Veggie Garden weeds

Get some cardboard from your local supermarkets, cut up the boxes and lay them between the rows and as high up the rows as you can but not interfere with the plants.

Then wet the cardboard real good so it gets soaked and bends to conform to the row. After that, cover all the cardboard with leaves, grass clippings, etc. and put about a 3 in. layer. I use oak leaves and get grass clippings from the local cemetery when the cutters are in there and their machines bag the clippings. I go behind them and pick up the bags to use in my garden.

The organic material and cardboard will decompose over the summer and you can simply till it under when you make your fall garden.

This helps a lot with weed control and also moisture retention in the soil since the sun is not baking the area.

I do the cardboard and mulch as well. I put some Preen down this morning too.

I love to pull weeds and then I add pre-emergence herbicide like Amaze, as needed. Add spaghnum moss and work into flower beds. Plant more seeds and fertilize different preexisting roses and lilies and perennials. That’s just my back yard flower beds. I’m replacing section that got destroyed by Ida with buddleia, tall new type salvia, foxglove and dahlias. Loss my tree so just Sun loving plants. Don’t miss raking leaves.

love to see people accepting this (fill no till). It’s the best way to let nature do the work for you

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To each his own, but 15min at the end of the workday everyday pulling weeds is one of the most “zen” things I do.

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This. After a rough day of work it's nice to do something that doesn't take much thought. Mowing, weeding, etc is how I decompress when I get home.

Use lawn pre-emergent in your garden, so long as you aren't sowing seeds in your garden, it won't harm plants at all.

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I put a layer of cardboard and them some straw down before the soil. This was after I dug up as many weeds as I could.

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I battle 4 weed types in my back yard garden. Nutsedge, oxalis, purslane and bush killer vine.

The last couple years it's been insane with purslane and especially oxalis. I've done OK with nutsedge and bush killer vine with the vine trying to invade my yard from neighboring yards.

Oxalis is unbelievable the way it spreads. No amount of weeding, weed killer, etc. puts much of a dent in it. Birds will spread it to potted plants and it takes hold there too.

If you have a garden, you will have weeds at some point in time.

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a large foam paintbrush to wipe the nutsedge.

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Able to knock them out in a single application?

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How do you handle this? It keeps popping up from a neighbor

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All you can do is pull it or spray it, but you will not get rid of it.

You can control it a bit, but probably never totally get rid of it.

I have a vegetable garden in my back yard and if that stuff lands in the garden when I'm weedeating along the fence, it will take root.