Alternatives to Roundup

[NJCher]

4. I highly recommend the Ruth Stout method

I use it myself. I collect large brown cardboard boxes and flatten them. I only leave room for the plant itself to grow and be watered. I pile all kinds of stuff on top: mostly leaves, but also vegetable clippings. Small twigs. This keeps weeding to a minimum. I am setting this up now, which will leave me with fewer headaches as the gardening season moves on.

This doesn't completely eliminate weeding, but it does it about 95%. There are certain weeds that will find any little bit of sunlight and gravitate to it. That's when you get out the stirrup hoe and eliminate them so they don't pop up again. And, of course, you will always have to pinch out the little weeds growing next to your plant.


Cher