STRATEGIES FOR WEED CONTROL IN THE GARDEN

[@faithbooks7906]

Your channel is a treasure trove of wisdom and great practices! Thank you for sharing such great advice.

[@joeh4295]

No till is a great idea if you don't have a heavy clay based soil. We have to till or the soil is rock hard.

[@lookingupandwaiting7262]

Totally agree! Here in the red clay of the south it rains, the sun comes out, bakes the ground into bricks!

[@NS-pf2zc]

I actually did an experiment with our heavy red clay. I double dug (basically tilling) one bed and then mulched. The next bed I just covered with cardboard, compost and mulched. I planted carrots in both. Wouldn't you know the bed I "tilled" was impossible to pull the carrots from and the one I didnt till the carrots came right up.

[@joeh4295]

My daughter works at a pig farm. She brought home the piglet mats they use in the winter. They are made from compressed corn millings and make fantastic, natural mulch. Weeds are controlled and the strawberries never looked so good. I'm doing the 4th picking right now.

[@RoseThistleArtworks]

Did you see their last video about using cardboard to make a quick garden? That softens the ground underneath and feeds it.

[@joeh4295]

@@RoseThistleArtworks not had very good luck with cardboard especially having chickens, turkeys & peacocks

[@holliebillecisaturdaymorni1606]

How do you amend your soil with different nutrients in a no-till or permaculture garden. Thank you!

[@MagdaRantanplan]

My father always said: The best Weed control i got are my kids. Even now i drive to my parents place about 1-2 times a week to do garden work and take care of weeds, dad trained me well. And i like it.

[@maryjane-vx4dd]

Please address field bind weed.

[@florencekirk9021]

Thank you for all the great information you and Carolyn share with us. Your channel is my go to for information about gardening and homesteading. Much love to you and your family from Utah.

[@amystine7167]

Any weed advice for crab grass. It has taken over and grows insanely fast

[@snoovb5584]

What are you using for mulch?

[@snoovb5584]

What are you using for mulch?

[@saucywench9122]

Thank you for the discussion on weeds. So often people fuss about having this or that weed problem here and there making me want to flick them in the forehead.

[@maryjane-vx4dd]

Obviously you don't have field bind weed. Roots are over 50 foot long, won't die if pulled and will strangle your garden. My nephew did get a state grant to use bugs to control weeds and he found a weavel that will kill it. It takes about 3 years for the weavel to get to get to critical mass and kill it. Unfortunately, where I live weavel won't over winter because it gets to cold and kills the weavel. Too expensive to keep applying weavel yearly and never gets to critical mass. Don't know what to do other than chemicals in late fall which won't kill it but slows it down. Any suggestion on getting rid of this weed and Japanese knot weed would be much appreciated.

[@vernajoy441]

What kind of mulch do you use

[@surrenderbend6828]

🇺🇸👨‍🌾☀️Chat away we are here, there’s a great app called “Picture this”. You take a pic of the plant and it tells you all about it. I have so many weeds that are medicinal ie. Burdock, Common True Heal, Plantain(great for bee stings) and so many more🌞of course dandelions , haha you are talking about it now .

[@amelia-ireneinpdx2613]

You should also address invassive species, ivy, nightshades, morning glory, blackberries & several others that just need to touch soil to "replant" themselves from a leaf, a piece of stem, etc... My yard is getting them from the neighbors' yards & spend more time fighting them than doing what I want in my yard... Just a thought.

[@calliefournier4545]

Happy Fathers Day! We have this horrible weed called bind weed that has a huge taproot. It’s impossible to pull it out even when it’s little. It’s a vining plant and stays low to the ground until it finds something to climb and spreads something terrible. Any ideas on controlling something like that? I’ve dug it out of my kids sandbox before and a tiny new plant at the surface had a foot long taproot already! We didn’t plant half of our garden area this year because it was so infected last year. We are trying to just get that crap under control by cutting them off at the surface as soon as we see them. Any other thoughts?

[@dillydilly7693]

I want to build up my soil by mulching but I flood irrigate. My rows aren't very high so I don't have to flood as long to get the water to the plants. Do you have any tips on how I can still mulch? Thanks. Also, great video, very informative!

[@JaniceCrowell]

I’ve never seen purslane grow wild, and I have trouble finding it in garden centers but it is one of my favorite flowers. I thought that even before I realized it was edible and so delicious and before I even knew it was a weed. It is beautiful in pots and very drought tolerant. Unfortunately, as I found out in my 5 years in TX, deer LOVE it so I have to think carefully about where to plant it. I once had a 4x8 foot raised bed of purslane and my 3 year old granddaughter was living with me temporarily. I showed her it was edible and taught her this was the only plant she was allowed to pick and eat. By the end of the summer, my bed was decimated, and my extremely picky eater granddaughter had tons of extremely nutritious food in her body!!! I was a happy “MiMi!”

[@judybaugus2909]

I have 2 questions. One is I saw black ground cover on your garden tour. What kind did you use and how long do you think it will last? The second is both you and Carolyn have so many skills where fo you acquire them all from?

[@hickoryhillinthebigwoods-r759]

I let our edibles go. This year, the purslane and the lambs quarter took over the tomato garden. Amaranth is a huge problem for us as is perilla. Great advice! Thanks.

[@brightstarr57]

Great video! Very informative! Thanks! 😊🌿🍀🌱

[@christinarulien645]

Can you tell me what you use for mulch, I know it’s some kind of wood chips but it looks very fine. what kind of wood chips are good and if you can’t produce them yourself what should we look for? Is there wood that would not be good to use?

[@kellypalazzi7467]

Can you do a video on how you handle garden pests, bugs, critters?

[@circledoublethomestead1362]

ABOUT YOUR NO TILLING AND USING A BCS TRACTOR: SO IF YOU DON'T TILL, THEN IS IT WORTH THE COST OF THE BSC TRACTOR AFTER YOU HAVE YOUR GARDEN IN OR DO YOU HAVE ATTACHMENTS TO THE TRACTOR SO YOU USE IT MORE THAN JUST TILLING? IF SO, WHICH ATTACHMENTS?

[@LifeGoesNorth]

Thanks Josh!

[@workinonit9562]

Will you do a video on how you set up your high tunnel and got all that plastic to stay on it? Thanks for all the information you and Carolyn provide.

[@thebusinessof_club]

Interesting video

[@denisepallay6774]

Very helpful...thank you!

[@TheRealAlexSpitzer]

Happy Father’s Day Josh!!

[@getitright5863]

The bugs are out to see early in the morning 😀

[@marshhomestead4963]

Thanks for the great information. I love your garden tunnels. Those panels look longer than the ones we get here. How long are those?

[@mommabear2many]

Not them they look like 16ft cattle panels.

[@ohske]

👍👍👍👌☺️

[@raylingomen2562]

We have elm trees that broadcast their seeds like nobody's business! They seem to be able to grow in anything! And even with a couple inches of woodchips I still pull out elm tree seedlings by the handful! Lamb's quarters is also quite invasive for us, actually our first year gardening that was pretty much the only thing we could get to grow (well and purslane and common mallow) so that's what we ate! We have irrigation water which is known for throwing weed seeds, and even with mulching we still end up with lots of weeds growing, any idea why?

[@andreamortimer2610]

I have the same problem but add in redbud seedpots and maple tree helicopters, grrr. What helped me this last fall was covering up my garden beds with floating row covers. All the seeds were accumulating in the walkways which I had lined with cardboard which made it a lot easier to just rake or sweep them up.

[@raylingomen2562]

@@andreamortimer2610 that's a great solution! I'll look to see how we can incorporate something similar. Do you keep the row covers up all year or just when you know the trees are dropping their seeds?

[@andreamortimer2610]

@@raylingomen2562 Only during the time the trees are dropping their seeds; other than that I use the covers for unexpected light frost days.

[@alanchilds1456]

There are ants in my tomatoes plants how do I get rid of them naturally

[@M240D]

Tell your uncles to take them home 😊

[@alanchilds1456]

@@M240D lol sorry ants auto correct got me

[@andreamortimer2610]

Try cinnamon

[@alanchilds1456]

@@andreamortimer2610 thanks I will

[@andreamortimer2610]

@@alanchilds1456 You are welcome and good luck! They also don't like lavender, thyme, rosemary, marjoram, cloves, and tea tree oil. If you soak cotton balls with any of those essential oils and place them around their nests (hill openings), they are very likely to move their colony to a different spot. I don't like killing them as they serve important purposes within nature. However, if they refuse to move you can keep on flooding their nests or, as a last resort, kill them with baking powder (make sure it contains baking soda) mixed with sugar or apply DE.