I collected hay bales after Halloween from places that used them as a fall decoration. They made fantastic row cover as I broke off 4-5" sections and laid them very close together down my paths so no sun got through. I have spent less than 1 hour since March, pulling weeds in my path and in my garden which is grown in composted mulch. So easy. Wish I had as easy a system for insects, also!
Excellent Mary, that's the kind of gardening that makes growing a harvest more achievable. For insects, you might want to consider fleece or fine mesh row covers (depending on season).
I am still fighting with weeds here and did a few (5) years research intensively. Rain +sun=weeds. And we get tons of rain and so hot here in Fl. I did soil solarization. It works but I also did cover crops. It works better. So, now I know it is just matter of time. I still mulch . Now, I have invasive vines. This is extremely hard to manage. I have Bitter melon / Balsam melon/ wild melon growing. It is class 2 most invasive. I also have Air potato plant growing spreading from trees. It is also a top class invasive and a 3rd which I don't know the name yet. So, I have class 1 and 2 most invasive plants growing according to Dept of Agriculture of Fl. I am currently working on vertical now and all this is never ending. This year some seeds grew withing the grass and my gardener mowed my property. The weeds broke in thosands of cuttings and now it is creeping from the yard and choking everything in its path. So, I am back to square 1. Doing my grounds again. It is never ending. I just wanted to let you know. Your place looks really well kept and maintained. You got it well control. Great job !
A fair amount of weeds will help occupy the insects but to many will only help increase the # of bad bugs; still a balance. Your hillside does look Lovely on that beautiful Blue Day!
Beautiful yet very windy...I'm surprised the audio wasn't more affected! And yes, I agree on the idea of balance. It's sometimes difficult to achieve it but that's part of the game in organic gardening :)
Wow you are almost up to 100k subscribers!!! Great job!! You have really great videos. Your information comes across easy to understand and you have great ideas to share.
Another tip is to grow more plants and reduce the spare ground where weeds can colonise. Especially on my allotment now I try to always have something growing. No bare earth, otherwise cover it with plastic if you must.
The bane of my plot is nut sedge! Doesn’t matter if you dry the nutlets out before you dispose of them (and our full sun is scorching, in the middle of the day,) even a nutlet that is black and shriveled will grow again if it gets back into soil. And you have to dig every last one out when removing the plant and roots, going through the heavy clay soil to find all of them is a never-ending job!
Hello, As a first-time viewer, I found your tips to be quite helpful; especially ,regarding utilizing mulch in garden beds and on pathways. The bane of of my vegetable garden is lots and lots of roots from large trees (part sun)!! Thanks a lot 😉!! Take care...Miss Marva
I am having to constantly pull up sycamores too that blow into my garden from trees beyond my fence. I love most trees but I haven't got space for all these to grow in my kitchen garden. I love your allotment and your garden...they are beautiful.
You can also use a garden torch to burn off weeds. The heat kills them quickly snd easily. Get it on Amazon. I use a thin one with a 14.4 oz bottle of gas.
Hi Tanya! Great points. Just on the doc, apparently you can strip it's seeds at bake them. Then ground they to a powder that it's a nice addition to bread or pancakes. Just saw it today in a you tube video.
I spotted that in a recipe recently too. You first bake the seeds, then grind them into a type of flour to use in making cake or brownies, etc. Not tried it yet, but sounds interesting
a couple years ago I stopped weeding and decided to live with 'em. Now, I only grow culinary herbs and a couple citrus trees, and they seem to be doing well. Is that because they are technically weeds too ? Do you weed around herbs as well? Thanks for the video.
It depends on the herb -- some like rosemary can tend themselves. Others like thyme sometimes have dandelions or other wild plants that try to grow through them. Then there's the crocosmia in my planter bed at home. They're a type of flowering plant that was put there deliberately by the previous owner and they're tough to erradicate. I'm forever pulling them out so consider them one of the home garden weeds. In my book, a weed is any plant that peristently outstays its welcome!
Here in Colorado, USA, we also have bind weeds. I fight them daily. What are the best methods for staying ahead of them? I pull them as soon as I see them, but they hide sometimes and I don't see them until they shoot out the top of a plant. Also, the roots just regrow after pulling because they are so deep. Any suggestions for controlling them beyond just yanking them out?
Bindweed is one of the toughest weeds to get under control. It's one that will have you digging it out and/or covering for years if you don't use a herbicide. If you wanted to try removing them organically, try to dig as many of the brittle white roots out as possible. They can form a web-like network just under the soil and every little piece can sprout a new plant. Then cover the soil with black polythene plastic sheeting or heavy duty landscaping fabric and leave for two or more years. During that time, you can cut through the membrane and plant into the holes but bindweed may grow through too.
@@Lovelygreens Part of the problem with bindweed is that the roots can go down 16 feet or more and breaking them only creates more. Smothering them with dark plastic is the best way to eliminate some of them. We use a natural herbicide made with Dawn dish soap, vinegar and salt or Epsom salts, which I'm sure you can find a recipe for online. Good luck with the battle of the bindweed!
Birds will eat 99%of dock seeds over the winter, the leaves can be used as mulch and/or they are useful food source for sone UK caterpillars. Groundsel gets taken out by cinnabar moth larvae. "Weeds" can be ground cover over the winter like Speedwell, cleavers...
In nature, plants create a balance without human interference. However, our gardens are not nature -- they're human-made plantings that needs management to exist. The level of management is up to the gardener and what the end goals are. Also, if you let dock seed in your garden, it will spread everywhere. Birds do not eat it all.
Can you tell David Ashford to open the border tomorrow at the Ramsey townhall meeting. I would realy like to be able to get back to my beloved island before being stuck in Europe forever. Good work on the garden by the way 👍
Jonne, if you're a resident you can apply to come back. I'm with the camp that supports keeping our borders closed to non-residents though. We live in a bubble of normalcy here (no masks, no social distancing) and I'd like to see it stay that way.
I would like to know what you do after that first year of fresh wood chips start to turn to compost in your walk ways. Do you remove it and start again or simply add another two inches?
I enjoy your videos, I have been watching them for a while now. Can I ask about wood chis please? I have done all my paths with them and mulched my bed too but peiople keep warning me about slugs. Have you found your slug population has increased a lot?
I like my weeds We were ignorant of these plants benefits and edibility. Ignorance is not a bad word it just means you don't know. Unfortunately it was knowledge lost to us through the move into cities and belief that we should just be able to go to the store and purchase. What a crime has been committed against our generation
Ground wasps can’t live in mulched areas; many people think this is good. It’s not. Ground wasps cull garden pests. Basically, you gotta pick your ecosystem battles wisely.
I collected hay bales after Halloween from places that used them as a fall decoration. They made fantastic row cover as I broke off 4-5" sections and laid them very close together down my paths so no sun got through. I have spent less than 1 hour since March, pulling weeds in my path and in my garden which is grown in composted mulch. So easy. Wish I had as easy a system for insects, also!
Excellent Mary, that's the kind of gardening that makes growing a harvest more achievable. For insects, you might want to consider fleece or fine mesh row covers (depending on season).
I am still fighting with weeds here and did a few (5) years research intensively.
Rain +sun=weeds.
And we get tons of rain and so hot here in Fl.
I did soil solarization. It works but I also did cover crops. It works better. So, now I know it is just matter of time. I still mulch .
Now, I have invasive vines. This is extremely hard to manage. I have Bitter melon / Balsam melon/ wild melon growing. It is class 2 most invasive. I also have Air potato plant growing spreading from trees. It is also a top class invasive and a 3rd which I don't know the name yet. So, I have class 1 and 2 most invasive plants growing according to Dept of Agriculture of Fl. I am currently working on vertical now and all this is never ending.
This year some seeds grew withing the grass and my gardener mowed my property. The weeds broke in thosands of cuttings and now it is creeping from the yard and choking everything in its path. So, I am back to square 1. Doing my grounds again. It is never ending.
I just wanted to let you know. Your place looks really well kept and maintained. You got it well control. Great job !
A fair amount of weeds will help occupy the insects but to many will only help increase the # of bad bugs; still a balance. Your hillside does look Lovely on that beautiful Blue Day!
Beautiful yet very windy...I'm surprised the audio wasn't more affected! And yes, I agree on the idea of balance. It's sometimes difficult to achieve it but that's part of the game in organic gardening :)
I put landscape fabric under the mulch helps to prolong the weed free pathways.
Wow you are almost up to 100k subscribers!!! Great job!! You have really great videos. Your information comes across easy to understand and you have great ideas to share.
Thanks and yes, pretty close now! I'll need to start preparing for a 100K celebration video :)
Lovely Greens I’m sure you’ll need one rather soon. You are growing quickly these days
Another tip is to grow more plants and reduce the spare ground where weeds can colonise. Especially on my allotment now I try to always have something growing. No bare earth, otherwise cover it with plastic if you must.
The bane of my plot is nut sedge! Doesn’t matter if you dry the nutlets out before you dispose of them (and our full sun is scorching, in the middle of the day,) even a nutlet that is black and shriveled will grow again if it gets back into soil. And you have to dig every last one out when removing the plant and roots, going through the heavy clay soil to find all of them is a never-ending job!
Hello,
As a first-time viewer, I found your tips to be quite helpful; especially ,regarding utilizing mulch in garden beds and on pathways. The bane of of my vegetable garden is lots and lots of roots from large trees (part sun)!! Thanks a lot 😉!!
Take care...Miss Marva
a most enjoyable video
Thank you enjoyed the video. I will have to mulch more often.
I am having to constantly pull up sycamores too that blow into my garden from trees beyond my fence. I love most trees but I haven't got space for all these to grow in my kitchen garden. I love your allotment and your garden...they are beautiful.
The benefit of weed is I’ll have plenty of green for my compost pile. Nonetheless your approach is justified too.
Thank you for sharing your garden tips 🌸🌼🌻🌺
You can also use a garden torch to burn off weeds. The heat kills them quickly snd easily. Get it on Amazon. I use a thin one with a 14.4 oz bottle of gas.
Wow que bonito tu huerta y jardín😍😇❤ te miro desde Bolivia 👋😉
Hi Tanya! Great points. Just on the doc, apparently you can strip it's seeds at bake them. Then ground they to a powder that it's a nice addition to bread or pancakes. Just saw it today in a you tube video.
I spotted that in a recipe recently too. You first bake the seeds, then grind them into a type of flour to use in making cake or brownies, etc. Not tried it yet, but sounds interesting
Love your vids! I garden yearly in NE- CT.
I have a sycamore tree at the end of my garden and I too have to pull up tones of seedlings each spring!
Annoying isn't it? 😂
Ok
Thank you for sharing, I enjoy your videos.
a couple years ago I stopped weeding and decided to live with 'em. Now, I only grow culinary herbs and a couple citrus trees, and they seem to be doing well. Is that because they are technically weeds too ? Do you weed around herbs as well? Thanks for the video.
It depends on the herb -- some like rosemary can tend themselves. Others like thyme sometimes have dandelions or other wild plants that try to grow through them. Then there's the crocosmia in my planter bed at home. They're a type of flowering plant that was put there deliberately by the previous owner and they're tough to erradicate. I'm forever pulling them out so consider them one of the home garden weeds. In my book, a weed is any plant that peristently outstays its welcome!
@@Lovelygreens " A weed is any plant that persistently outstays its welcome." I love it!
Very useful video uploaded dear friend thanks 🤗👌🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Happy gardening dear 🤗🙏🏿
We have 18 huge Sycamore trees to cope with. Love tge leave for compost, but not getting them up 1st
Here in Colorado, USA, we also have bind weeds. I fight them daily. What are the best methods for staying ahead of them? I pull them as soon as I see them, but they hide sometimes and I don't see them until they shoot out the top of a plant. Also, the roots just regrow after pulling because they are so deep. Any suggestions for controlling them beyond just yanking them out?
Bindweed is one of the toughest weeds to get under control. It's one that will have you digging it out and/or covering for years if you don't use a herbicide. If you wanted to try removing them organically, try to dig as many of the brittle white roots out as possible. They can form a web-like network just under the soil and every little piece can sprout a new plant. Then cover the soil with black polythene plastic sheeting or heavy duty landscaping fabric and leave for two or more years. During that time, you can cut through the membrane and plant into the holes but bindweed may grow through too.
@@Lovelygreens Part of the problem with bindweed is that the roots can go down 16 feet or more and breaking them only creates more. Smothering them with dark plastic is the best way to eliminate some of them. We use a natural herbicide made with Dawn dish soap, vinegar and salt or Epsom salts, which I'm sure you can find a recipe for online. Good luck with the battle of the bindweed!
Birds will eat 99%of dock seeds over the winter, the leaves can be used as mulch and/or they are useful food source for sone UK caterpillars. Groundsel gets taken out by cinnabar moth larvae. "Weeds" can be ground cover over the winter like Speedwell, cleavers...
In nature, plants create a balance without human interference. However, our gardens are not nature -- they're human-made plantings that needs management to exist. The level of management is up to the gardener and what the end goals are. Also, if you let dock seed in your garden, it will spread everywhere. Birds do not eat it all.
Can you tell David Ashford to open the border tomorrow at the Ramsey townhall meeting. I would realy like to be able to get back to my beloved island before being stuck in Europe forever. Good work on the garden by the way 👍
Jonne, if you're a resident you can apply to come back. I'm with the camp that supports keeping our borders closed to non-residents though. We live in a bubble of normalcy here (no masks, no social distancing) and I'd like to see it stay that way.
@@LovelygreensWel that's a bit harsh, but okay I will tell the children.
I would like to know what you do after that first year of fresh wood chips start to turn to compost in your walk ways. Do you remove it and start again or simply add another two inches?
I enjoy your videos, I have been watching them for a while now. Can I ask about wood chis please? I have done all my paths with them and mulched my bed too but peiople keep warning me about slugs. Have you found your slug population has increased a lot?
I like my weeds
We were ignorant of these plants benefits and edibility. Ignorance is not a bad word it just means you don't know. Unfortunately it was knowledge lost to us through the move into cities and belief that we should just be able to go to the store and purchase. What a crime has been committed against our generation
The ' groundsel' is hawkweed
The hawkweed I've always known is orange, but you're right, this is hawkweed too :)
Once the woodchip paths have decomposed can you then use it as mulch on the garden? Thanks.
Absolutely! It makes a really great mulch and composted/eroded woodchip is what makes the back to Eden gardening method so successful.
@@Lovelygreens That's great! Thank you :-)
The no-dig method
Dock and bind weed grow in Cheyenne, WY to and is a pest.
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Ground wasps can’t live in mulched areas; many people think this is good. It’s not. Ground wasps cull garden pests. Basically, you gotta pick your ecosystem battles wisely.
All of the area surrounding a garden isn't mulched. Plenty of space for ground wasps to live there.
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Are there snakes on the island?
We're like Ireland in that there are no wild snakes
a weed is just a plant in the wrong place
They are not weeds! They are plants that identify as flowers! LOL