The only photos I have don’t really geode the whole effect. But my perimeter is all black dirt, at least 2/3 of my yard. There’s nice trees planted in this dirt, hundreds.
But with nice black dirt, comes the weeds. They absolutely thrive here. I’m talking 5’ weeds all over the place and I can’t keep up with spraying constantly once I get it tilled and looking good.
So my question is, what would you do to make this way less of a hassle and extra, unnecessary labour? Could I get it tilled, do my best to spray every inch of hundreds of feet and then plant ______? Should I mow it all down first?
What are your suggestions?
by AutistMedium69
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Don’t spray it will kill the dirt. You gotta manually remove the weeds and plant plants you want
Okay: You either dont do anything at all. Nothing, just enjoy. (Best Option)
Or you have to basically scape everything. (expensive and probably more ugly)
What if you just cut it down occasionally? What weeds do you have? Any bad invasives? Or just “regular” stuff?
What is your goal? To have bare dirt? A safe haven for wild life? Impressive rose garden?
Weeds are plants growing in a garden that you don’t want growing in that garden. What you have there is not weeds. It’s assorted native prairie growth. It’s good for the land, and you should be thankful it’s there. Or you could till and seriously set back the soil ecosystem composition trying to hijack it with more desirable “native” flowers.
That stuff wants to grow there, so let it. Or get some goats to come in on a regular basis.
A prairie is very difficult to copy unless you live in a prairie. A lot of seeds you find will be unreliable in anything other than a prairie. If a prairie is what your looking for, do control burns. Prairie plants actually depend on burns. The prairie plants survive the low burn invasives don’t.