Albert Gillett is an herb expert. For more great information on herb gardens , visit www.herbgardeningclub.com.
Some gardeners take the quick-fix, shotgan approach and blast them with chemicals. In fact, home gardeners spend more than $200 million a year on herbicides. But that’s only part of the cost. Chemical herbicides have been implicated in groundwater pollution, soil degradation, and even serious human health problems. In the end, it’s a bad bargain, because the weeds keep coming back.
But many enlightened gardeners take a more holistic approach. Tey say that a weed is just a plant out of place. And, in fact, one peson’s weed may be another person’s flower or even salad green. While ane gardener struggles to eliminate violets from a lawn, another will cultivate them in the flower bed, and still others may enjoy their foliage and flowers in salads.
That’s not to say that every weed has a good side. Or that we have a weed-free lawn and garden without resorting to dangerous chemicals or spending hours on the back-breaking labor of hoeing or chopping or pulling weeds.
There’s whole slew of natural products that will kill weeds if applied correctly. In fact, you’ll be surprised at the number of potent – but safe and environmetally sound – natural weed killers that are already in your cupboard or medicine cabinet.
There are some homemade weed-killing recipes from organic gardeners around the country. But that’s not all. You can enlist the power of the sun to burn out weeds. All it takes is a little bit of plastic and a little time. Or you can elbow them out with cover crops – and we’ve got a list of some surprising, versatile, and good-looking crops that you can use.
And, of course, there’s mulch. Using mulch meterials do a good job of smothering weeds and building the soil, while looking good all throuth the season.
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