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|    Frank Miles to Bob F    |
|    Re: No till organic    |
|    05 Mar 21 23:50:37    |
      From: pedicularis@mail.com              On Thu, 04 Mar 2021 20:23:20 -0800, Bob F wrote:              > On 3/4/2021 7:45 PM, Frank Miles wrote:       >> What's the magic trick to dealing with weeds if you want to garden       >> 'organically' _and_ are trying to go 'no-till' ? That is, without       >> spending all your time manually pulling them? And with limited       >> space I can't solarize without losing a year.       >>       >       > I just pull them as soon as I see them, and never let them go to seed.       >       > If you are starting from lawn, use a sod cutter to remove all the grass,       > and you can end up with a fairly weed free bed.              I _try_ to do that, but with ~1000 sq ft of garden it's easy to miss the       small ones. By now (30+ years) the selection pressure has led to the       smallest, fastest, most prolific weeds :(              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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