Yesterday in honor of the coming rain I hoed several garden beds. It didn’t take long, about 5-15 minutes per bed. Not too bad considering I did eight beds, each 80 feet long with three rows of direct seeded seedlings in each bed. Why was I able to complete so much in...
Weed Control
One man’s weeds are another’s treasure.
Weeds we call them. All of those plants that we don’t want popping up in areas we don’t want them in. I would guess it is the most annoying and perplexing problem gardeners have. When I am giving a talk and mention some of the ways we handle weeds- hands always go up...
Living Mulch
The fall of 2012 we began a new way of mulching our gardens. In years past we have always collected thousands of bags of leaves to mulch the pathways, it looked and worked beautifully and it added tons of organic matter to our gardens. However, it was very labor...
It’s all about the weeds!
Weeds in the TGW garden is one of the never-ending problems we have. I hear the same complaint from guests at every program I give. The best solution I have learned through my years as a commercial cut flower grower is that preventing the weeds from ever starting is...
It’s all about the weeds!
It’s all about the weeds! Weeds in the TGW garden is one of the never-ending problems we have. I hear the same complaint from guests at every program I give. The best solution I have learned through my years as a commercial cut flower grower is that preventing...
Quick, Get the Hoe!
Go out to your flowerbeds and take a look…did you see them? Little baby spring weeds, that's what they are, everywhere! They are about ½-1" tall and look oh so healthy. You see spring weeds follow the same growing schedule as our fall-planted spring blooming flower...