Tips to keep your flower beds
After years of tending the garden, I have learned that there are some tricks that can help prevent the most feared of all needs - weed pull. The best, and easiest, thing you can do is prevention.
When choosing a location for a flower bed, try to choose a point with which is relatively free of bad-start, and not located near any weed seed production, such as your flower garden too big for his age neighbors, or under any seed-producing trees such as maple. If the "spot" weed is already infested, you need to start throwing (yes, by hand) of weeds.
While doing this, try not to disturb no germs that have already formed in the stems. Any fully formed seeds germinate when exposed to recently tilled its soil. Depending on the size of the weeds, you can help prevent germs from falling by tying one of the following tracks on weed seeds: a paper bag, a pillow case, the severed leg of a pair of panty hose (or knee high), or you can also use a bag of onions (depending on the size of the organisms). Be sure to discard the seeds, plants and all, into a waste receptacle and not in a compost pile where they can really unleash havoc.
When your chosen area was fully prepared, and you have planted your seeds or bulbs, or have dug their holes and put your plants on earth, the next step is MULCH. Mulch is relatively easy and can be a wonderful accent to your landscape, and may also reduce the amount of water needed to keep your flowers excellent shape during those hot summer days.
Depending on the area where you live, the mulch can also protect your plants from freezing in the winter months. When choosing a mulch, there are currently several options, from newspapers and peanut shells and cut recycled tires, but my favorite remains of the shattered straw or pine bark. If you need help choosing what works best in your area then try is to ask your local nursery for help there more out there.
Whatever you decide to use, be sure you have enough to cover the area for four to six inches, continue to add mulch or as condensed as the bark and pine straw decomposes over time. If the mulch is maintained properly, will be attractive and will last for years, and is an impediment to the weed. This brings us to pull the occasional weed. If the mulch is maintained then you should be able to pass with only a weekly walk through the weeds to keep check.
Another benefit of mulch is it makes pulling weeds easier. A gentle tug near the base of the stem of the weed is usually all that is needed. Again, make sure to dispose of them properly.
There is one more method you can use to rid your flower beds of weeds and this is using chemical herbicides. I admit I'm not too fond of chemicals since I have children and pets who love to enjoy the garden as much as I do, but sometimes they can be an invaluable tool in ridding your garden of weeds. It is important however that you use them correctly.
Since not all herbicides work the same and I am not familiar with all herbicides that are out there, be sure to ask your local grower nursery help. They can say what they have available and can recommend the best for your particular problem herbicide weed. To save all those who enjoy the safe use of the garden, be sure to use herbicide on the way up which we think and store away from children and pets.
If you follow these recommendations then you can have a beautiful and easy-to-care-for the flower garden.
