composting kill weed roots and seeds?
Crab grass and hard dirt here in SoCal. Ugh.
I have a small parcel where soil is mostly made of solid clay, so most of the these operations are much harder. I digged/plowed the first year as good as I could, I'm thinking of continuing manual removal of weeds and then use cover crops to reduce their space.
Are some weeds actually good for the soil?
Can you do a video on growing Saffron Crocus?
I have a 50×80 foot garden and this year Nut sedge and creeping charlie has taken over and won. I used clear plastic for a month but the stuff came right back. I don't really want to, but am ready to use chemicals in my vegetable garden. Help!!!
I am fighting onion weeds at the moment and it is quite a stuggle. Their bulbs are buried so deep and when you dig them out they carry mini-bulbs that spread. But leave them in ground they keep growing no matter how frequently I cut them back! I am going to try mulching and see if that helps
I have discovered it generally takes me 3 to 4 years to completely clear a raised garden planter here in Louisiana. The initial 2 years will want to make you pull your hair out but by the 4th it becomes a real joy.
In my second year of having an allotment and can say the weeds really are winning. I have a plan though to put paths in so no need to weed them and to have a lot more mulching done. We may be losing the fight but we have not lost the war, yet.
Sometimes you just have to use weedkiller. My garden hadn't been dug in 7 years. I had a 4 inch mat of bindweed and grass roots that I couldn't get a fork or spade into. I blasted it with weedkiller then dug it over with a JCB. Pulled out a pile of weed roots as high as my chest. Now I have thistles, dandelions, etc growing. The bindweed and grass roots suppressed the thistles.
I moved into a house 4 years ago that was over grown with thorny weeds. Using various methods like hand pulling, digging, tilling and skimming, it was backbreaking work the first 2 years. Then 2 years later I adopted the no dig method and was surprised how well mulching with cardboard and wood chips killed perennial weeds without effort. I swear by mulching now, and has already cleared many areas where thorny brambles used to dominate. I have vastly increased my growing area without hurting my back or being scratched to hell by thorns.
Are there any weeds you WOULDN’T put into the bucket of water – as mentioned?
To keep weeds down on freshly flatened gardens, whilst renovating an old house we bought, that needed renovating in and out we used old hessain backed pure wool carpet, placed upside down on the ground and held down with pavers. We obtained the carpet from carpet stores skip (rubbish) bins 9 with their permission). It gave us time to plan and juggle reno jobs. The natural fibres of the hessian and pure wool, allowed the soil to breathe, so not killing off micro organisims etc. It took us a year to finish the gardens front and back and it did a great job. TWO drawbacks though – you have to cart the carpet off to the tip yourself when done with it and if at the time of removal if it was wet weather, the carpet was heavy. The carpet is still in parts of my garden, under the raised garden beds, covered with gravel in between the beds and surrounding the trees we planted as a hedge.
2 and half years on everything is looking great still in those areas. The natural fibres will eventually break down, but as they are natural, as is good.
Great advice. Thank you. My war on bindweed is on!
Nut grass is the bane of my garden here in Southern California. Pull as I may, deep down below is a nut like rootball that spreads far and wide and pops up another shoot. Daily struggle.
So do we deprive weeds of sunlight for one whole year?
any tricks o getting reed of any and all weds without chemicals
ment to say any and all kinds of tricks on getting red of weeds may be by changing the type of soil i have in my soil?what do you think
When I first moved here 6 years ago, I could easily see where his garden was, there was zero growth in the hardpan clay. All around the garden was 6 foot weeds. I waited for a hardy rain, then easily yanked them out of the muddy clay (I didn't use them for compost, just burned them all). After telling/showing the local Farm Co-op what I had, they sold me gypsum, perlite (huge bag course), vermiculite (also huge bag), bone meal, greensand, blood meal, and 2 bales of straw. I remember asking how much I needed of each for my 4-25' rows, and he said, "Just use ALL of it!" LOL! Anyway, it was the best investment I've ever made. Since then, I've added 12 more rows (4 rows each of next 3 years), and bought exactly the same products each time. Have had to add poultry netting around parts of the garden, because the raccoons have discovered it… but my freezer is always full!
Thanks for your great little video. I'm in the process of extracting each and every weed in my lawn. And then after scarifying and re-seeding I'll employ a zero tolerence approach!
Thank for keeping me positive, sometimes I feel like, I give up☺️
I’d like to remove weeds that have many horizontal runner roots so that I can plant perennials in a plant bed. How long do I need to leave cardboard down to kill the weeds? Also, there are plants intermingled with weeds — Should I cover these with cardboard too? I want to make sure these weeds are gone before I replant since I removed th once already and they can back with a vengeance! I used a plant identifier app and it says the weeds are “creeping bellflower” but I’m not sure if this is correct as I’ve never seen it flower. Thank you!!!
A very helpful video full of sound advice on how to battle the dread weeds, thank you so very much 🙂
Hi there, really enjoy your videos have learnt so much! I seem to remember a video ages ago with a recipe for homemade weed killer to use over gravel, could you provide a link to it I can't seem to find it… Many thanks!
The thumb shows dandelions, which are medicinal, highly nutritious from root to flower and an essential source for bees.
Thanks with info .. i use a gas burner but soil has to be ventilate also
Happily i have a small garden !!!!
Mulch(wood chips) also help keep slugs out