Worried about chemicals herbicides destroying your horticulture while you use them to take weeds out? Well, you don’t have to resort to chemicals anymore for here are the organic means to get rid of them without messing with your soil.
Gardening as a hobby can test your patience. It not only includes waiting for your plants to grow in time but also making sure unwanted wild shrubs and mosses do not absorb nutrition from your plant. Weeding your garden does take a lot of persistence, and using chemical herbicides can damage the soil and plants you have grown with so much care. To go organic on the process, here is what you can do to make sure the weeds are taken care of with your veggies and flowers growing well and healthy.
Mulching-
Trapping your garden soil with a layer of organic matter will smother the weed from within and prevent its germination. Mulch a persistent weed with a compost made from bark, wood chips, cardboard waste, grass clipping, straw and other organic matter. Do not add hay as the unwanted seeds on hay can add other weed growing on your compost. Add thick materials that will decompose eventually but will smother the weed without sunlight and air.
Hand Digging-
Manual tilling with a shovel is as useful as any other for ripping off weeds. Rip them off before they mature to grow seedlings. Make sure you demarcate areas where there is reparative growth of weeds. The unwanted shrubs tend to leave seeds and grow in the same place. Scrape a part of the ground to make sure no remains stay in the soil.
Competition-
Weeds need a more significant ground to grow. If there is no open space left for it to grow, it won’t spread roots. Try covering the ground with ornamental plant beds to allow no room for the weed to spread. Battling for space, the weeds being smaller often lose the competition and die.
Regulate The Fertilizer And Water-
The nutrients provided to the soil encourage unwanted plants to spread roots. Skip the irrigation and nutrients for the earth that has no cultivation to avoid the growth of weeds while the ground is empty.
Solarize-
The process of covering unwanted patches of land with heavy plastic is known as solarizing. While the sunlight is strong, place the sheet over the weed bed to make it bake and die for you to churn it in the soil to make good fertilizer out of it.
