My OperaGarden weeding!
Monday, March 11, 2013 9:41:30 PM
Taking care of the garden is great. It's a maintenance thing and requires consistency, but if you really care about something, I think it makes it that much easier.
A lot of people are overly interested in tracking down the entirety of a weed's roots so they don't come back. This is good, and if you can get it out nicely, all the better. But listen, if you can't, don't stress it. There's no sense in impacting the plants around it by pulling out long hairs of roots. The basics are that the green top of the weed is taken out so it's not an eyesore and so it's not competing for sunlight. If a weed does come back, so be it. Constant vigilance will never go out of style anyways. You may save on a few weed pulls by tracking down the roots as best you can, but weeding will remain constant. Seeds drift in on the wind and so it's not as though you'll be solving a problem for good. Here's some of my front section coming in already:
Now I have chats with several kinds of gardeners. We all have different takes on weeding. A few smaller gardeners like myself are very much against the chemical weeding solutions. We find it lazy, toxic, and honestly unnecessary. Now mind you, much of that is because of our scale. If you're out there with a home garden and you're looking for weeding solutions, do yourself a favor and find your garden gloves and a trowel first. You'll be glad you did. Now the one side of this that does tend to make sense are the guys who deal with large fields. Once you start scaling the size of your acreage, you scale the workload. It's understandable. But please, if you're like me, you'll be much happier with your garden if you're hands on. Besides, as you weed, you give yourself a chance to get up close and personal with the well being of your plants as you go. Many need pruning, sometimes rocks need to be thrown out, and by and large, you're more plugged in to the garden and what it takes to make it better.
As you may have guessed, I'm one of those constant gardeners. I don't believe it's something you can ever put down and let go of like those destination activities. You don't ever get there - but by being consistent in your work, the garden's at its best!
Until next time!
A lot of people are overly interested in tracking down the entirety of a weed's roots so they don't come back. This is good, and if you can get it out nicely, all the better. But listen, if you can't, don't stress it. There's no sense in impacting the plants around it by pulling out long hairs of roots. The basics are that the green top of the weed is taken out so it's not an eyesore and so it's not competing for sunlight. If a weed does come back, so be it. Constant vigilance will never go out of style anyways. You may save on a few weed pulls by tracking down the roots as best you can, but weeding will remain constant. Seeds drift in on the wind and so it's not as though you'll be solving a problem for good. Here's some of my front section coming in already:
Now I have chats with several kinds of gardeners. We all have different takes on weeding. A few smaller gardeners like myself are very much against the chemical weeding solutions. We find it lazy, toxic, and honestly unnecessary. Now mind you, much of that is because of our scale. If you're out there with a home garden and you're looking for weeding solutions, do yourself a favor and find your garden gloves and a trowel first. You'll be glad you did. Now the one side of this that does tend to make sense are the guys who deal with large fields. Once you start scaling the size of your acreage, you scale the workload. It's understandable. But please, if you're like me, you'll be much happier with your garden if you're hands on. Besides, as you weed, you give yourself a chance to get up close and personal with the well being of your plants as you go. Many need pruning, sometimes rocks need to be thrown out, and by and large, you're more plugged in to the garden and what it takes to make it better.
As you may have guessed, I'm one of those constant gardeners. I don't believe it's something you can ever put down and let go of like those destination activities. You don't ever get there - but by being consistent in your work, the garden's at its best!
Until next time!
