Now is a great time to solarize garden spaces before planting your fall garden. This is a super easy method to kill aggressive weeds/grass or to clear out an area to started gardening. Solarization kills weeds, seeds, nematodes, and other bad pathogens that cause plant diseases.
– Use clear plastic only. It is better at trapping the sun’s heat than other color plastics.
– Choose plastic that is at least 4 to 6 mil thickness. The thinner stuff will disintegrate into tiny pieces. Follow my link to Amazon to find the same kind that I use: https://tinyurl.com/by2ernek
– I use extra long landscape staples to keep the tarp down. I also put lawn chairs and other items on top to keep the tarp down.
– Solarize the area for about 6 weeks or more if needed.
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6 Comments
Great info! I was thinking I needed black plastic. Thanks Jerra.
I did it with cheap blue harbor freight tarps! Worked well but took a while and the tarps were disintegrating at the end! Clear plastic is probably gonna get it done faster and cleaner! Nice!!
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Thanks for your videos I've been gardening for years and still learning new ideas
I dint think solarizing will kill torpedo grass, if you dig it up , you will see how far down it is. You have to dig that up.
Crabgrass is easy to pull up , but the clear plastic will kill it.
I was wondering should I fertilize with rabbit manure before or after the plastic sheet is on.?