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Question by Tracy R: How do I start a vegetable garden in a weed infested area?
We have a 20 x 50 foot area for a vegetable garden. It has a ton of weeds. This Spring we used a hoe, cut down the weeds, pulled a ton of them then sprayed weed killer on top. Now it’s mid-Summer and the weeds are taking over again. What can I do?
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Answer by letoya_5
smoke em weed
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Till the area.
Make sure that you rip the weeds out by the roots.
How often do you weed? Its probably going to need to be every day or two at least to keep on top of the weeds during the summer. You coulkd try covering any unused patches of ground with a black plastic mulch to stop more growing though
You have to kill the seeds, too!
Put a black tarp over the area in the summer.
The heat will cook the seeds.
Add 3″ of sand and 4″ of soil if you really want to be safe.
Have fun!
ripe them out
dry it
dig it
put new soil
Weeds will persist for several years (like forever) because they have dropped their seed into the soil. The only way is to keep digging the garden and shaking the dirt from the roots of the weeds that you pull up. Personally I don’t like weedkiller because so many weedkillers contain chemicals that are environmentally dangerous. It IS hard work, year after year to continually pull weeds, BUT it means that you have fertile soil, and gradually it should start to improve if you persist.
Learn from the weeds, notice which types are most prolific, and try to select veggies to grow which share the same preferences for type of soil, and microclimate (shade, dew, rainfall etc.)
First you must smoke all the weed. Be sure to have plenty of munchies and then plant you’re vegetables.
stop using chemicals and pull the weeds by hand carefully keep up with them when they’re small and try using ground covers they will also help to retain moisture next spring you can put a plastic sheet down and the sun will help to kill weed seeds by raising the ground temp its more work but worth the effort