A few tips on how to get rid of weeds on the site

Weeds in your dacha site cause more damage than all pests and diseases combined. They take away light and nutrition from cultivated plants, drain the soil, pests and pathogenic microorganisms find shelter in them . Fighting the weeds on the site is not such a simple task. Weeds are fertile, seeds can be carried by water, wind, on your clothes, shoes and animal wool. At the same time germination lasts up to 70 years, and most perennial weeds easily germinate from small pieces of offspring or rhizomes. But there are ways how to get rid of weeds on the site, although it is impossible to do this forever. Methods of controlling weeds are many, and they sound pretty frightening: exhaustion, freezing, suffocation, drying. Although we constantly use these methods, absolutely not thinking about their names.

How to get rid of weeds on the site by freezing, strangling and exhaustion? And everything is quite simple. When you do a deep autumn digging in beds, then you use a freeze, as in winter the underground parts of the weeds freeze. And if you empty the site for two years will constantly harrow, then the rhizome of weeds is depleted. But the frequent weeding causes multiple cropping of plants at a shallow depth, that is, suffocation of the root system occurs. There is another method of how to get rid of weeds on the site - a provocation. The soil is prepared 14 days before sowing, and when most sprouts of weed plants appear , they are disposed of by surface loosening. Weeds should be weeded out before the development of a powerful root system and the ripening of the seeds. Dug up the soil better pitchfork, so that in the ground did not remain parts of the roots that give life to new plants.

In addition to mechanical removal of plants, there is treatment of the site from weeds with herbicides. The most commonly used means of Roundup, it minimally affects the environment. Still there are its analogues - it's "Tornado", "Utal", "Zero", "Hurricane". These preparations should be treated with weeds at the time of their active growth, when the aerial part is well developed. In this case, they should not be subject to mechanical treatment, since this prevents the drug from moving. After 15 days you will notice the action of the herbicide, now the ground can be loosened or dug up.

It is best to use the preparation "Roundup" in sunny hot weather. But it is no less effective at low autumn temperatures, only the weather should be dry and windless. In the Non-Black Earth Region, this is done before September 25, and in the south the term can be extended. At the same time, you can not be afraid of the negative effect of the drug on vegetable crops of the next year, as detoxification in the soil occurs quickly, the drug becomes safe for plants. There is another way how to get rid of weeds on the site. By the way, it is the most accessible and simple. For this, a black covering material is used, which can pass air and water, but will not transmit light. The material is laid on the bed, and in the right places, cross-cuts are made, into which you then plant the necessary plants. The weeds will be without light, exhausted and perish. To make the site look more decorative, the surface of the material can be poured, for example, the crushed pine bark. Especially it is useful for flower beds.

As you can see, there are many methods of getting rid of weeds, you only need to choose the most acceptable for yourself. But in most cases, all these methods are used in one area, and a comprehensive struggle with weeds will allow your beds to look neat and well-groomed.