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    Hello growers, I'm Alice the new Editorial Assistant of Grow Your Own. As always we like to include your comments in our allotment feature in the magazine, so would be interested to know how you keep weeds under control during the summer months?

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    Get a man in that can. Mulch and hoe,hoe, hoe!

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    • #3
      Get the hoe out the day after it rains. Not only will this kill the germinating weeds, the layer of loose soil will act as a barrier to evaporation from lower in the soil to save you some future watering.
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      • #4
        I have clayey soil that forms a thick crust. Usually, I give the beds a good watering and then pull the weeds out by hand. That's always the case for onions. If I'm in a hurry, I use a Dutch or Chillington hoe, but that just ends up forming great lumps of clay or hurting my wrists and hands as it bounces off the surface.

        I did mulch one year, but it was a haven for pests.

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        • #5
          The Hoe is your friend but I also have a special weapon. My mam likes to go down the plot but can't do the heavy work. She does like to sit in a chair next to a bed and pull out all the weeds, one bed at a time, whilst I get on with the rest of the work.

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          • #6
            Hoe, chop and drop, pizza box weed suppressant around bushes and similar - using more much and woven weed fabric this year too
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            • #7
              Mulch as much as possible and remove weeds as they appear, and definitely before they have time to produce seeds. No dig also seems to reduce the weed population.
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              • #8
                I've said it before and I'll say it again,the best weedkiller is the gardeners shadow!
                My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

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                • #9
                  Hoeing is the way to go, I like to hoe on dry sunny days as those weeds that the hoe dosent cut and just drags out get killed by the heat of the sun
                  Last edited by Greenleaves; 02-06-2017, 07:16 PM.

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                  • #10
                    I hoe, I hoe,
                    Its off to hoe I go
                    I hoe in summer and in spring
                    And chops the heads off weedy things..............

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                    • #11
                      All the open beds get hoed, but the beds under netting have crops growing through weed control fabric, so that I don't have to keep removing the netting to weed the beds.

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                      • #12
                        I don't have weeds, I have wild flowers and a blind spot......
                        Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
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                        • #13
                          Mulch, mulch and mulch again.
                          Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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                          • #14
                            I have started looking at weeds as a useful item to harvest. For making liquid feed.

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