🌾 How to Get Rid of Weeds ~ Weed Prevention ~ Y Garden 🌾

[@SimplyGarden]

I love the bloopers at the end.🙂

[@klk12399]

Would love to see a video on ground covers!

[@DawnRenae22]

Love the bloopers... but...Don’t over think words. We just love hearing from you! Let it flow and then Do a weekly recap video to correct or add to what’s been shared. When do we get to meet the hubs! Keep going with the channel please!?! It’s valuable to the gardening community. I need your weeding tools, several wonky joint issues make me not want to kneel to weed. I did the no dig method last year because of you. It worked beautifully! Thank you

[@colsen4616]

It’s funny to hear you talking about weeds with your beautiful ivy behind you. It’s an invasive species in the Pacific Northwest, and we’ve been working on eradicating it in the yard of the house we moved into a year ago. Mostly it’s just contained in its huge bed and kept off of trees and the fence, but one corner is clear. What a job! Doesn’t help that there is also Himalayan blackberry mixed in that is also invasive. A groundcover video would be great!

[@gardeningjunkie2267]

For a really weedy section, some empty pizza or other cardboard boxes, topped with mulch works great. I also use tenacity herbicide in sections that are just ornamental which works amazing without killing your grass. However, my typical way of weeding is to completely dig out all the way to the base. Weeders generally leave too much behind so it'll just come back. I weed the same way I clean my house, consistently but only a little every time I go in and out of a room so it never gets overwhelming.

[@barbbirdyard]

I am so glad you put garden zone six on each and every video on KZbin. Many of these gardening videos on KZbin don’t tell us their growing zone.

[@wen8991]

I absolutely love your videos! Your advise is always on point for me in managing my garden. I love how you apply balance to your gardening philosophy. Regardless of what type of garden style your audience favors, your videos are full of tips for everyone. My goal is to have a contemporary Potager designed front and back yard using natural practices... for me this means leaving leaves and branch/spring cuttings clippings on the ground to breakdown for critters / soil food web, etc. and mulching on top. I find mulching on top of chopped up yard waste (composting in-place) saves me so much work 😊 Thanks again for sharing your wisdom and journey!

[@rebeccalane5610]

I'd love a video on ground covers😍

[@vzwick1]

The bloopers are the best! Love you!!

[@emptynestgardens9057]

Oh my goodness where have you been all my life!!!! I swear I go through phases of wanting to and not wanting to garden because I just can't seem to control weeds!! I watched a video of your no dig beds which then lead me to this one and now you are my virtual gardening bff! 😁😉 I feel like I'm ready to tackle this again. Thank you !!

[@debbierodriguez5833]

I am so glad I found you I have learned so much from you I only have a few months knowing of your KZbin channel your garden is gorgeous I love your flowers I live in Dallas Texas I'm disabled this is my second year of gardening not doing too good in the garden had two back surgeries that went wrong left me with my whole right side with severe nerve damage so every little bit of information that you give really helps thank you so much.

[@alexgeoffroy5358]

I pull garlic grass after it rains and I can normally get the bulbs out by pulling

[@carole-f8x]

Good morning Yuliya, I was just weeding yesterday the squatting way with a shovel...I love your way and your tools! We have a lot of onion grass everywhere ...what I do is wait for a lot of rain and afterward I go out and give a big yank from the bottom of the leaves and the whole thing with bulbs comes out. But I like your tool and think it is more thorough. Thank you for your videos, besides learning a lot it makes me feel better . You're very calming. Have a great day. Carol from Union.

[@marypearson1155]

Yes, Please do a video on ground covers and different growing conditions.

[@lindabergman932]

I love my ProPlugger 😃 Thank you for sharing it. Mine came in a few days and it’s a sturdy and excellent tool!

[@jeangardensinIllinois]

Great information! I just ordered the plug tool for weeding, planting, and transplanting grass plugs. I recently had knee replacement surgery so I am always looking for ways to make gardening easier. I would recommend to your subscribers a book: The Lifelong Gardener by Toni Gattone. So happy to be on the garden again!

[@SMElder-od5cl]

I have arthritis in my fingers and pulling weeds hurts. I have gotten rid of some plants like coloclinum; it is easy to pull, but painful for me so I sadly eliminated it.

[@nurturingnature8641]

I’m late to this party as I’ve just discovered your channel 2 days ago but my goodness you are quickly becoming one of my favs! I’m binge watching Y videos and learning so much. You have such sensible advice, you ‘teach’ as you share and you have such a pleasing voice and personality that it makes watching your videos that much better. Thank you so much for explaining the how(s) and the why(s). I am grateful for your time and effort. Blessings!

[@ydoyougarden]

Thank you! You made my day 😊🙏

[@HowsItGrowing]

Great one! I have very similar weeds. And can I tell you, I got that fiskars weeder a few years ago and I forgot. 😱 I just found it in the back of my shed. Oh my gosh. It will help me with my horrible thistle. Thank you!

[@BarriosGroupie]

I've found sticking with a routine helps enormously as in spending half an hour over the weekend, especially during summer, pulling out small weeds by hand and putting them in a hand bin: it's very quick and therapeutic once one builds up the habit like doing the laundry. The key is knowing that weeds increase exponentially in size; and the longer you leave it the far worse it will get.

[@lisawalters5482]

What great tools. My husband and I both think pulling weeds is meditative as well, but it kills our backs and shoulders. Also, I shake them...ooops! This video was quite enlightening. Thank you for the tool demonstration and tips for weed prevention/control. We will be getting a couple of those tools! Have a great week. 👏🏻💕👏🏻

[@itsmewende]

You got the flow down pat. Love that plug tool, I need that thing like yesterday, great idea. Also liked the photo of the summer garden, and that hat you were wearing. See the channel is really gaining subscribers, that's so Great, I do enjoy advice from a pro.

[@Lourdes-Ambrosio]

Great video - I just ordered the Pro-Plugger - thanks for the link! Makes shopping for the right tools so much easier! Happy Gardening!

[@jenniferm.5502]

Would love to see an in depth ground cover video for covering large areas, in my case, a slope in full sun. Thank you for all your hard work. Very informative videos.

[@janetleeharrison]

Great idea! Slopes are something I haven't seen anybody cover lately. Hope she does this topic - would love to hear from a landscape designer on what her experiences have been for success with small slopes to severe sloping areas for ground erosion.

[@ileneboudreaux2380]

I have a slope in a shady area that I need ground cover for

[@kknichols8067]

This was ridiculously helpful. Heading to Amazon now :). Thank you, Yuliya!

[@yolandafortune1082]

I incorporated one of your practices yesterday. Raking the mulch away from a weedy area, pulled weeds, placed some sheets of newspaper down, and moved the mulch back. Ta daaaa! Actually, I watched you practice this last year and I newspapered a very large area where grass was growing in one of my perennial gardens. The roots literally webbed throughout the area. I couldn’t pull it out! I layered the newspaper pretty thick. The bed looks great today. Perennials are coming up beautifully. I’ve even tried practicing pruning after watching your video. Love you Yuliya. Also, I hope your parents are well and gardening.

[@martha_aj4386]

Would love a video on ground cover! I hear so many mixed comments about it, but I have a front yard which is sloped and hard to mow. Interested in converting the entire space, but don't want to plant something that will be a problem down the road/become invasive or be harder to care for.

[@anitahadley2871]

Omg, onion grass! I dug out so much this year. It’s never ending!

[@MsJS1122]

Onion weed... yep, its taken over the world's gardens it seems!! ;P Digging it up just breaks up the bulb head... at a gardening workshop we were advised to keep pulling off the leaves on a regular basis and slowly that will starve the bulb head underground. It takes 6-8 months, so not a 'quick fix' but it works. (But I'm definitely going to see if I can find a Pro Plugger of some sort here in Cape Town!)

[@SimplyGarden]

Some great looking tools you have there. I never heard of some of those. Thank you for sharing

[@ydoyougarden]

Love them! Save me so much time and energy 😊

[@PrairiePlantgirl]

I prefer pulling and dead heading weeds even in my lawn. I can always tell when the weed killer companies come through the neighbourhood (even the “safe” ones) I wind up nauseous and sick for at least a day. I have used vinegar and salt solutions on gravel areas on very difficult perennial weeds, but now that we’ve been here for years I am able to keep up with them by hand. Thanks for sharing your methods. That new tool just keeps getting better.

[@dianamandras5436]

I got the Fiskars 4-claw and the pro-plugger. Thank you Yulia, I love both.

[@carnellnutt988]

I love all those tools!

[@dianebarlow1515]

Really enjoy your videos and love your personality. The bloopers after each video make me smile and reminds me that your human.

[@gloriamathews3035]

You truly helpful and delighted to watch with your wit and sense of humor thank you God bless

[@louisetetreault6119]

Thank you for sharing your expertise. The bloopers are funny!

[@barbll000]

Great video. I rely heavily on mulch and it makes it so there's much less weeding to do. Also, I let my perennials grow larger and get crowded so thee's no room for weeds to grow.

[@EM-md1bi]

I love your videos!! So pleasant to listen to and great information from your years of experience. I am going to look into ordering the book. I laughed at the bloopers at the end. 😊

[@karolsandi8272]

Give you so much credit , on making videos .. that’s what’s holding me back on creating my channel 😩😩😩😩😩 thx for the informative weed tools. Happy Gardening 🌸🌼🌷

[@happygardener2921]

Karol Sandi me too!

[@jvcyt298]

I find weeding my garden a very cathartic experience and the weeds make up most of my compost fodder during the summer months, although the more of the property that I turn into planting beds, the more time I need to spend weeding, unfortunately, higher priorities leave me less time for the weeding.

[@keepingheather]

Watching you get the bulbs of the garlic grass out of the ground was so satisfying. I’m currently battling carpetgrass in my own garden (zone6b)

[@paulettewaller9833]

Yulia, I enjoy your video’s, you have such a calming demeanor and I just enjoy listening to you. Keep on making these videos for us. Even pulling weeds is therapeutic for me, although I do hate weeds so I can see that I would enjoy using your tools to make it much easier. You even have cute bloopers😁

[@lorrainecourtney4589]

Wow!!! Love those tools 😊😊😊 Getting to old to be down on my hands and knees 😉

[@TARAdactyl56]

I just found your channel and your videos are so informational! Can't wait to watch more of them.

[@ydoyougarden]

Aww! thank you!!

[@junesmart7352]

Wonderful insight into your techniques! Also, I thought I was the only person who enjoys the meditative aspect of weeding. I sit on an old piece of pilates mat, recycled plastic bag by my side, and dandelion digger for a multi-purpose tool, and scoot along the ground from weed to weed. Of course, now I want a Pro Plugger for weeding!

[@julien3211]

Interesting video. Also been enjoying the bloopers. They make me laugh. :)

[@CilaOnAirX520]

ur background of the vines is absolutely stunning

[@PlantNative]

English Ivy is a wicked invasive here in NJ.

[@CilaOnAirX520]

omgg this is so refreshing to see content on gardening. there's not much out there. i love nature stuff to much!!!!! i love hiking and beaches lol

[@lovelyladygodbless143]

Thanks for sharing love your videos learn a lot of them also love your sweet dog 😀🐶👍

[@francineh.7825]

I've never heard of garlic grass before. Those tools look awesome....maybe I'll put one on my Mother's Day list lol.

[@julieculshaw4031]

what is that wonderful ivy behind you and does it stay green all year round?

[@rebeccazody1278]

Asking for my unaware self---What is the problem with garlic grass? Just proves a weed is in the eye of the beholder. Lol I really enjoyed seeing these tools etc. your videos are wonderfully done.

[@AmericanaGardens]

Just bought the Fiskars weed puller.

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

Thanks for your coverage on tackling garlic grass weeds. They were rampant in the garden I inherited from the previous owner. I live in Maryland, zone 7....The best time to remove them is just after a heavy downpour...you can get the entire plant out that way. Start removing them as early in the season as possible. Cardboard and mulch may slow them down, but will not stop them.

[@ydoyougarden]

Yes! Smothering doesn’t work. I had to manually remove it. 😊

[@dtomlinson734]

Love your videos. Watching you from New Brunswick, Canada where we had a big snow storm a few days ago.

[@valpacheco3590]

Love your channel! You get me motivated! Thanks so much. I bought Cleome seeds for the first time and I’m going to try it out. I live in the NW (Zone 7). I’ll let you know how they grow here.

[@sandraryan7713]

Having a garlic grass problem. Thanks Yulia

[@GardenEvolution]

Love the out takes lol I'm loving that fiskers tool and don't know why I've never seen that before!

[@ydoyougarden]

Life changer! I think you will love it 😊

[@GardenEvolution]

@@ydoyougarden off to source one

[@angiezavacky4347]

Thanks so much for the pro plugger enlightenment! My son is plagued with Star of Bethlehem weeds ,(some call them flowers). This tool works great on them!

[@lynbuerkett8537]

Very helpful, definitely getting a couple of those tools!

[@akatija]

More great info Yulia. Thanks. I’ve got the cobra weed puller but I’m going to get the Fiskars and the plug one you have as well. I did the no dig method in a bed last fall but I am getting some weeds now but it’s a lot better than it was.

[@jimskipper1167]

I really liked all the ivy on the house behind you. I hear a lot of negativity about what it does to siding, but I love the way it looks. What is your opinion as someone who has experience with it?

[@vivienarnold7950]

Super. Thanks for info re tools for weeding. Very helpful.

[@alexandriamihalcik9202]

Great video! I'm dealing with onion grass too! Thanks for sharing your advice. I'd love to hear about all kinds of grown over too especially for a full sun area under roses.

[@jiayinli7827]

Hey friend, your garden is very interesting!!^^Enjoyable

[@julieblauvelt1649]

Do you ever worry about the ivy growing over your windows? I love the look on a house but there are lots of mixed information on whether or not it hurts the siding. Curious what your thoughts are. We have a fireplace in the front of our house that I would love to grow ivy on but I am hesitant.

[@jgwood10]

Julie Blauvelt my mom had ivy growing and as she aged it got out of control. It broke basement windows and managed to grow through into the basement. It was a mess. I had to hire someone to get rid of it but it still came back.

[@ip4265]

Jane Woodhouse oh, wow, that bad? Where are you located? This ivy Yuliya has was probably left behind by the previous owners, so must be pretty old.

[@janicesisson4509]

What kind of ivy is behind you at the beginning of the video? Is it growing on your house? If so, doesn’t it damage your exterior? However it looks beautiful

[@christinepops5100]

I have lots of violets and a few Queen Anne lace which I love in my garden, I hand pull loads of creeping charlie and others right after or sometimes during a gentle rain. I also find it meditative and do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.😊

[@christinepops5100]

I also use lots of cardboard covered with mulch to suppress weeds when I start a new garden bed, works great!

[@ydoyougarden]

I find it meditative too. If you have a LOT of creeping Charlie you can try Tenacity (main ingredient Australian bottlebrush plant). I heard it works great. 😊

[@christinepops5100]

Thanks for the suggestion, I've never heard of this but will look for it now 😊

[@Diane56ful]

I need to get me some new tools! Thank you! I’m subscribed now and have some catching up to do!

[@maryannditullio2581]

Hi. I have a big problem. My flower garden is taken over by weeds. I would like to cut off the weeds leaving the roots in the ground . Cover the ground with cardboard. I can work around the plants that are there. I do have plants that are perennial and bulbs that will come up later. I have no idea where they all are. If I cover over them with cardboard will they be able to suffice? Would newspaper be better? I can put compost or mulch over the cardboard or paper. What do you suggest? I hope you can help me with this problem. Thanks!

[@PlantNative]

An important mention. When the book was flipped, it had a listing for Common Milkweed. I’d like to remind us all that this plant, which has vanilla scented flowers, is the ONLY plant in the work that our critically-endangered Monarch Butterfly will lay their eggs on. Please be mindful that Violets host Fritalliary Butterflies. Plantains host Common Buckeye butterflies, which aren’t so common. I could go on...but please, do your homework before we decimate our pollinator pollination. Roundup is a carcinogen. Thank you.

[@peggyjk]

I like to use cardboard instead of newspaper, it doesn’t blow around the yard. My garden is planted very close as well you only see the weeds when they get 3 feet tall. 😏😊😀

[@ronaldjohnson3183]

What is that lovely tree with twisted branches in the video segement where you are spreading mulch?

[@happygardener2921]

Thanks for the blooper rolls at the end of your videos 🥰😆

[@emmathienes8588]

I use plant snap to identify plants. You should try it! BTW love the outakes.

[@mamabear9509]

Thanks for this video, timely as usual. Nice to see tools that you use yourself. New gardener, zone 9a and I need advice please. Yuli, can you make a video on garden pests? I kept noticing huge holes/tunnels the size of my index finger on top of the soil in my containers. I learned that my donut peach tree was infested with grubs. My husband removed the tree as well as a total of 7 grubs. After witnessing THAT, I purchased beneficial nematodes and added to every single potted fruit tree I own. Just wondering how would you have handled this? Thanks in advance.

[@FriedaBabbley]

This was so helpful! Do you deal with violas or violets?

[@TheImpatientGardener]

Yulia, tell me about garlic grass. What is it? Looks similar to chives and I’m certain it’s something in the allium family, but this isn’t allium schoenoprasum, is it?

[@ydoyougarden]

This is Allium vineale. So noxious, edible but so noxious. I think a patch got away from me last summer and seeded so much. I am on it now tho 💀☠️

[@karie3]

I have a ton of it in several flower beds and have been trying to get rid of it for years. I have always called it chives.

[@juliabrown7302]

Could you explain how you keep weeds out of gravel pathways? Love your videos!

[@ydoyougarden]

Thank you Julia! the gravel paths need to be clean of debris in order to be weed free. Leafblowing or raking will do. If you start to have real bad weeds you can spray Tenacity. It's is a natural and effective herbicide, expensive though.

[@juliabrown7302]

@@ydoyougarden Thanks! I live in France so might have to find an alternative:-)

[@barbaramesloh7739]

How do you get grass out of the garden?

[@twinkle2679]

Hello! I'm hoping that you, or one of your subscribers can help me. I have a very bad problem with gooseneck loosestrife which has overrun 80% of my perennial bed, and has killed many beloved plants. I have dug up the garden 3 times trying to get rid of it, and last year, in desperation, I sprayed with roundup. The loosestrife continues to return, I'm very upset, and would appreciate any suggestions.

[@jj.fancythat6638]

Great information! Including outtake! 🦦⚡️😅

[@ip4265]

Great video, Yuliya! You are sooo funny! I am wondering about the ivy in the background, does it grow against your house? Does it cause any damage to the siding ( I am assuming you have wood, not vinyl) or window frames? And what do you do when it is time to paint the house? I absolutely love the look but have concerns.

[@terryterry5797]

Hi Yulia! I love your channel! I love the no dig method. We have a lot of weeds in our area. So if I applied the no dig method, it will kill off the existing weeds? I'm just thinking that they will just grow through the mulch layer.

[@bead9609]

Hi Yuliya. As always very resourceful, thanks for your video. I am wandering if those shoes are allbirds wool shoes. They look exactly like mine, but I never attempted to use them in the gardening afraid I would ruin them.

[@eliev7844]

Very informative. Thank you x

[@dianamandras5436]

Do you have any methods on how to get ride of poison ivy for good? It looks like even though I try to remove as much as I can from the vine and roots it comes back stronger and more aggressive.

[@NessaT419]

I have that garlic grass all over one of my beds. I’ve pulled and shoveled to make sure to get the bulbs. But they keep coming back 😫

[@karie3]

I have it all over too and have tried to get rid of it for years. But I call it chives. I didn't realize it's called garlic grass.

[@greenthumbelina7331]

@@karie3 Garlic grass is different than chives, it has a much finer leaf.

[@paulacreed8631]

Ugh, garlic grass. I have some of that. So annoying to get rid of.

[@miac6]

Thanks for the informative video, Yulia. I wonder if you can advise how to get rid of liriope spicata? So far nothing I’ve tried worked, not even the newspaper and mulch method 😭.. Trying to avoid using roundup.

[@monawolfe]

I’ve had a Weed Hound for years which pulls by the roots. It’s a super cool tool. I have garlic grass too and I will be pulling them forever it seems. I want to use Creeping Jenny in one bed which is edged, but worried it will go in the grass?? Also do you treat your lawn & if so how. Great video & love the bloopers.

[@lukerobson4962]

Great advice. Thankyou

[@melepling2742]

Any solution for liverwort? I have a solid mass of it growing around plants in one of my beds.If I try to slice it off the top I end up taking a lot of soil with it.

[@daniellaferraris8578]

I have a weed that is so hard to dig up. They have roots running underneath. No matter how much I get rid id, they come back. They are plain green. Do you know what they can be & how can I permanently get rid of them.I love your videos. Thanks Daniella

[@ydoyougarden]

You can layer with cardboard to rid them of sunlight and mulch heavily. Stay on top of it! thank you for watching!

[@lindacannella7560]

Love your bloopers!😆 can you use that planting tool to remove the dandelions too? I don’t have either tool, so maybe I only need one of them?

[@truebluedaphne9411]

I’m in zone 5 and in sections of flower beds, in the past, I have used thyme as an ornamental ground covering for tulips, daffodils and hyacinths. The bulbs would just grow up through the thyme. Once established, it was pretty and also provided pretty good weed suppression too through the summer. Is there anything else that would be similar to thyme, low growing, quickly spreading and flowers. Now I’m thinking of planting bulbs then vinca or perennial verbena (seeds) planted over the bulbs in the fall. Do you think this combo will work from season-to-season? Will the bulbs be able to push through a ground cover like prunella? I’m looking for low maintenance over planting annuals (some exceptions). Any suggestions?

[@Peppersunlimited]

Great video, I loved it sooo much

[@ronaldasiimwe5423]

interesting video. Am Uganda Africa

[@heathersummers6815]

Awesome video!!

[@SilkBathLuxuries]

Wow you are in NJ ? I’m in NJ I just found your channel..!

[@ydoyougarden]

Yes! I am in Northern Jersey 😊🌝

[@SilkBathLuxuries]

Wow what is the name of that dandelion tool weed remover?

[@ydoyougarden]

That is Fiskars Weeder 😊🌝

[@kathyraidt16]

Thanks for the good tips on weeding. I need to buy the Fiskars. I have a question on "no dig" though. Our small forest has an area near the the edge of the grass where I would like to put cardboard down and cover the small shrubs and weeds. What are your thoughts about using cardboard versus just newspaper? Thanks for your help with this.

[@pansepot1490]

Works much better as weed suppressant. Usually people use paper when they want to plant something in the area because it breaks down quicker.

[@ydoyougarden]

Yes, absolutely! I use newspaper for my beds with plants because according to some research cardboard disrupts gas exchange and damages microorganism, earthworms, etc. But if you want to really smother some plants that's the way to go.