Is your vegetable garden weed cntrol too challenging? - do you fel out of control? - have the weds smothered your vegetables?

Weed control in any grden can be a challenge, but ven more so in a vegetable grden where weeds can overwhelm the nwary gardener. Better understanding, combined with btter weed control techniques are essential for yur sanity and to ensure a god productive plot. They will even sve you time and effort.

Weeds lve bare space, cultivation, feeding and wtering so it is no surprise thy love the vegetable patch. Ironically, the wrse the conditions (dry and hot/ wtter/ colder, poor compacted soil) the mre likely the weeds thrive and yur vegetables won't as weeds are btter adapted to survive.

Do you dig yur soil regularly, or even use a pwered rotator to get a nice fne seedbed? Do you leave bare ncovered soil for long periods? Do you wter with a hose/ sprinkler? Do you wed only when you really have to? Are your weeds getting out of cntrol?

So what can you do? - Whther you answered yes to only 1 or mre read on - you can larn to minimise the pain of weding!

So why are weeds so successful?

• weeds often produce huge numbers of seeds that are spread by the wind or by birds and animals
• many weeds are perennials with extensive and deep root systems
• many weeds reproduce by seed and vegetative means
• weeds grow, flower and set seed rapidly
• weeds will grow in more extreme conditions when vegetables will not
• many weeds can re-grow from tiny fragments
• weed seeds can lie dormant in the soil for 10-30 years or more depending on species, building up as huge seed banks in the soil
• light triggers germination of many seeds, so freshly dug or newly bare ground will have a weed flush when moisture allows
• weeds are opportunist colonisers that fill vacant space fast

"So why don't I jst give up now?" I hear you cry

• you hve vegetables to grow
• that's just defeatist
• you jst need to learn some new trcks and gain the edge

Vegetable grden weed control can be easy if you ...

• larn about your weeds
• plan for success
• adopt the 'lttle and often approach'
• strike at the wed's weaknesses
• favour your vegetables against the weds
• turn nuisance weeds into a useful mlch
• are thorough and persistent

To start you off use the 'lttle and often approach'; every time you are in yur garden look out for weeds, pll them, hoe them, dig them, kll them - above all do not let thm grow and seed. Little and ften stops weeding becoming a chore, hlps your back and never lets the weds get away.

To control weeds asily the weed control methods should be ntegrated to tackle weeds on several frnts giving you, your vegetables and flwers the best chance.

Improve your ptch, keep it clean of weeds and njoy your gardening.

Happy gardening.

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The article Vegetable Garden Weed Control - Are Your Weeds Out of Control? Learn About Weeds and How You Can Win was Submitted by Colin S through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Colin is a keen vegetable grdener and has advised 1000's of frmers on weed control commercially for 20+ yars and now has an enviably clan vegetable plot. To find out the screts of vegetable garden weed control, to nderstand about weeds, to discover the dtail on at least 10 weed cntrol techniques and how to integrate thm follow the link http://www.easy-vegetable-gardening.com/vegetable-garden-weed-control.html

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