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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1914 



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Getting the Best of the Weeds 



MAKE up your mind to one thing if you have 

 not done so already. Either you have got to 

 be boss in your garden or the weeds will. They per- 

 severe eternally; so must you. 



It is a real vexation of the garden, this problem of 

 the weeds. The only way out is to get ahead of 

 them, and keep ahead of them. Start, like them, 

 with the fourth month of the year; for all the weeds 

 that you pull up in April you will not have to pull 

 up in May — and so on until the snow begins to 

 fly. 



Another April bear-in-mind is this; weeding and 

 cultivation go hand in hand, one process, as in 

 hoeing, sometimes implying both. Not infre- 

 quently I weed with the left hand and cultivate 

 with the right, using a trowel lightly or a forked 

 weeder. This is a good thing to do early in the 

 season; the first weeds are not allowed to get a start 

 and the soil has the necessary spring stirring at the 

 same time. Hoeing, where the unplanted intervals 

 are large enough to permit, is, of course, more 

 expeditious and not so hard on the back. 



Weeding, in general, all goes back to one thing 

 — the early start. If this were made the rule 

 more than half of the weed problem would never 

 exist. Pull up weeds casually, whenever you are 

 wandering around the garden, and you do an incal- 





Use the trowel point to loosen the roots of the weeds. 

 The pull up the whole plant 



culable amount of work without apparent effort. 

 Then, by keeping always ahead of the weeds, or at 

 least keeping up with them, the problem is not a too 

 troublesome one in average circumstances. 



When the weeds do get fairly ahead of you, as 

 they have been known to do in pretty well regulated 

 gardens, there is real toil ahead. Weary hours 

 down on your knees then, perhaps, or wearier 

 stooping before you can feel that the battle is yours. 

 Too many, in such a crisis, make matters worse by 

 delaying action until the weeds have begun to ripen 

 seed. Nothing could be worse, especially in the 

 case of certain of the grasses of the genuinely pesky 

 kind. Pull the weeds with each hand if they are of 

 the come-easy sort : if they resist — some grasses 

 do — lift them with a trowel held in the right hand 

 and at the same time pull with the left and shake off 

 the soil from the roots. 



If this can be done without making the garden 

 unsightly, pulled weeds may be left on the ground to 

 dry up or placed around plants as a mulch. That is 

 to say, most weeds can if there is sun enough to wilt 

 them and if they have no ripe seeds on them. 

 Grasses and some weeds, like the common purslane 

 and duckweed, are likely to revive if rain falls and 

 take root; so these, again if not seeding, would 

 better be consigned to the compost heap. 



After weeding and attendant cultivation, the 

 weed problem may be minimized by using a mulch 



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