Guide to Successful Gardening

Conquer Persistent Lawn Weeds

Lawn weeds can be a frustrating experience for any gardener, and how, in only summer, they can manage to invade any garden and conquer it with undeniable efficacy and dominance, that Rome’s invasion of Pompeii would seem like a minor accomplishment.

Weeds can literally start to grow under your nose, and everything can happen so quickly that you may not even have time to realize the gravity of the situation.

Taking hold of the lawn mower that had been neglected throughout the past winter, my be a quick fix to getting rid of the grass weeds. It may seem that the weeds were gone after one or two hours of mowing.

But slowly over the next two weeks, the lawn weeds were back, and as it they were announcing their victorious revenge; they grew more prominent then ever before.

This may prompt you into taking more action, and mowing the lawn all over again, in the hope that the second wave of attack would do the trick.

You guessed it, it didn’t work. After only a week or so, the lawn weeks were back with a vengeance, bigger and stronger than ever before. This terrible attempt to defeat the weeds seems to be ending in tragedy.

In order to completely eradiate the persistent weeds it is important to spend a few moment researching the matter, this will enable you to discover the vast selection of weed killing methods that are available.

Of all the strategies that are out there on the market, the two that seemed to stand with amazing results are cycling and mulching.

Cycling starts out be removing the topmost portions of the weeds, much like you would when originally mowing the lawn. But it doesn’t stop there. When the mowing stops, the ground needs to be cultivated, and the soil turned around to place the weed seeds together with the weed seedling at the top of the pile. Subsequently, after a week or so, when the weeks that to pop up again, the process should be repeated. It’s a constant pledge that will only stop once the weeds are entirely eradicated. And based on experience, this can often be accomplished on the fourth cycle.

Mulching involves the spreading of bark and other organic materials on top of the soil. This results in the immediate killing of existing weeds and thwarts the growth of budding ones. Further to that, mulching will make the soil health, which can only mean great things for your growing crops.

It may get frustrating at first with the weeds, but with persistence, it is possible to achieve a sense of fulfillment at being able to defeat the lawn weeds.