From early spring to late fall the summer residents and gardeners combat weeds. Here both choppers, and shovels, and manual weeding are used, but, as a rule, soon the weeds sprout again. To cope with problem will help several advice of experienced vegetable growers.
To receive rather clean kitchen garden in the spring, it is necessary to try very much in the fall. Preparing the site for wintering, it is impossible to leave weeds at all. Therefore before starting digging up of allotments, it is necessary to remove all remained sprouts by means of chopper. It is better to dig kitchen garden pitchfork, but not shovel since they pull out all stalks and roots on povernost. To collect the remains of weeds and to carry away them from beds it is also necessary to exclude repeated germination in the spring. Experienced gardeners advise to dig over the soil after temperature falls to zero that the roots and seeds which have remained on surface, have died from frosts.
As optimum time for primary weeding are considered May-June as along with the planted cultural plants also the most part of weeds sprouts. Weeding kitchen garden at the end of spring the beginning of summer, it is possible to remove practically all unnecessary young growth. It is no secret, that it is better to weed kitchen garden after heavy rain or abundant watering then the grass will be pulled out better and the chance to leave roots deeply in the earth comes down to zero.
To avoid infinite routine weeding, some summer residents use ukryvny the material similar to black dense polyethylene. It dim allotment, make openings for landing of plants and put. It is especially convenient to use material on strawberry, wild strawberry and other long-term cultures.
Use of siderat - one more way to save the site from weeds. Carry clover, mustard to siderata oats and so forth, sow them on the earth, free from saplings. Growing dense carpet, they do not allow weeds to break through and saturate the soil with nitrogen.
If the site has not been improved in time and now smells sweet as all species of weeds, chemical means for destruction of grass are used. They in wide assortment are provided in specialized shops. Using similar medicines, you should not forget that along with weeds they destroy also cultural plants, plus exhaust the top fertile soil layer.