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Fire is a great way to help restore soil. Some plants, as you found, come back stronger. The best way I have found to get rid of weeds without herbicide is to
by hosh 3y ago
Fire is a great way to help restore soil. Some plants, as you found, come back stronger.
The best way I have found to get rid of weeds without herbicide is to make sure something else is growing on there.
Some weeds are pioneer plants. They come in on disturbed, and desolate soil. As they grow and thrive, they change the soil conditions so that other plants can grow there.
These plants are tenacious, but ironically, changes things so that they are out-competed by other plants. If you fight them, they dig in and get stronger. If you help them fulfill their ecological function, then they help make way for something else.
- jaggederest 3y agoI keep trying to explain this to my father, who insists that mowing his entire noxious-weed-covered property is the only way to deal with them. Unfortunately, that's the only sure-fire way to keep them sticking around - scalp the soil bare 5x a year.