Easy Weeding - How to Get Rid of Weeds in Your Vegetable Garden

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Weeding can take up the majority of your time in the garden. However, it is possible to reduce the time spent weeding AND increase the amount you harvest from your vegetable garden. This video demonstrates simple weeding techniques which can help you to rid your garden of weeds and stop them from removing vital nutrients from the soil. We explain which methods work best for different types of weeds, as well as how to use mulches and weed barriers for future protection. Another simple way to increase your harvest is to follow the planting advice in our Garden Planner which is available from several major websites and seed suppliers: http://www.GrowVeg.com http://gardenplanner.motherearthnews.com http://gardenplanner.almanac.com and many more... Please subscribe to our channel if you'd like to be notified of new videos in the series, or like the video and add a comment to give us feedback. Thanks!

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Heres an idea, go down and buy your self a gallon of gasoline and pure it all over your weeds, that will make sure those bastards NEVER come back

You want easy? Cover the soil around your crops with brown cardboard, newspaper, or other non-glossy paper with little or no ink or that has vegetable based ink then cover that with straw or compost. Few if any weeds will grow through hence very little weeding necessary plus you'll save on water and have happy worms and soil. I miss the look of moist brown dirt but the benefits far outweigh that little issue.

Vinegar will kill weeds !

after dis u smoek weed evryday

this has helped me a lot

Lovely, thanks for taking the time to share your valuable knowledge and experience with us 😀

I have loads of groundelder in my garden is there a quick way to get rid of them? Michelle.

Awesome thanks

The presence of weeds in the garden are quite difficult to rid off. As it is necessary to eradicate, I guess these tips are useful enough to solve from encountering problems regarding weeds. Nice information!

I've found that slugs LOVE bread. It's easy to collect them in the late evening or earlier on cooler/cloudier days. It's cheaper than beer, and the birds love the bread, too! (But watch out for the cat lurking :) )

Hi. I see baby buttercups in your video. Just hoeing them and leaving them doesn't work in damp climates. They just keep growing, extending their roots back into the soil, even though the whole plant has been pulled on top of the soil. Sorry, the only way to be rid of these tenaceous guys is to take the effort to pull them all the way up - it's tedious, but saves hours later in the season. Put on some good music, and "enjoy".

Interesting. We uploaded a video showing how to remove bindweed. Regular weeding is essential maintenance for the garden. Preventing weeds from going to seed is important. Mulch can limit sun and water getting to weed seeds.

Thanks for your comment Casey. It's rare to be able to eliminate weeds by hot composting in situ - usually a cubic metre of material is required for compost to heat up enough to kill annual weed seeds (see our video on composting for details). It's still worthwhile for feeding the soil and a good hotbed compost trench can sometimes help with getting earlier crops but you'll probably still need to weed by hand.

This doesn't cover a couple that I have tried. Let me know if these have been successful for you guys, or if I just got lucky: 1. Hot compost over winter. Putting a layer of 1-2" of fresh chicken manure on the bed in the late fall to burn off any seeds and to fertilize the bed. The areas of beds I have done this with have been easier to weed this year; however I have gotten some very virulent weeds throughout the areas. I am wondering if, like tomatoes, there are weed seeds that survive.

thanks for the video. But I don;t see any easy way here, just common ways to remove weeds