How To Easily Get Rid Of Weeds And Grass Forever With Folk Remedies

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Folk remedies for weeds: get rid of the grass once and for all

Weed control takes a lot of gardeners' time and energy. There are folk remedies for eliminating grass in the area, but not all of them are effective and safe.

How to get rid of weeds for good

Weeds interfere with the growth and development of cultivated plants. Many gardeners dream of getting rid of them once and for all, but at the same time they face difficulties.

Mechanical methods

The safest, but at the same time quite time-consuming way of weed control is mechanical removal. The grass must be pulled out in time with your hands, but it is much more effective to remove them by the roots. The rhizomes remaining in the soil give new growth very quickly.

Experienced gardeners are advised to dig up the beds in autumn and spring with a pitchfork, not a shovel. In this case, the roots of weeds are not damaged, and they can be easily pulled out of the ground. Autumn and spring digging must be complemented with regular weeding throughout the summer season. Using a hoe will not be able to get rid of deep-lying rhizomes, but repeated cutting of the aerial part of the plants and the upper part of the rhizomes greatly weaken the weed.

To get rid of weeds in a certain area, the ground is dug up and covered with dark agrofibre, which does not let the sun's rays through. This doesn't give the weeds any chance. By making small holes in the agrofibre, you can plant strawberries, strawberries or almost any vegetable crop there.

To protect the beds from weeds, you can dig up the soil and cover it with agrofibre. Weeds will not germinate under a dense dark film

A good effect is given by mulching the soil with sawdust, mown grass, tree bark. It is difficult for weeds to break through the mulch layer.

In order for the weeds to grow less, in the fall, you can sow the site with siderates. Mustard, rye perfectly loosen the soil with their rhizomes and suppress the growth of weeds. In the spring, 2 weeks before the start of sowing, all that remains is to dig up the beds.

Folk remedies

Chemical methods of weed control involve the use of herbicides. At the same time, almost all industrially produced drugs are unsafe. Their use negatively affects the condition of the soil. Plus, herbicides aren't cheap. To save money, you can try to remove weeds using folk methods.

Vinegar

Vinegar is capable of destroying both weeds and vegetables. It should be used with caution. To prepare the working solution, mix 3 cups of 9% vinegar with 10 liters of water. The specified amount is enough to process 2 acres of land. Spray the soil with the resulting composition in autumn or early spring, when the weeds are just beginning to break through. The solution can be sprayed onto weeds, making sure that it does not get on the cultivated plants.

Vinegar treatment strongly acidifies the soil, therefore, after removing the weeds, it is imperative to sprinkle the beds with ash at the rate of 4 glasses of ash per 1 hundred square meters

For spot removal of weeds, mix 9% vinegar with lemon juice in a 3: 1 ratio. Pour the resulting solution strictly under the roots of the weed or spray on it. This method is good for dandelion control.

To increase the effectiveness of the solution, you can add detergent to it. You need to take 2 cups of vinegar and water, a bag of citric acid, 30 g of alcohol, 2 tsp. liquid detergent. Mix all this well and spray the area with weeds. It should be borne in mind that the solution kills not only weeds, but also other plants.

To combat separately growing weeds, it is possible to apply a spot application of vinegar solution

Herbicidal soap

You can make herbicidal soap yourself. To do this, mix in equal proportions vinegar 9%, salt, grated soap and water. The mixture is infused for 2 hours, after which they are sprayed with a bed of weeds. After a few days, a piece of land should be dug up, and ash should be added. Treatment with herbicidal soap should be carried out at least 3 weeks before planting seeds or seedlings. Additional application of micronutrients and organic fertilizers to the soil is recommended.

Vinegar and herbicidal soap based on it are slightly inferior in their effectiveness to industrial herbicides, but at the same time they are considered more environmentally friendly and sparing for the soil.

Soda

A baking soda solution can be used to control weeds. 500 g of soda powder is dissolved in 2 liters of water and 1 piece of crushed laundry soap is added. After infusion, the resulting composition is sprayed on areas with weeds. This method is quite effective, but after such treatment, the acid-base balance of the soil is disturbed and it is necessary to acidify it (by adding peat, compost).

Weeds grow very quickly in my garden. I tried almost all the ways to deal with them. But I came to the conclusion that I will no longer use herbicides due to the high toxicity. Folk methods help to remove weeds, but they also harm the soil. I use all these solutions either pointwise or for processing paths, areas where I do not plan to plant anything in the next couple of years. I fight weeds in the beds using proven methods - I dig, weed and mulch.

What tools should not be used

Several folk remedies for weed control are not recommended due to their potential to damage the soil. To remove weeds, some gardeners spill the soil with a salt solution (1 kg of table salt per 10 liters of water). The specified amount of solution is enough for 1 sq. m of land. Salt destroys weeds, but after such treatment, nothing can be planted on the site for 1–2 years.

The method of weed control involving the use of alcohol is not very effective and harmful. Ethyl alcohol is diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 5 and watered with weeds. It is not recommended to use this method on the beds, as the weed grows quickly, and the soil condition after such watering is very poor.

Not only ineffective, but also dangerous is the burning of grass, which some gardeners suggest as a method of weed control. In addition, after an arson, the soil microflora is greatly disturbed, and it is not recommended to plant garden crops on such a site for 2 years. Watering the soil with Coca-Cola is not only an expensive but also a useless way to control weeds.

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To control weeds, you can use both mechanical methods of eliminating them, and preparations made at home. It should be borne in mind that the use of some folk remedies makes the soil unsuitable for growing vegetables and flowers on it in the next few years.