I Hate Weeding

But I know three ways to keep from doing it as much

In the heat of the summer, no one wants to be weeding!

I hate weeding. I almost consider it failure. Someday, I am going to have such a perfect no-till garden that I won’t need to weed ever. I’ll just do my planting and do my watering and then my harvesting. (A girl can dream can’t she?) Until then, here are a few of the things I am doing to decrease the amount of weeding I have to do every summer season.

My Version of Chop and Drop Weeding

If I lived in a brittle climate or if I lived in the tropics, I probably would use the normal chop method of controlling weeds. In that method, you simply chop the leaves off the weeds or off the bushes or trees that you are trying to control and then you would lay them at the foot of the tree or bush so that you would create a mulch from those leaves. The roots of the tree, bush, or plant would be left in the ground to decay and increase the organic material in the soil. The concept works like nature where leaves and broken branches fall to the ground and reintegrate into the soil.

In my method of chop and drop, I actually pull the weeds out by the roots, most of the time. I then take the plants that I pulled and put them at the edge of the garden and put it in a pile to decompose. In addition to the weeds, I would add chicken manure and yard wastes…