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Weeds - best suggestions new garden
a1154
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Id like to hear everyones best advice on keeping on top of weeds for a new garden. I just have loads of bare soil and until plants grow and cover it im stuck with weeding.
i have done - green manures, fabrics, ground cover plants, spraying, hand weeding, bark chips, and drinking wine to drown my sorrows!
I found fabric (it was a cheap one) easily penetrated by weeds.
not done mulching apart from the bark, as i dont know how to get a large enough quantity of anything to assist. I can get bark chips reasonably cheaply, but they dont work well on a slope, of which i have plenty.
Help?
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Glyphosphate maybe? Found it killed off all my weeds, then it can be covered with a good quality fabric. Other than that it's just hand weeding as much as you can, you'll still have weeds when you have an established garden.
What weeds do you have if you know?
I have glyphosated a few times - you need to be ready to do something else with it or not bother i think, as you need to the do it again.
I have dock, nettles, thistles, jack by the hedge and forget me not mostly.
Problem with leaving areas is that they easily seed cultivated bits.
if you have a slope why not plant up with ground cover like roses and in other areas be like father christmas and HOE HOE HOE
Aye lots of hoeing. Have you got a recommendation for a good ground cover rose? I did use to have a gorgeous dark pink one, but never knew what it was called and haven't seen it again.
I think creeping buttercup and stinking tam deserve a mention too. I think digging, hoeing and any working of the soil brings up weed seeds. I think i started out with some enthusiasm but didnt realise how difficult the weeds would be.
Can you show us some photos of the site and problems - they might enable us to think creatively to find a solution - don't want you getting disheartened
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
How about accepting that you have a wildflower garden? No need to worry about weeds then.