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- Weeding in autumn: when weeds grow faster than allowed
- Wait and grow !?
- In fact, back-friendly weeding works that way
- A few more tips against the weed plague?
Weeds are much easier to remove if the soil is loosened beforehand
Weeding in autumn: when weeds grow faster than allowed
Just leaving weeds over winter does not work at all for the majority of recreational gardeners. If the weather is thereafter, a few hours should be scheduled for weed removal in the first few days of October, as too much vigorous growth unnecessarily removes the nutrients from the garden soil during the break, which we prefer to use again for our young plants in the spring.
Every garden owner has favored certain methods of weed control. Last month we reported on how to fight this plague in the smallest of spaces, for example in hard-to-keep joints of sidewalks or terraces. Here are some tips on how stinging nettles, couch grass, knotweed & Co. can be relegated a bit easier from the field.
Wait and grow !?
If it does not bother too much and spoils the garden look, just wait with the weeding for a few days longer with the weed control.Larger to remove the 5 to 10 cm high plants with stump and stalk from the bed, does a lot more than wild even with small, protruding from the soil leaflets and shoots with the hoe over the garden soil to pull and the small chopped green , afterwards laboriously and time-consuming to collect with your fingers.
In fact, back-friendly weeding works that way
The method has the advantage that the beds remain free of weeds at least three times as long as in normal hacking. The easiest thing is to work on your knees, where you have already seen gardeners who have tied a milking stool for it.
A few more tips against the weed plague?
Whichever option you choose, always keep in mind that weeds are not part of the compost unless it is seed-free and dried out. Due to the low temperatures of around 40 ° C that develop in the compost heap (4), the seedlings and seeds of the weeds do not always completely die off. They spread in the composter even unhindered and months later perhaps in the cold frame, if you mix in supposedly good faith, the mature compost as organic natural fertilizer under the ground. That would not be harmful to our lives, but poison for plant growth. But let's just stay a little bit more on the subject of poison?