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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( How do you keep the weeds down? I have not been so fortunate, I tilled everything under, planted at the first part of April and you can see what I have going, the grass is growing better in the garden than the vegetables are.
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Randy, I do have a few weeds that try to pop up, but so far, they have not been all that hard to control. I have a "secret weapon" to help me with the weeds. I try to share that secret in some pictures to show how I do it, but Dave (Dumbdog) really has the idea. I allmost tilled the life out of this plot before I planted. I first used a 2-bottom plow andd then let that sit two weeks. Then I tilled as deep as I could go making three passes over the entire garden. I added some sand on one part and tilled that the 4th time to mix the sand.
The watering so far has been from soaker hoses only where I want it and finally some rain. Early on, the ground was dry and I think the roots to grass and a lot of weeds died before the rain came. If the ground had stayed wet, I might be fighting more weed problems.
I need to get a few more pictures posted. This weekend I finished my inner dog-fence to keep the dogs out of the garden and turned in the dogs to this area. They had so much new area to explore that they didn't even look at the garden. Most of the time they spent laying in a damp spot in the shade. I also put out liquid fertilizer in some areas that looked like it was needed and then put my "secret weapon" to work. It's a little two-cycle hand tiller that I jokingly call my gas-a-hoe. I bought this thing over ten years ago and used it primarily for flower beds until this year. Now I use it to till my garden. I'll try to get some pictures tonight to show what a great job this tiller does. My garden looks far better this week than it did last week since I've tilled everything with the gas-a-hoe (aka Ryobi tiller). /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
EDIT: I found a picture of the tiller. It's attached. I was shocked at what they want for these things now. I paid about $165 for it and now they want around $300. Wow! That's one heck of a mark-up. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
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Randy, I do have a few weeds that try to pop up, but so far, they have not been all that hard to control. I have a "secret weapon" to help me with the weeds. I try to share that secret in some pictures to show how I do it, but Dave (Dumbdog) really has the idea. I allmost tilled the life out of this plot before I planted. I first used a 2-bottom plow andd then let that sit two weeks. Then I tilled as deep as I could go making three passes over the entire garden. I added some sand on one part and tilled that the 4th time to mix the sand.
The watering so far has been from soaker hoses only where I want it and finally some rain. Early on, the ground was dry and I think the roots to grass and a lot of weeds died before the rain came. If the ground had stayed wet, I might be fighting more weed problems.
I need to get a few more pictures posted. This weekend I finished my inner dog-fence to keep the dogs out of the garden and turned in the dogs to this area. They had so much new area to explore that they didn't even look at the garden. Most of the time they spent laying in a damp spot in the shade. I also put out liquid fertilizer in some areas that looked like it was needed and then put my "secret weapon" to work. It's a little two-cycle hand tiller that I jokingly call my gas-a-hoe. I bought this thing over ten years ago and used it primarily for flower beds until this year. Now I use it to till my garden. I'll try to get some pictures tonight to show what a great job this tiller does. My garden looks far better this week than it did last week since I've tilled everything with the gas-a-hoe (aka Ryobi tiller). /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
EDIT: I found a picture of the tiller. It's attached. I was shocked at what they want for these things now. I paid about $165 for it and now they want around $300. Wow! That's one heck of a mark-up. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
