Considerable cloudiness. Occasional rain showers after midnight. Low 39F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 60%..

Considerable cloudiness. Occasional rain showers after midnight. Low 39F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 60%. Hepa Filter Fabric

Considerable cloudiness. Occasional rain showers after midnight. Low 39F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 50%..

Considerable cloudiness. Occasional rain showers after midnight. Low 39F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 50%.

If you love to grow shrubs, flowers, and vegetables, it is a sad fact of life you will also be contending with those not so lovable relatives. Weeds, toxic plants and even stumps and dead trees can be stubborn problems, but these tips will help you find solutions that work while still protecting your cherished plants.

A weed is any plant-even an ornamental-that grows where you don’t want it. Common weeds are fast-growing, resilient nuisances that not only make the garden look unsightly but also steal nutrients and light from other plants, and they may host pests and diseases. But please don’t automatically reach for the sprayer to treat lawn and garden weeds. A combination of the right. Tools, some elbow grease and some good old know how will usually do the trick.

Weeds can be annuals, biennial, or perennial. Annuals and biennials reproduce by shedding seeds-but a single plant of some weeds can spread by roots, stems, and seeds.

Weed seeds need light to germinate. Keep the soil around your plants covered with organic mulch, black plastic mulch, layers of wet newspaper, or fabric weed barrier.

Use edging materials like bricks or underground barriers of metal of plastic around garden beds to keep lawn grass and perennial weeds from creeping into flowerbeds and vegetable plots.

Solarizing the soil means letting the sun do the weeding for you. Till the soil and water it. Lay a sheet of clear plastic over the area, anchor the edges with stones and wait four to six weeks. The sun’s heat will cook weed seeds and maybe soilborne diseases as well. Don’t dig the solarized plot before planting because cultivating will bring buried weed seeds to the surface.

Cultivate your garden in the fall by working in plenty of compost. Rake beds or rows into the shapes you want, then mulch the surface with newspapers topped with straw, chopped leaves or other organic mulch. In spring, there will be weeds to pull and your garden will be ready to plant.

Instead of digging out weeds and grass, smother them to death with a piece of old carpeting. This method works best during the hottest weeks of summer. Remove the cover in the fall, dig up the bed, and it will be ready to plant first thing in spring.

You can toss weeds into the pile if they are young and have not yet bloomed, because they have no seeds that will come back to haunt you next year. To kill weed seeds, compost needs to heat up to 160 degrees and few heats ever get that hot. One solution is to dispose of weeds in a special compost heap, then use the finished compost only when amending deep planting holes, where the weed seeds are buried at least four inches below the soil surface.

Don’t let soil remain bare for any length of time or weeds will move right in-they think that is their job. If you remove plants from a bed, blanket the openings with mulch or plant a cover crop or another plant.

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