Simple Secrets to Weeding

 3 Simple Secrets to Weeding Weedless Flowers - Continue Weeding!

Yes, it is really possible to have weed-free flowering plants throughout the summer. Yes, it is possible to keep them neat and tidy without weeding for hours! Keeping your flowering plants without weeds can be frustrating, tiring, and overwhelming. Also, it can definitely feel like an endless summer job. Continuous weeding, mulching, re-mulching, and re-weeding will quickly become obsolete. But it does not have to be that way. In fact, with just 3 simple secrets, you can keep your flowers healthy, beautiful, and free of weeds throughout the summer. By working less and having more time to really enjoy them!

3 Simple Secrets to Removing Weedless Flowers

1 More Plants - Less Mulch!

Although mulch is an important part of keeping beds clean and tidy, it should never be the first line of defense. It should not be the most visible or used material in your flowerbed. Instead, that respect should go to the plants! The primary key to keeping flowers free of weeds is to fill your flowerpot completely with plants - not mulch. Imagine planting it as a living weed barrier. Unfortunately, for the most part, flowering plants are filled with significantly more mulch than plants. It is simply a recipe for disaster. All of that open space is nothing more than future weeding work. And an expensive place! Instead, fill your beds with perennials, annuals, and small shrubs and bushes that grow together. By allowing the plants to grow together, weeds and weed seeds remove the wide-open spaces where a house can be found. And there are additional benefits to those dense plantings. The thick covering of the foliage helps to retain moisture in the soil, which means you have less irrigation work. Also, even healthy, strong plants. But most of all, it saves a lot on buying mulch! When it comes to saving money, packing flowers with plants does not have to be expensive. In fact, in many cases, it's completely free!

Filling flowers at an affordable price

All of the flowering plants around our farm are completely filled with seedlings and cuttings. We have taken the existing jackfruits and divided them and created hundreds and hundreds of plants for free.

2 The Power of Mulch - 3 Secrets to Weedless Flowers

Now it comes to the topic of stopping the most important weeds - mulch! One of the most common mistakes when mulching flowering plants is to fail to apply adequate mulching. It is not enough to lay down an inch or two of mulch around perennials, annuals, and shrubs. It does not bury weed seeds in the soil below without germination. Seeds blown from a distance cannot be prevented from finding a way to germinate in the soil below.

In flowering plants, mulch should be placed at a depth of at least 4 inches. It should be used on a single line to protect from the beginning. A single, thicker coating will prevent weeds than multiple applications throughout the year. By applying it heavily from the beginning, weeds can be suppressed and new seeds can be prevented from going down into the soil. This does not mean that you can not add mulch later if necessary, but start your beds with the care they need, and your weeding work will be significantly reduced.

What about weed control fabric?

So you may ask, what if I use a weed cloth? Unfortunately, weed control fabric produces more work than ever before. Especially in a couple of years when the weeds start to form on top of the fabric in the rotting mulch. In fact, once the weeds start weaving through the fabric, they will be even harder than before!

3 Don't return that mulch! 3 Secrets to Weedless Flowers

Last but not least, and the best advice of all - stop working so hard! In fact, the less you bother working on your flowering plants, the fewer weeds you will have. Many gardeners like to refresh the look of their beds by stirring the mulch every week. Unfortunately, each time the mulch is cleared, the weed seeds are "planted" back under the soil. At the surface, the germination capacity of the seeds is low. But once they turn down, they can easily find the soil they need to germinate. The next round of weeding will begin!

In addition, do not dig the beds too much or too much in the spring before planting. It's too much weed Only helps to plant weeds. Instead, make planting holes of only the required size and leave the remaining soil unmixed. Finally, walk every day or two to be on top of your flowers. It's very easy to pull a small weed seedling here and there is a 5-minute walk around your beds. But let those weeds go for a week or two and it will be ten or twenty times as much of a problem!