[Akroncooperative-news] Organic Weeding

[Lawrence Parker]

All good methods.  I still prefer using the Winter Rye; some of you had this put on your gardens last fall.  It's working wonderfully on our home garden.  You can plant right through it and just leave it growing around your vegetable plants - the rye's excretions only affect seeds so starts are just fine.  In fact, we ran a cultivator through the rye to break up the top of the soil, and then laid down our own compost for 1-1/2 rows, leaving 1/2 row without a compost barrier, and we now have two full rows of peas, harvested from last year's crop.  The rye didn't seem to affect the germination of the peas at all, which ran about 95%.

Neway, watch the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad727U4g2oQ); it will give you some ideas and how to do them correctly.  I'm not really big on the flamethrower method unless the weeds are jungle-bad.  To each their own.

Happy Gardening!

Larry

 Lawrence A. Parker
Executive Director
The Akron Cooperative
234-525-0543
http://www.akroncooperative.com/

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