Garden Weed Control Tips For "Weed Your Garden Day"

Gardening

oi-Anjana NS

By Anjana Ns

Monday, June 13, 2011, 14:10

It is "Weed Your Garden Day" today and accordingly, let's make use of the day in a valuable way. Weeds are the villains of the garden, the unwanted plants survive harder and stronger killing all the good plants. They live like parasites, taking all the necessary nutrients added for the other flowering and vegetable plants.

Since it is monsoon, it is time to make use of the season. The day is commemorated in June as the rainy season is the best time to remove weeds, why?, because the it is easy to uproot plants from the damp soil. Take a look at some important garden weed control tips that can help you have a healthy green garden.

Garden Weed Control Tips -

1. The first step would be the identification of weeds. Types of noxious weeds that are harmful or poisonous to humans, animals, and wildlife need to be eliminated and for that, one of the best ways is to make them grow by an inch and right after the rain, uproot then from the wet soil. This will completely remove the weeds from deep (root level) cutting down its further growth.

2. Digging pits for plants like a vessel will help the plant for healthy germination. The water that is poured, the manure added, the mulch will successfully lead to the plant as the pit is spherical thus stopping other unwanted plants like both garden weeds and lawn weeds to grow in the area.

3. Monsoon is the best season to sow the seeds as watering isn't difficult. The natural rain will sprinkle good amount of water to the sprouts and help plants in speedy growth. But apart from rain water, adding boiling water on soil will kill the dispersed seeds and roots of the weeds.

4. Spraying garlic water or neem water over the plants and soil will help in disease free plants as well as avoid garden weed growth.

5. For lawn weeds, adding rock salt, spraying vinegar and soap water will efficiently help in destroying weeds. These garden weed control tips are organic tips, beneficial and non toxic.

Although weeds are always termed bad for gardens, there are bigger enemies. Insects, germs and pests have make greater damages than these unwanted plants so having them around will help. They are better protecting agents and can be grown as garden binds.