My husband asked me awhile back why I was taking up a whole raised bed just to set potato grow bags on when they could just as well be on the gravel along the fence like last year.
This is why:
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| See all those itty bitty weed babies? |
That bed, and two two others, were completely over run by purslane last year. Practically knee deep in it in between the corn stalks which is pretty impressive for a ground hugging plant. So I am blocking it out. Covering it up. And weeding the edges. That'll fix it! Or at least its one less bed to worry about this year.
I just go over it with a claw ever week or two and uproot all of those seedlings before they get big enough to require pulling
Less weeding is also why I use up all my old lettuce seed as ground cover.
No room for weeds in there!
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