In this video, I share 2 easy steps to make your garden weed free forever! Weeds in your garden and yard are a nuisance, and weeding gardens and weeding landscaping can take several hours each month. Preventing weeds from growing in the first place is key. This video explains how to prevent weeds from growing and will save you countless hours weeding your garden!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Intro To Reducing Garden Weeds
0:50 Step #1: Mulching Your Garden
4:38 The Best Mulches & The Worst Mulches
5:38 Step #2: Install Weed Barrier For Weed Control
8:29 How To Plant Vegetables Using Weed Barrier
10:04 Bonus Tip: Weed Free Garden Walkways!
12:43 Adventures With Dale
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If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Intro To Reducing Garden Weeds
0:50 Step #1: Mulching Your Garden
4:38 The Best Mulches & The Worst Mulches
5:38 Step #2: Install Weed Barrier For Weed Control
8:29 How To Plant Vegetables Using Weed Barrier
10:04 Bonus Tip: Weed Free Garden Walkways!
12:43 Adventures With Dale
I have been using weed fabric for many yrs. Excellent product and zero weeds
AWESOME VIDEO! Thanks!!
"How did you prevent having to spend 3 hours weeding every month?"
"I spent 3 hours mulching every month."
It looks good homie!
20 year weed barrier is a lifesaver!!
I can agree with the mulch in the raised beds. As far as the poly woven weed barrier, I do use it, but the Bermuda grass in my yard comes in under, over and through the barrier and removing it ends up with holes in the weed barrier. My fight with the Bermuda grass goes on and on and on and on. I really want to move!!!!!!!!
I plant between where the weed barrier strips meet, so no need to cut holes. You are correct, no light=no weeds.
Great video and very timely. I have a bed for direct seeded plants like beans and corn. I double dug soil (not raised bed) to 18" then put 3 – 4 inches of compost on top. Just before a heavy rain… The rain washed away and compressed the compost to about 1 inch thick. I have some straw but it's in a breezy spot. I could put some soil on top of the straw but then that reduces the weed suppression aspect.
Any ideas for this direct seeded bed to not pick weeds all summer? Thanks in advance!
How do you deal with weeds in your containers? Or does the mulch idea still apply?
Wow! Dale really loves that toy!
I've successfully used plain cardboard as a mulch with a little straw of wood mulch to make it look nice. Do you see any problem with chemicals from cardboard?
I plant my tomatoes through woven landscape fabric (think same as weed barrier) I just cut "X"s and plant, works wonders for both preventing weeds and keeping soil moist. I find though that the sun deteriorates the fabric over time.
Dale is full of energy, very nice to watch him run in the big beautiful garden.
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I use the weed barrier in myGarden in my back yard in Overlandpark , Ks
Love Dale!!! Our grand-dog has the exact toy but red. It is his absolute favorite and never leaves home without it. They have a brand new one put up on standby for when this one tears up like the last one!! LoL
What is the metal archway used for?
Go Dale go ❤❤❤
in terms of cost and time efficiency, i choose hoes over mulching, which also breeds snails etc.
once you have mulch on, which might cone with weed seeds itself, there is no way to use hoes and you have to bend over to pull each weed.
rather than a chore that when left too long produces copious new weed seeds, weeding with effective methods is the way to go, to reduce weed pressure.
weeds sprout easily, with little or no soil, as that is their nature.
most gardeners are not aware of the range of hoes, that can make weeding a breeze. spending loads of money and effort on mulching every year, you're better off getting some hoes, and there's no more bending all the time.
in the permanent flower/perennial borders it's a different story but, mulches never ended up being worth the money and work.
gardening is growing the plants you want, and removing the plants you dont want (weeding)…if you want close to zero weeds, lay down concrete.
How do you deal with rodents like rats or raccoons getting at your crops?
You just pit the weed barrier over grass and weeds?
Thank you great information
I bought a 45% vinegar. You mix it 1:1 ratio with water and spray weeds. I used on what popped thru the fabric and in 24 hrs they were wilting to brown by 48 hrs. I did not spray inside my beds because it is potent and didnt want to accidentally spray a good plant. BTW, i have stone in the walkways and it still gets weeds. Welcome to NC….
Make friends with a "tree man" who cuts down trees and grinds the stumps. Usually the homeowner will be tickled to have you haul off the shredded wood chips…FREE!
Good morning!
I enjoy your channel, do you have any tips to control horsetail, I am on Vancouver Island and the horsetail seems to be everywhere. Help Please!!!
Do you mulch above the drip lines? Or should the drip lines be kept above the mulch?
I am screening soil obtained from under feral pecan trees to use directly in a raised bed. The soil has been undisturbed for at least 30 years, so it is dark like forest soil. Loaded with weed seeds, plans are to space onion and sweet potato starts measured out carefully so I can put cardboard down with v shaped cut outs on the edge with matching spacing. One cardboard length one side, and another on the other side covers the roots to these desired plants for one season. I mulch on top of that with pine needles and leaves. I don't have a lot of money to buy amendments as I am retired, but I do have persistence and a lot of sweat, so here it goes. In central Georgia this worked well with potted tomatoes for one season, so doing onions and sweet potatoes is next in rows with raised beds verses planters. I felled some undesired trees. Next is to use thick trunks to make raised beds log cabin style that ought to last at least 10 years. 'At 76, it is a challenge but it keeps me going and healthy eating as much as possible like God intended.
I am a landscaper and want to tell everyone that stones as a mulch do not work to prevent weeds. Within 6 months there will be enough dust and dirt settled into the spaces around the stones to allow weeds to grow.
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Are those leeks or elephant garlic
You are so clever!
I just love Dale and the squeaky toy . Yes I am tire of weeding because I have weeds in my crappy grass producing seeds and spreading to my garden beds . I am saving to buy a weed barrier for the back yard where I have my vegetables and good grass for the front yard to reduce the weeds . Thanks millenial gardener!
This is the first year that I have had this happen but I have something taking mu pepper plants out at soil level. No tracks , and when I replaced them I dog the hole and root ball was still there. This morning one of my heirloom tomatoe plants gone. No Tracks. HELP
Great idea! So I live here in Eastern NC I live in a little town called Washington! We’re are you located? I also got one of my rain barrels done last night like you have done at your house! Thanks for the great ideas!
Love your ideas! Thanks
Instead of cutting holes in the weed barrier, try using a torch to burn them. Not only is it quicker and easier, it will seal the ends up so they don't fray 👍
I'm small gardener and I grow vegetables, herbs, prennials and annuals in my Backyard Canada Garden.
Today I learned a lot about wee control and write away I noted down in my shopping list to buy natural mulch this weekend for my backyard garden.
Thanks for sharing such a great tip to have weed free garden.
This guy is so handsome😍
I need mulch!
I like the weed barrier method. Can a 3- or 4-foot-wide barrier be cut in half to double the amount of barrier? Thanks, in advance.
How do i get rid of poison ivy
Thanks for sharing this information
Nutsedge will push its way straight up through that 3” mulch layer. I’m pulling it out as soon as I see it but that means daily diligence, pulling twice a day – morning and afternoon. It’s impossible to get all the rhizomes out of the soil so I’m trying to deprive it of photosynthesis (and thus hopefully killing it off) by pulling out what pops up.
Hi Anthony!👋😊 + 🐕
Off topic a little bit, but maybe you'd like to check out Huw Richards Composting Pathways video. It'll be interesting to hear your approach to his method. I'd love to try it but we have no cold weather here and also, I have wildlife here that will feast on that idea of composting plus the heat.
Dale is just a happy boy😍🐕🥰🐕😍🐕🥰🐕😍🐕
No pine anything it absorbs nitrogen while it breaks down.