Simple WEED CONTROL for your garden

Tips, Tricks

1. Wood mulch attracts termites.
2. Check out 'Tropic Sun' The Ultimate in Cover Crops.  Reduce weeds while suppressing nematodes while adding huge amounts of nitrogen and organic matter.
3. i use newspaper.  they work great.    
4. I use "Round Up  weed killer. What you do is place a bucket over your tomato 
   ect. plant and spray the weed killer. Round Up works by absorbing into the foliage
   and kills the weeds down to the roots.
   I use it during the beginning of the planting, while the plants are young.   And no
   it dose not hurt anything except the weeds.
   I have used it for years and it sure helps with weed control.
5. R O U N D U P
6. You must have used hay which has lots of weed seeds. Always remember hay is for horses. I've used straw for 7 years with no weeds ever. 
7. I tried straw or hay and it seems I had a lot of grass wanting to spring up.
8. I use straw as mulch with great success. I bought a bale 2 years ago. Just push it to the side while planting the spread around the tiny plants. No weeds every. Cheers Louise
9. Thats a novel idea!
10. For the last two years I`ve used old carpet that was torn out of a house.. Cut a circle about 2 foot round and made a slit to the center with a small hole in the center. This will make the third year using the same carpet. Keeps weed out and always stays damp. Works for me. Nice videos and happy gardening.
11. Yeah I think I may have mentioned in the vid about over doing it. IN my view the cover should just be enough to shade the soil from the sun and block the sun from the soil to limit weed growth. If it were too heavy, I would imagine molds and other issues could start from as you said, never drying out. Thanks for pointing that out.
12. Hey, thanks for the video, I have seen grass used and put on too thick and compacting,,stopping the water and air from circulating,,,what's your take on that? Cheers Marty
13. I wouldn't worry about depleting nitrogen with grass clippings, especially if you're tilling it in at the end of the season. If your soil is seriously nitrogen-deficient to begin with, though, it might not hurt to scatter something with a high N content like blood meal, cottonseed meal, coffee grounds, etc. on top of the clippings before you till. That will help.
14. Don't sweat it, if you are worried just rake it off to the side when you turn your beds.
15. One tip I can give is to learn "when" to plant which item. You will find some do better in the spring and fall and others like tomatoes need hot weather, but we learn as we go along. bonnieplants(dotcom)/how-to-grow/
16. I use grass clippings as well this year after watching a video here on YouTube. However, I just read in a comment that I am not supposed to til it into the garden at the end of the season or it will deplete my nitrogen?? I thought it was a good thing to add organic matter to the soil? I'm now confused. Sorry, I've only been gardening for 2 years. 
17. The wood mulch would worlk, ta the end of the season just rake it out of the way when you toil or turn over your soil, then rake it back out. if not you will have a lot of wood down in your soil. The grass when tilled in will obviously be broken down in a few months when tilled under there the wood mulch takes a longer time. Keep your plants watered and you will get some nice results.
18. I've been using grass clipping for about 3 years now. It works great for me. It should only deplete nitrogen if tilled into soil. If it lays on top and decomposes it will not deplete your nitrogen.
19. thanks for watchin