Home and Gardening

Garden weeds are havens for many crop diseases. Weeding will not prevent all the diseases – especially those spread by the wind – but it will cut down the risk and keep the setting looking attractive for an added bonus. Garden weeds are now native plants and organic really does taste better. Garden weeds are an unwelcomed and unwanted guest in a garden. Calling them a guest is a real stretch of the imagination, a more accurate description would be a gatecrasher.

Garden weeds are hard to control because they grow rapidly, produce vast numbers of seeds, and spread aggressively by vegetative structures and/or seeds. There are several methods that should be used in a combined, coordinated effort to control weeds. Weeding will not prevent all the diseases especially those spread by the wind but it will cut down the risk and keep the setting looking attractive for an added bonus.

Garden weeds are collected a wheelbarrow at a time. In the East the annual vegetable garden clean-up happens after the fall frost. They produce vast numbers of seeds, and spread forcefully by vegetative structures (e.g. there are several methods that should be used in a combined, coordinated effort to control weeds; they include both cultural and mechanical methods.

Weeds are well intertwined with mankind as we cohabitate on this planet. Weeds can indicate soil deficiencies and help with the remedy, can provide cover for other crops, can stabilize the soil, some have insect repelling abilities, some provide beauty and fragrance while others are hideous and hurt. Weeds are not unwanted plants for practitioners of Ayurvedic and other traditional systems of healing. For them, weeds are potential sources of valuable life-saving drugs.