Use these helpful tips to get rid of those pesky bugs without having to use chemicals and not harming plants!
1. Pull them
Pulling weeds out is not as easy as they seem. To get a good root, you should start from the bottom and work your way up so that it’s easier for pulling out strands of grass/weeds together with their roots attached to them.
You can also collect all those little guys in one spot by using either an old cardboard box or jar lid and add them to the compost pile.
2. Suffocate them
Like the plants in our gardens, weeds have a tough time without adequate sunlight. You can kill them with proper care and maintenance to keep moisture levels high for healthy roots!
If you’re looking for an easy way to make your lawn look like it’s never been mowed, consider the following.
Covering several areas with large sheets of newspaper will help mulch cover any weeds that manage break through; just put down more layers until all vegetation is covered thoroughly!
3. Use homemade herbicide
For a good quality spray bottle, mix 2 c. white vinegar with ½ cup salt and dish soap in it until the sugar dissolves.
Be extra careful when using this near your garden beds as you can kill all of our veggies!
4. Scald Them
Don’t throw away pasta or potato water, but rather onto the weeds that grow in cracks between your sidewalk and patio. You mustn’t try this method with garden beds because it will hurt soil quality!
5. Salt Them
One way you can keep weeds from popping up in your yard is by sprinkling some salt along the edges of their pathways.
This will kill them and make sure they aren’t a problem for a while longer!
6. Burn Them
You can get a propane powered weed scorcher and just run the hot flame over weeds for some quick results.
7. Crowd Them Out
Let’s not forget about the ornamental areas of your garden. By following these few simple steps, you can keep those pesky weeds at bay and enjoy beautiful blooms all summer long!
These are the best plants for suppressing weeds:
- Emerald blue moss phlox (phlox subulata)
- Thriller lady’s mantle (alchemilla mollis)
- Walker’s low catmint (nepeta x faasenii)
- Golden fleece dwarf goldenrod (solidago sphacelata)
- Albiflouros creeping thyme (thymus praecox)
- Herman’s pride false lamium (lamiastrum galeobdolon)
- Majestic lilyturf (liriope)
8. Solarize your beds
Before you begin, till and rake the soil clear of any debris. Dig a small trench (about 8″) around your plants’ border so it doesn’t blow away or get moved around after planting time!
Lay down some plastic for protection and put the edges in the place you dug. Fill up the trenches with soil, making sure to fill it all in and pack down firmly.
Leave this for four weeks before removing your garden plastic bag or else risk having some blow away! After removing, till the soil again and add compost and fertilizer accordingly.