How to completely clear a patch of land of weeds ready for a vegetable patch?
Saturday, February 20th, 2010 at
10:21 am
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I have a lovely lawn and a patio but there is a square of land at the bottom of my garden that is jam packed full of weeds. I would like to use this for a vegetable patch but at the start of the summer I cleared them all out and they just grew back in a matter of days. I went to the hardware store to ask about herbicide but he said nothing would grow there for a year. Any suggestions?
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Your hardware store guy was incorrect. Use the herbicide Roundup, or its generic equivalent. It has no residual effect. It is sprayed on, and is absorbed by leaves.
Lasagna Gardening-No Tilling
From gardener Arden:
Create a new gardening bed without tilling or pulling up grass and weeds:
Once you have a well defined garden bed, no need to clear it of grass or weeds, just layer about 6 or 8 newspaper sheets or cardboard over the bed area, water the paper or cardboard to the soaking point (this method will eventually smother whatever is growing there).
Over this paper or cardboard, you can build up layers of organic materials by using already made compost from your own pile or bought in bags from a nursery, chopped up leaves, grass clippings, chipped up prunings, produce trimmings, aged manure (not dog or cat), whatever you can gather that will rot. Pile it on as thick as you can and be sure it is kept well moistened as if you are watering a garden each week. This is known as lasagna gardening.
Or you can mix everything together and then pile it on top of the paper or cardboard if you prefer.
If you would like to have a top layer, wood chips can often be found at your city’s Parks & Recreation Dept., or you can check with your local nurseries. This will make a good top dressing to keep moisture in and to keep wind from blowing away your lasagna.
This material will break down and become a rich, loose loam. Keep adding to this each year and you will have a very nice gardening bed.
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And here is another way from gardener Merrybelle:
Lasagna gardening:
Lasagna gardening is simply a short cut to digging and tilling up an area for new beds. I live on a hillside and part of our now yard used to be pasture land , so not only is the land compacted, it’s also clay based with wild Bermuda in a goodly portion of it.
To lasagna, you normally spray the grass with a grass/weed killer (I’ll get creamed by the environmentalists on this one).
Then you lay down your cardboard/newspapers.
On top of this you put compost, top soil, potting soil, shredded leaves, etc.
You are now ready to plant your beds.
When using newspapers, they need to be thick, that’s why I prefer cardboard. It suppresses the greenery underneath while decomposing, thereby enriching the soil. For some reason, the papers/cardboard draw earthworms like crazy, which is also good for aeration of the soil.
You obviously cannot till in your dirt mixture immediately, that’s why most people let the topsoil/compost/potting soil/shredded leaves sit for awhile on top of the cardboard/newspaper layers, to give them time to decompose. This is esp. true if you are going to be digging holes for shrubs, roses, anything that required more than a minimum of root cover.
Being the impatient person that I am, I normally plant immediately on top, but then, I’m planting shallow rooted things like lilies, etc.
All of my beds are lasagna’d – ie, layered.
So in a nutshell, lasagna gardening is layer gardening, a quicker way to create new beds, esp. for us older folks who can’t double dig, or who have very poor soil.
Bleach works really well when you are low on budget.
the best thing is cover the plot with black bags or anything that stops the sunlight getting through to the ground and leave it like this over winter and start again next year
Roundup will kill everything in 7 days. Wait another few days and should be able to till the ground and start growing plants
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Thanks a Lot !!! but really want to try it once , will let u know how it goes……….
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Old Russian method is sprinkle the following on your garden:
1 cup of water
1 tsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp salt
1tbs mineral powder
Mix together and spray them on weeds.
Pica!
Oh, also, I had a hard time reading the article and remembering that he was studying weeds, not weed. #iamtwelve.
putting a clear coat of varnish or acryic on a small item is a lot different then doing it on a car.
The best clear coats are two part epoxy like mixes that are sprayed on while the bottom (color) coat is still tacky so that they bond).
Clear coat with a can will give you a single coat and you had better be VERRRRRRY good to keep the application uniform and to prevent the nozzle from spitting. If you are PERFECT with it you can get ready to do it again because you will need to put a couple of coats of that stuff on to make it look good AND last. PLUS we havent even talked about dust or that pesky fly that will land there as soon as you turn away.
As you can tell, my advice is to have it done, or rent a sprayer, build a temporary spray booth with plastic sheeting.
BUT if you must try this, then I suggest you first pick a small area that is easy to fix and try it there.
Then decide if you want to do the whole thing…
Good Luck
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omg, so rude
well, that was uncalled for.
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Sadly they’re much to small to use as stakes. And the only way to remove this patch by digging it up would be to enlist the help of a backhoe which isn’t an option right now. The best alternative I’ve found that doesn’t involve poison is segregating the bamboo you want to kill from the main clump (which is on my neighbor’s property) at the root level and then cutting the bamboo down like grass every few months. Eventually it uses the energy stored in the rhizomes and won’t grow back (which is why segregating it from the rhizomes of the main clump is so important).
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