As summer has been and gone I have been trying to do up my garden, I have a 30ft long garden probably bigger and I have only recently moved in so I thought this is perfect timing and set to work to de-weed the garden and plant some lovely flowers with my three children.
I spent about a week in May digging up the ground it was so hard from the sun but I did it and I started to pull out the various different weeds.
For the next few weeks it rained and rained and rained and guess what it still rained. I never got to finish the garden and now the weeds have multiplied. Where do they come from, even where I pulled them out they have just come back again.
I decided to do some research into where they come from and apparently they are just plants that grow in the wrong place.
Apparently when you remove the weed what you don't see is that there are hundreds of seeds that have been there for hundreds of years probably and are just waiting for us to dig up and move the soil around so they can start to grow which makes sense really because have you ever wondered why some roots are so deep in to ground and others are just at the top.
How can we get rid of these annoying ‘plants'?
There have been many solutions to the weed problem over the centuries the Romans believed that if the weeds were uprooted in the fourth quarter of the moon, then they would not return. In the thirteenth century, preparing the planting area involved the use of boiling water to kill the weeds.
Dandelions were chopped one inch below the surface and a spoon of salt placed on the cut root.
Today we use weed killer and there are hundreds out there how do we know which one to use?
It doesn't really matter which one as long as it's done at the right time, after the removal of the weeds when the seeds have been moved around and before planting the new flowers.
Other weeds called Biennials should be done in the autumn.
Heavy rain fall and funnily enough drought and low temperature can make the weeds less lightly to take in the weed killer as they are growing properly at this time.
For the organic kind of weed killer you can use distilled vinegar.
So how will all this keep the weeds away, well it wont?
To keep your garden weed free cover with bark and gravel, no sunlight no weeds no nice flower beds without weeds.
