3 ms·
I'm curious if others who garden have really bad weed problems that can't be solved with mulch & putting stuff down between rows? I find cardboard or brown pac
by mattferderer 7y ago
I'm curious if others who garden have really bad weed problems that can't be solved with mulch & putting stuff down between rows?
I find cardboard or brown packaging paper between rows, & layering the whole garden with grass & straw reduces all but a few random weeds.
I don't understand the value of weeding robots outside large agriculture.
- jedberg 7y agoThat method only works for about one season, and then you have to redo it all. I guess if you like gardening redoing the cardboard isn't so bad, but I'd rather focus on the plants and not the cardboard.
- mdellavo 7y agoyou have to redo the garden every season anyway
- jefflombardjr 7y agoI don't redo everything every season! I like to garden smart, not hard. Check out permaculture. Last year, I put down cardboard and mulched - planting strawberries directly in the mulch and piercing through the cardboard. Fast forward a year, now that the cardboard is pretty composted, the strawberries were established last year had root systems in place, broke through the cardboard, and beat most of the weeds. The weeds can't thrive because the strawberries are taking up all the sun.
- mattferderer 7y agoSounds like you have a similar effective way for handling weeds. My main point was that I don't think most gardeners have an issue with weeds in their garden. Side note, using large pieces of cardboard or packaging paper goes fairly quick. I wouldn't consider it hard or time consuming.