How to control the weeds by cultivating your garden, is an important task for any serious gardener, and it must be consistent for a real gardening success.
Those pesky weeds sometimes can get on your nerves. You put all your efforts and passion in planting your favorite flowers or vegetables, after you made your garden clean and neat looking, and when you check after a while to see how they doing, you find out that you can't hardly see your plants anymore, because of them awful weeds!
So, the thing to do is to cultivate the garden as soon as the weeds emerge, and keep doing it until most of the seeds in the ground has just about sprouted out. You will always have some weeds, as the wind is blowing, it will bring some new seeds in your garden. But at least the weeds are not going to be there to the point when they will just smother your good plants.
To cultivate your garden you can use a tiller if you have one, or if you prefer and enjoy hoeing by hand for a healthy and beneficial exercise, go for it! It is good for you. And stay on them weeds until you pretty much get rid of them.
It is always better to control by cultivation instead of using chemical herbicides, especially when you garden with vegetables. You don't want to poison your body, do you? Once those chemicals get in your system it can cause some serious health problems.
That's why I'm always for an organic way of gardening. Organic fertilizing, organic composting, organic pest control, organic weed control, etc. It should always be organic as much as possible.
As the autumn is coming upon us without even realizing how fast the time is passing, a good and beneficial practice would be to cultivate your garden plot periodically during the fall and in the winter, when and if the weather will permit. It all depends in what region of the world you live in.
As the climates are different, so are the circumstances, of course, but generally speaking the cultivating is a great way to control the weeds as soon as they emerge, and the sooner the better.
You should never delay the controlling of weeds until they go to seed. This will create a perpetual problem and it will make it so much harder to control and to get rid of them.
For a successful gardening and in the preparation for a new garden or just for the next season, the cultivating of the weeds should be a rather important task. It should also be a practice applied consistently, whenever the weeds are becoming to the point where they just are out of control.
Remember, the weeds are always growing faster than the good plants. It's just their nature to take over. But we will not going to let them, do we?
Buy controlling the weeds with a timely cultivation, you can give your plants a much better chance for growing and producing an abundant crop of vegetables, or blooms if you are growing flowers.
Controlling the weeds by cultivation is important and it will assure a successful gardening. Not withstanding the fact that you will have a clean nice looking garden ready to impress everyone.
Another way to control the weeds, once you have done your cultivating, is by applying mulch. We will be talking about this subject in a future posting.
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Until next time, Happy Gardening!
Mike Borlovan
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