How to weed your garden - expert tips
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- When and how to weed your garden, the real truth about weeding without chemicals, weeding with a hoe and the best weeding equipment. Plus top tips from experts, bloggers and TH-camrs, including Mark Lane Designs, Laetitia Maklouf, Alex Mitchell, The Skinny Jean Gardener, @CharlesDowding1nodig @Gardenninja @LizZorab Jack Wallington and the Two Thirsty Gardeners. Find out the real truth about weeding and the easy ways to do it.
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This is a fabulous video. I love that you've also included contributions from other channels as well. Well done indeed :)
Thank you!
As this is the pinned comment i'll share here that in order to search Google more accurately, you need only use the correct symbols.
For example, if you search for "weeding" (including the "__" symbols) it will only return results which exactly include the term weeding. If you type "weeding" -wedding, it will also remove all results including the word wedding.
This is known as boolean search logic, if you wanted to search it to find out more about this. Hope this helps someone!
I just love Alexandria and her humour and practical no nonsense approach! Incidentally her advice is sterling!
Thank you so much!
I just LOVE how gardening TH-camrs just see each other as resources and colleagues rather than competition! Such a positive collaborative online space 😁😁
Thank you. I love how you promote other experts ( maybe other influencers wouldn’t do it fearing losing followers). I think your confidence comes from your experience, knowledge, love gardens and over all, you are aware how much the way you choose topics and edit them are helping many people around the world. I’m from Japan, even though the climate is different I learn a lot from your site, thank you.
Thank you! Japanese gardens are so interesting and have quite an impact on our gardening style
I randomly searched for a video on weeds and stumbled upon this. I have a love-hate relationship with my garden. The humorous opening is classic. Who would think the subject of weeds could be such a pleasure? I'm a bit more motivated to go outside and try to tackle this! A sincere thank you!
Thank you!
For those times when a weed killer is necessary, I have had great success applying it with a paintbrush, which spares the surrounding plants from overspray damage. Thank you for very enjoyable content!
That's a good tip.
Really nice. Love how much you collaborate with others and introduce us to new people to follow.
Im newish to gardening and I’m trying to go for the reclassify/give nature a space in my garden. Would never trust my children to weed- my daughter has a habit of tipping plant pots upside down on the raised beds and announcing “Sand Castle!” Shes two and loves getting her hands dirty.
Sweet!
Yes to native plants (aka weeds)and especially those that feed pollinators and us. You are blessed if you have dandelion, chickweed, and clover. Just say no to chemicals and plastic. So much better (in my experience) to use newspaper and cardboard in place of landscape plastic with applied composted leaf mulch on top, or any mulch. Fabulous video.
Thanks for your informative videos. Tip for weeding. I bought very cheap hand forks & leave 1 in every bed so that if I see a weed when I'm passing by I can remove it quickly without getting my hands dirty.
That's an interesting tip!
Great video! My parents always thought me that a "weed" is just a plant we haven't found a use for yet.... That mind set saves you a lot of time and energy, and makes you appreciate nature on an all new level.
So true!
My Mom loved dandelions as they were so nutritious. My neighbors frown on my growth but they are such cheerful reminders of finding value in what others dismiss as worthless. We ate them regularly growing up. My neighbor treat their yards with chemicals s I d not trust mine are not impacted by ground waters and over spray😥
Im alone in my place since march 8, that intro on googling weeding was epic. I laughed so hard thanks. What serious research you do, i love your attitude! Thanks
Thank you! I hope we all get some better news soon and are able to move more freely but safely.
I love your videos including how you always end them with the most sweet, lyrical goodbye!
My go-to mulch is living. Densely planted evergreen groundcovers like periwinkle (Vinca minor) and sweet violets have gotten rid of nettles, thistles, and bindweed in our garden. It does take several years for the groundcovers to get established, but eventually they become robust enough to snuff out all weeds. Our vegetables are planted very close together in block beds. Early on in the season, some weeding is required, but soon the veggie's own leaves block out sunlight to the competition.
That's a very good point. Thank you.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I have also always used periwinkle but to my shock and horror, I have discovered that half my vinca is actually wintercreeper. I live in Virginia where it is a problem. At this point, I'm not sure I can save my beautiful rhododendron and azaleas. As I now try to pull up the well-established wintercreeper, everything is getting pulled up in the process. Gardening advise would be appreciated, but at this point I think I need an exorcist.
👌👍❤ I am 80 yrs old Just retired from work but now courting the garden. Gardening is enjoyable but it is like dealing with a difficult partner. needing to keep with all difficulties in this partnership buy hoping for the happy ending. Happy ending does happen. Loved all the tips. Thank you.
Thank you and I agree!
I do two things that cut my weeding down to 15 minutes per week once the plants are established. I rototill my soil once in spring and then again in the fall to incorporate grass clippings and a bag of compost per garden box. It doesn’t take long for the green grass clippings to break down, and the compost enriches the soil and helps it become lighter and looser. I put 24” rebar at all 4 corners of the boxes ,and cut 1” flexible irrigation pipe into 8ft. Lengths and thread them over the rebar to make hoops. This accomplishes 2 things as I put 6 mil clear plastic over the hoops to warm the soil earlier in spring and the plastic over the hoops keeps weed seeds floating in the air from landing in the grow boxes. I use the high density planting method so each box is packed with plants and plants grown from seed, so again when I need to remove the plastic, the plants keep floating seeds from landing on the dirt, so there is very little weeding to be done. Watering is also easier because I can flood the box as needed with a wand on the end of hose. Hope this helps.
I am a new gardener at the age of 53, trying to make up for lost time. I find your videos a tremendous source of information and very pleasant to watch
I’m so glad I’m watching this! I wish I would’ve watched this a few months ago before my garden was overrun by weeds! I have a lot of work to do now
Very informative as always. It can be fun to miss a weed and find out that it is a plant that you like. I had this happen with wild Ageratum. I had been pulling it up for years and one time I missed some. That's when I discovered it has a lovely blue blossom that blooms late in the season. Since then I have spread it around the garden for late season color. Durham, NC, USA
Thank you!
Thank you for this video. I have tried a home-made solution using vinegar and also bought an organic weed-killer containing vinegar and neither took out the strong weeds. I was recently given 2 bottles of 20 or 30% acetic acid vinegar and a bottle of 70%, bought from a grocery shop. It was your comment about vinegar that encouraged me to look it up. I had no idea that it could be so dangerous - I was going to use it for pickling and weed killing! So, thank you for talking about vinegar.
The 20% acetic acid vinegar does work, and it's also scary. Before I bought an all-plastic sprayer to apply it to weeds in a gravel driveway, some friends who were visiting one very hot day had the idea to experiment with the vinegar and one sturdy perennial we were looking at by applying it with a paintbrush. That weed wilted so fast it took our breath away. Note: After spraying the driveway weeds in early summer for three years, the edges of the lawn where it had been oversprayed remained brown. So there is some redidual effect. Not glyphosphate, at least!
Hi. I am a Japanese woman and have found this video very instructive. I myself have weeded my small garden (not middle-sized like yours) composed of conifers, turf and roses for three years. Your four basic tips are what I am vaguely aware of from my own weeding experience, but your explicit statement in this video has convinced me that it is right. What is more useful tip for me is the story of the garden owner who removed a weed at the moment she found it. Your statement has really urged me to do so on a daily basis. Your mention of your daughter who is refreshed and revitalized by weeding at the end of her work is really impressing. I do not like weeding, but I am vaguely aware during gardening that contact with the nature always gives me energy. Your statement that even weeding refreshes and revitalizes a weeding person has surprised me. This has completely changed my perception of weeding. Weeding has become an enjoyable task. Thank you very much.
Thank you so much!
For anyone intending to use weedkiller. It's more practical to apply weedkiller with a course, larger droplet spray. This means less air pressure within the spraying unit. It is much less likely to drift onto nearby, cherished plants. A good tip also, is to initially get a feel for any new weedkiller applicators spread and handling using water only, spraying onto a hard surface to literally get a visual example of it's drift.
Thank you, that's interesting.
I love Charles Dowding!! He is the most brilliant gardener ever!!
He is, indeed.
The one weed I leave alone is alkanet. It seeds from uncultivated gardens either side of mine. The bees go crazy for the nectar in the small, pretty blue flowers, especially in early spring when there is very little else about. The bonus is that the plant is relatively short-lived and easy to pull up.
I do pull alkanet out, but that doesn't deter it, and as you say, the bees love it.
I am SO glad I came upon these videos! So informative & practical &delivered in such a delightful, friendly way! Thank you Alexandra.
Thank you!
Thank you and the contributing you tubers. I'm really not a middle sized gardener because i have 6 acres, but some of it is wooded so I have to live with weeds. I usually get out the gas powered equipment and go to town chopping. In the cultivated areas i pull them out, but now I'm going to look for the hand tool you use. Our garden centers will be opening next weekend in Michigan and I can hardly wait. Thank you again and I'll be looking up the guests you tubers.
Thank you!
Greetings from Cleveland, Ohio. I just found this video and it's so helpful. I feel like I can go back out there and conquer the world, or at least the weeds in my garden. Thank you 🌱
I'm inside, taking a break from weeding, and thrilled that I found your You Tube channel and this excellent weeding video! I was just telling my husband that I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the weeds. And our very large lawn is certainly not only grass -- more and more weeds every years. I'm trying to be OK with this for the most part. In fact we plan to plant red fescue and Dutch White Clover to create a "bee lawn." Thanks for all the links and introductions to other gardeners who share their expertise. I've subscribed to your channel and look forward to following along with you! Stay well!
So nice to read about someone going for a "useful" lawn rather than the standard useless one! Good luck with a pollinator lawn, that sounds fun. Prairie Nursery, in Wisconsin, has a mix of fescues that forms a no-mow lawn of long grasses that lay down and block out any weeds, and only needs mowing three times a year. I'm in favor of switching to flowering plants, myself; but anything that takes you away from the standard "perfect lawn" is a wonderful thing.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
You always put a smile on my face, I appreciate your humour
Thank you!
Exceptional presentation on variety of wedding (🥴) hints, tricks, habits or alternate views! I love that you spent a good amount of the video showcasing other gardeners styles or hints. Plus you interspersed their clips!
It provided a thorough cover of the topic that saves the reader tons of time, plus all gardeners enjoy more gardening channels!
I subscribed for your willingness to share other channels you follow!!
Thanks so much! 😊 It's great to hear that people appreciate hearing about other channels.
Thank you so much for this video. I am a novice gardener and I’ve been wondering how to tackle the plethora of weeds in the garden.Lovely to hear from other contributors as well.
Glad it was helpful!
Loved this video! I agree that my garden has mead my Corona time very manageable! I have loved the time outside in the sun and fresh air and am so grateful for the birds and their songs! What a gift to me and a wonderful therapy during the stress of this pandemic😎
I've now got an area in my garden that i thought of as full of weeds but I've let it grow this year and I'm very surprised how lovely it is.
And the wildlife are very grateful too, I expect.
Haha, just thought you might like to know that I Googled "weeding your garden" (this is Apr 2021) and THERE YOU WERE! I'm still trawling through your older stuff, love it! Cheers from Oz! 🦘
Thanks Alexandra this such a great channel, you always bring the community together & I love connecting with the other youtubers. Your videos are always very timely
Thank you!
Thank you sooo much for such a practical and well informed advice on all things weeding.
thank you for all the useful information, and thank you to the commenters with additional insight and inspiration ~ sometimes i say to myself (regarding weeding or mowing) ~ today i'm going to make my garden pretty! it's a mindset. greetings from Raleigh, North Carolina.
Thank you for compiling this video, it has all the information in one place and saved a lot of searching about for me.
Glad it was helpful!
You're so well spoken. You get right to the point. You're so informative. Thank you!
You are so welcome!
great idea and tip , i just weed my garden by hand and removing them when they are small , it is a lots of work but is fun and excllent meditation
This is a wonderful video! I’ve adopted the philosophy of declassifying weeds into really pretty plants I want to keep. They come up first in the spring in my lawn and feed the pollinators until other plants are available. But I also let the various weeds come up over the seasons, there are different varieties, to live their lives with pollinators and wildlife. Occasionally, the celandine bully the oxalis, so I dig clumps of those out. But I love the “wild” lamium and let it run rampant through the lawn. The only thing I try to keep in line are the dandelions. They really want to take over. The clover keeps to itself. There are so many plants with minute but complicated flowers and I enjoy them as much as things I plant. I watched your video on making your front garden into a meadow, and I thought it was lovely even without large clumps of daffodils - which will come later. I think it’s natural that things come along slowly. A bird drops a seed that then becomes a single plant and then multiplies. Any real gardener will see what you’re doing, and anyone who thinks your front garden is unkempt? Who cares about them?!
Here for the first time, I’m a plant novice and this summation truly presents a helpful variety of strategies. I enjoy the pace and personal asides, thank you 😊
Thank you!
This is the best gardening advice channel on TH-cam, well done 👏
Oh well put together - very useful advise for gardeners of all experiences, take care, Hugh 😊👍🏼🌿
Thank you, hope you're well!
I just LOVE your videos and advice. Loved the guest tips, too. Nice work ☺️
Thanks so much! 😊
Also, love other gardeners sharing their ideas🌷
Very well done. Often it is recommended to plant a ground cover for weed suppression. However, I have found the most obnoxious weeds take hold in the ground cover. One ends up with a larger job of ridding both from the garden.
I agree, and I forgot to mention that. But you are right, that bindweed gets in to even the most densely planted border.
I am in the process of ridding our garden with vinca my mother planted forty years ago!
I totally agree and have been practicing several of the weeding suggestions with great success: take a daily walk through your garden with a hori hori knife and dig out all weeds (this includes the tiniest ones as well.) I also use cardboard pieces and then place 3" of mulch on top. Thank you for this video.
Oh, yes, the cardboard tip is excellent!
Mulch helps with weeding tremendously... I weed regularly especially easy when you have a large patch that only bulbs sprout from, I then know all other seedlings don't need to be there, unless! one looks interesting!😄
Absolutely.
Once upon a time as I was weeding I noticed one small weed with delicate, feathered leaves. I decided to let it grow a while to see what it looked like later. It didn't seem to do any harm, growing politely in its space. In spring it bloomed with tiny yellow flowers. After a couple of years it made a lovely large mat, sqeezing out other weeds. I decided it was doing so well in its dusty, dry spot, I took little plugs of it and planted them a forearm's length apart in a dreary, dusty pathetic excuse for a lawn. Then I weeded between the plugs as they slowly increased in size for three years -- and became a sturdy lawn-like area that needed no mowing, was drought resistant, crowded out most other weeds, and could be walked on. The wind had blown in creeping sedum!
I'm impressed with Mr. Dowding's success with bindweed. It made me move to another property
I have an acre of garden here in Normandy. This is laid to traditional English country cottage garden and a very large coppice-fenced vegetable and fruit garden. We also have a business which involves looking after other peoples! Some interesting tips here but I have a few things to add.
One thing that i didn't hear mentioned was WHEN to weed.a complete bed. By that I don't mean time of year...which is mentioned...I mean the condition the soil is in. We have a light clay soil which can veer between being claggy and slippy if too wet or hard as concrete when too dry. neither is good for weeding. There is an optimal soil condition which makes pulling the whole weed out easier....otherwise it breaks off and you are back to square one in no time. In my experience it is better use of energy to wait till better conditions so you can remove the whole weeds and their roots.
I do 'patrol' my whole garden every day and always make sure I have a couple of hand tools with me to remove anything that has sprung up unnoticed. (at the same time as i snip off dead heads as i go etc.
Lastly....allowing your husband to weed the path because 'everything that grows there is a weed whether it is a weed or not' isn't necessarily a good idea. Many of my clients have large areas of gravel paths etc and so i know that, along with weeds, lots of plants settle into the gravel and it is a terrible pity to waste them. I planted a new border entirely stocked from geums, lavender, rock-rose, aubretia, bell-flower etc etc which had self-set in gravel.
Another great video! Loved the funny introduction. I’m the wild-about-weeds sort because many weeds have pretty flowers or berries, so I even collect seeds from weeds I find growing in the street, haha.
There are weeds I love, like toadflax, and ones I hate like winter heliotrope...
I am one of those gardeners that irritate my husband and daughter. When we go for a stroll in the garden I have to bend down and pull weeds or pick up sticks!😣🙄
Martha Yoder 😂👍
I did that at a wedding reception. It was at a beautiful old home converted to a wedding venue and there were gardens. And one had a weed.
@@dudswoo 😂 Sounds like me. I pull weeds in garden centers.
Hi Alexandra, thanks for this video and all your tips, and also for recommending other good TH-cam gardening channels ... have subscribed to them all. My preferred method for weeding is to dig them all out by the roots, but I don't have a huge garden so it's less daunting, and because I've been persistent over the years it now is so much quicker, and now I actually enjoy weeding.
Thank you!
This was extremely helpful, thank you! It's given me the moral boost I needed to continue tackling the Crown vetch in my yard and garden.
I love my hori hori knife. It makes weeding less of a chore, and mulch helps.
I must get one.
Alexandra, you will love it!
Me too, I’m going to check on Amazon.
I’ll watch this video again!
Thank you for posting. At 2:18, I've discovered that spot spraying tender weeds with a non-toxic rust remover, such as Rust-Off (high acid vinegar solution), works well and doesn't poison the water table. Thank you. Liked and subbed. 💚
Thank you!
Thank you for all the homework you did for us. This is perhaps the most useful video about weeding I have stumbled upon to date.
Thank you!
Thank you for your videos. They are very helpful and I watch them often. I have learned much from you and appreciate your work.
Thank you so much very informative xx
I just subscribed. You did such a fabulous job with this video! Looking forward to seeing more of you 😊. Greetings from Wilmington, Delaware USA
I learned lots from this excellent video on weeding. Thanks for all the tips and links Alexandra
Glad it was helpful!
As you say, working in the garden does make one feel better. I also have about one thousand square meters of woods at the back of my middle sized garden. In looking for ways to improve immunity researchers found that people who spend time in the woods each week, a forest 'plunge' have improved immunity. The studies need to be expanded to assure that the effect is not anomalous, but so far so good. I feel guilty about how happy I have been due to this horrid virus. The air on the outskirts of Paris where i live is clean for the first time in decades. The French used leaded gasoline up until fifteen years ago when they replaced it with diesel fuel. Disgusting, both of them. The skies are blue with puffy clouds and the garden is exploding with colors like never before. Kill the virus and save the biosphere by doubling the tax on petrol. As for weeding: Bloody hate it.
The clean air is certainly an interesting side effect. Thank you.
Great show! My one thought: dealing with poison ivy is always a problem. I've found RoundUp applied CAREFULLY to the leaves works well. I have it amidst some evergreens and pulling is not an option. It also works on invasive grape vines. Again, careful application will not destroy surrounding plants.
Good point! Thank you.
Does this work on English ivy? Thank you! I’m being invaded!
Thank you well done I enjoyed watching
A fun and informative vid. YOU are a lovely lady
In addition to your years of observation, analysis, and reading, your delivery is so very well paced, relaxed, and without a trace of arrogance. So refreshing! So glad to have found you!
Just discovered your channel and happily subscribed. Grateful for the treasure trove of information in the videos! The video format is excellent. Your voice is so soothing! As I was watching this video in my novice garden, a bird took its time splashing about in the birdbath. It is a credit to your calm way of speaking. Thank you!
How lovely, thank you.
Why did I not think of a Nisaku Hori Hori? We generally rely on a "Cape Cod" weeder for most of our flower beds, which works well for common weeds like purslane and dandelions. But we still get out the shovel with dock and pokeweed. This will be just what we need - particularly in tighter spaces - and will be great for dividing plants.
Glad it was helpful.
Purslane is edible. Great in salads & very nutritious!
@@kayjohnson5149 I think this might depend on your growing zone. In our vegetable garden, purslane is a real nuisance, due to its succulent nature and its prevalence (which may be due to tilling)
Great video with great tips! We recently bought our first home and I've been letting everything grow kind of wild (including the weeds) just as an experiment to see what's here. To my surprise, I did discover a couple beautiful, native "weeds" that the pollinators have gone crazy for. I'll definitely be encouraging those in the garden next year!
Great approach!
What a lovely video. Not just great information, but very uplifting!
Thank you!
Love you videos and all the links to other sources of information. Double help. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this video. I'm subbed.
I just leave the weeds in my garden. I love telling people about the weeds. Eg Herb Robert/death, come quickly. I love the pink flowers . Dandelions and borage . I don't pull a weed I can't identify
Comfrey/knitbone. Calendula I have truly declassifiied most of themas herbs.
I love those names - I hadn't heard Herb Robert called Death Come Quickly before.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden. A descriptive name as it was used to stop blood flow centuries ago.
I agree on the philosophy of allowing weeds to thrive, they are survivors for a reason , Mother Earth makes no mistakes 🌍 🌱 🌸
Excellent video. Thank you so much. ❤
I have a lawn that's been taken over by wedelia (Sphagneticola trilobata). I learned that there are easier ways to remove it. Thank you.
Thank you!
Another very informative video .thank you for including other comments
Wonderful - really enjoyed this 💐
Glad you enjoyed it
Well put together, great resources! Thank you so much!
From the U.S., I use a pre-emergent granular application like Gallery in September and Dimension in April to prevent weeds from emerging on the lawn. This takes care of 80 percent of the ones in the Eastern U.S. Anything that creates shade, shade cloth, e.g., also does the job.
Interesting, thank you.
My favorite video of yours to date! thank you for sharing this inspiring perspective on weeding!
Thank you!
Fantastic and useful video !
Great advice. Thank you very much indeed! 🇺🇸😊
Thank you!
Wow. Amazing. Learnt so much in a... middle-sized video, if I can call it that. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
what about flame weeding with acetylene torch type equipment ... have you ever tried that
Anna S. R. P. Think of all the wildlife you burn too. I have used it but stubborn dandelions are still resistant
Very interesting video, what a marvellous chance discovery- I’m now a subscriber. Keep up the good work.
Welcome! Thank you.
I found most weeds provide a service to poor soil so improving the soil eliminated many, and the improved soil kept it loose for easier weeding of those that hang on. Check what the weeds bring to the soil, or takes away. Some may be helping. They will go away when they have done their jobs. I gave up on wild ivy and wild violets, prominent in the US Midwest, so I worked them into the design of my Cottage garden as ground cover. The improved soil made it easier to tailor them, aesthetically. Also, by waiting to see what some weeds turned out to be, I have gotten many new indigenous wild flowers as gifts from the birds.
Really nice video! But leave some Ground Elder. It is fabulous for your joins and delicious in Salads!
Nicely done, but I use a little cheat for my weed-pulling. I like to get the roots out, and they come out so much easier from moist soil! I water the day before I weed, and that makes it easier. But I am on the 'tother side of the pond, and I consider myself a lazy gardener looking to make life more beautiful and easier! Greetings from E of Chicago.....
Nice compilation of other presenters. That must have been a lot of work to create. Great job! 👍🏼🌻
Thank you! It was during lockdown so I couldn't interview people in person, but it's nice to have different inputs.
Love your videos thank you 🙏 😇🙏❤️
Great video! Very informative! I really like your reference videos as well. Thank you again🙋🏾♀️
Glad you like them!
Love your posts Really informative and all aspects of the problem considered. Subscribed and looking forward to watching more 😊. A weed is just a flower in the wrong place🌼🌻🌾🍀
Another weeding tool is one my grandparents used and it’s called grandpa’s weeder. It has a three prong end with a lever that you push the prongs into the ground around the root of the weed and pull toward the lever to get the whole weed out.
I think there are some like that available now, but I've never tried one.
You're totally wonderful! Thank you so much for all those magnificent tips. Richard from South Africa
Thank you!
I have used wet newspapers. They break down under the mulch and help quite a bit.
That sounds like a good idea.
What a great post, thank you so much🌱
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you kind lady
A very useful tool for getting deep rooted weeds such as dandelions out without having to get down on your hands and knees is a Newcastle Drainer Spade. It's got a long, thin, tapered spade head of about 14 inches long, 3 inches wide at the bottom and 5 at the top so the perfect tool for getting down deep enough to get all the root within a relatively tight hole diameter. If your soil is organic and fairly loose it is often enough just to slide the blade to half depth next to a dandelion, give it a good wobble to loosen the soil and then pull the dandelion gently by the base, continuing to wobble the spade with one hand while pulling with the other might be required but you'll get most of it without having to further disturb the surroundings. If it's more of a sticky clay soil I'd say it's probably more efficient just to cut a plug of about half spade depth as tight as you can (4-5" circumference - don't worry about cutting through leaves, they won't regrow) and then lifting the whole plug out before separating the root and then putting the soil back in the hole.
That sounds excellent. I've got a long thin one, but it isn't pointed.
I garden in old-fashion row style. I let the weeds grow in the paths and weed wack. They act a cover crop and it feeds the worms. You do need to till when flipping the beds otherwise root systems will become established. And when you till you have to rake out the root balls. Option 2 is to lay down carpet remnants in the aisles which will smother them. I let the seeds sprout to reduce the seed bank and then lay down the carpet or landscape fabric. Depends on if it is a quick crop like radish, lettuce, spinach, peas. It real nice walking down those aisles to harvest. :-)
So that's 80% of the solution. The final 20 is to do close weeding with and hand weeder. I use a decent amount of grass clippings on the freshly exposed dirt surface. This smoothers anything new while the plant gets establish (also supplies nutrients). The grass clippings soon degrade so slugs and pill bugs have no homes and the plant has a canopy enough to shade newly emergent weeds.
That was a great video! Thank you
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I use news paper and it’s good for two years,lay thickly ,water and a thick cover of mulch!
Good suggestion!