Too Many Weeds In Your Garden?
Dec 29, 2017•24 min
Episode description
Too Many Weeds?
Do weeds crowd out your food before you know it?
My Story - Weeds took over my garden!!!
Test your Soils pH in Multiple Areas
Alkaline Soils = Nitrates = Weeds & Annuals = Vegetative Growth
Acidic Soils = Ammonium = Perennials = Reproductive Growth (Fruit)
Obviously super acidic or alkaline soils exist and are neither suitable for most garden vegetables. You can change their constitution as long as what made them acidic or alkaline is not a constant presence or constantly accumulating. Compost which is soil life & organic matter acts as a universal pH buffer.
What To Do
Compost
Compost Teas & Extracts
Cover Crops & other Nutrient Accumulators
Legumes & other Nitrogen Fixers
Ripping/Broadforking
Chop & Drop
Sometimes Earthworks
Sometimes Biochar
SO Don’t Pull Your Weeds: Chop & Drop them! WHY?
They Accumulate the Nutrients Lacking in that Soil
They Generate Organic Matter
You can Chop BEFORE they Form Seed!
It Leans into the Succession
Use Compost & Grow Better!
Grow Abundantly, Learn Daily, & Live Regeneratively,
Matt Powers