How to weed your garden - expert tips
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- When and how to weed your garden, the real truth about weeding without chemicals, weeding with a hoe and the best weeding equipment. Plus top tips from experts, bloggers and UA-camrs, including Mark Lane Designs, Laetitia Maklouf, Alex Mitchell, The Skinny Jean Gardener, @CharlesDowding1nodig @Gardenninja @LizZorab Jack Wallington and the Two Thirsty Gardeners. Find out the real truth about weeding and the easy ways to do it.
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This is a fabulous video. I love that you've also included contributions from other channels as well. Well done indeed :)
Thank you!
As this is the pinned comment i'll share here that in order to search Google more accurately, you need only use the correct symbols.
For example, if you search for "weeding" (including the "__" symbols) it will only return results which exactly include the term weeding. If you type "weeding" -wedding, it will also remove all results including the word wedding.
This is known as boolean search logic, if you wanted to search it to find out more about this. Hope this helps someone!
I am a new gardener at the age of 53, trying to make up for lost time. I find your videos a tremendous source of information and very pleasant to watch
I just love Alexandria and her humour and practical no nonsense approach! Incidentally her advice is sterling!
Thank you so much!
Hi Alexandria. I'm a professional gardener myself. I love your channel. It's so informative. An additional way I've found to be the best way to decrease my weeds and/or weeding by least 75% is by using a cheap serrated steak knife and cutting the top of the weed just below the soil surface then cover with mulch or compost. I don't leave any foliar growth above soil level so my weeds can't photosynthesize and dont grow back. I never pull out weeds. There are billions of dormant weed seeds underground and around weed roots. If you bring the soil up and disturb it you've just exposed all these weed seeds to the sun and now they will germinate. Disturbed or bare soil=weeds. This approach works wonderfully. 😊 Thank you!! 💖
Very good tip, Will try it.
That’s the way I weed.
Thank you. I love how you promote other experts ( maybe other influencers wouldn’t do it fearing losing followers). I think your confidence comes from your experience, knowledge, love gardens and over all, you are aware how much the way you choose topics and edit them are helping many people around the world. I’m from Japan, even though the climate is different I learn a lot from your site, thank you.
Thank you! Japanese gardens are so interesting and have quite an impact on our gardening style
Really nice. Love how much you collaborate with others and introduce us to new people to follow.
Im newish to gardening and I’m trying to go for the reclassify/give nature a space in my garden. Would never trust my children to weed- my daughter has a habit of tipping plant pots upside down on the raised beds and announcing “Sand Castle!” Shes two and loves getting her hands dirty.
Sweet!
Yes to native plants (aka weeds)and especially those that feed pollinators and us. You are blessed if you have dandelion, chickweed, and clover. Just say no to chemicals and plastic. So much better (in my experience) to use newspaper and cardboard in place of landscape plastic with applied composted leaf mulch on top, or any mulch. Fabulous video.
For those times when a weed killer is necessary, I have had great success applying it with a paintbrush, which spares the surrounding plants from overspray damage. Thank you for very enjoyable content!
That's a good tip.
Chockablock full of useful info again Alexandra, thank you so much for inviting me to participate.
You're welcome, really good tip of yours about focussing the weeding where it really needs to be.
I live in a city, and this year I decided not to remove the weeds growing in the sidewalk cracks. Until last year, the house across the street had been empty for years, and untended, and the back yard was a paradise for little birds. Now that they don't have that resource, the seeds of the little sidewalk weeds are important to them. Lately, there have been PSAs warning against feeding bread crumbs to birds of all sorts, because their appropriate food is seeds. And it's a delight to see the tiny birds hopping around their inches-high "farm."
Loved your intro! Had me smiling! Sometimes it's hard to find the topic you're looking for on the internet. Also found the therapy information interesting with the microbes assisting in our serotonin production. Nature has such a beneficial way of providing for everyone!
Thank you!
Thanks for your informative videos. Tip for weeding. I bought very cheap hand forks & leave 1 in every bed so that if I see a weed when I'm passing by I can remove it quickly without getting my hands dirty.
That's an interesting tip!
I am one of those gardeners that irritate my husband and daughter. When we go for a stroll in the garden I have to bend down and pull weeds or pick up sticks!😣🙄
Martha Yoder 😂👍
I did that at a wedding reception. It was at a beautiful old home converted to a wedding venue and there were gardens. And one had a weed.
@@dudswoo 😂 Sounds like me. I pull weeds in garden centers.
I just LOVE how gardening UA-camrs just see each other as resources and colleagues rather than competition! Such a positive collaborative online space 😁😁
Love the intro and the distinction between weeding and wedding 😂😂
Thank you! I appreciate your way of teaching, assuming we are brand new to gardening and providing us with enough info to "catch us up" if we are behind on other instruction or videos. I also appreciate you sharing other good informative videos and books! Wonderful content!!
You are so welcome!
Very informative as always. It can be fun to miss a weed and find out that it is a plant that you like. I had this happen with wild Ageratum. I had been pulling it up for years and one time I missed some. That's when I discovered it has a lovely blue blossom that blooms late in the season. Since then I have spread it around the garden for late season color. Durham, NC, USA
Thank you!
Im alone in my place since march 8, that intro on googling weeding was epic. I laughed so hard thanks. What serious research you do, i love your attitude! Thanks
Thank you! I hope we all get some better news soon and are able to move more freely but safely.
WOW this is a great video! So informative with lots of resources to check out. Well done with all the effort you put into it! Thanx so much!
Thank you!
As you say, working in the garden does make one feel better. I also have about one thousand square meters of woods at the back of my middle sized garden. In looking for ways to improve immunity researchers found that people who spend time in the woods each week, a forest 'plunge' have improved immunity. The studies need to be expanded to assure that the effect is not anomalous, but so far so good. I feel guilty about how happy I have been due to this horrid virus. The air on the outskirts of Paris where i live is clean for the first time in decades. The French used leaded gasoline up until fifteen years ago when they replaced it with diesel fuel. Disgusting, both of them. The skies are blue with puffy clouds and the garden is exploding with colors like never before. Kill the virus and save the biosphere by doubling the tax on petrol. As for weeding: Bloody hate it.
The clean air is certainly an interesting side effect. Thank you.
I love your videos including how you always end them with the most sweet, lyrical goodbye!
My go-to mulch is living. Densely planted evergreen groundcovers like periwinkle (Vinca minor) and sweet violets have gotten rid of nettles, thistles, and bindweed in our garden. It does take several years for the groundcovers to get established, but eventually they become robust enough to snuff out all weeds. Our vegetables are planted very close together in block beds. Early on in the season, some weeding is required, but soon the veggie's own leaves block out sunlight to the competition.
That's a very good point. Thank you.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I have also always used periwinkle but to my shock and horror, I have discovered that half my vinca is actually wintercreeper. I live in Virginia where it is a problem. At this point, I'm not sure I can save my beautiful rhododendron and azaleas. As I now try to pull up the well-established wintercreeper, everything is getting pulled up in the process. Gardening advise would be appreciated, but at this point I think I need an exorcist.
For anyone intending to use weedkiller. It's more practical to apply weedkiller with a course, larger droplet spray. This means less air pressure within the spraying unit. It is much less likely to drift onto nearby, cherished plants. A good tip also, is to initially get a feel for any new weedkiller applicators spread and handling using water only, spraying onto a hard surface to literally get a visual example of it's drift.
Thank you, that's interesting.
I do two things that cut my weeding down to 15 minutes per week once the plants are established. I rototill my soil once in spring and then again in the fall to incorporate grass clippings and a bag of compost per garden box. It doesn’t take long for the green grass clippings to break down, and the compost enriches the soil and helps it become lighter and looser. I put 24” rebar at all 4 corners of the boxes ,and cut 1” flexible irrigation pipe into 8ft. Lengths and thread them over the rebar to make hoops. This accomplishes 2 things as I put 6 mil clear plastic over the hoops to warm the soil earlier in spring and the plastic over the hoops keeps weed seeds floating in the air from landing in the grow boxes. I use the high density planting method so each box is packed with plants and plants grown from seed, so again when I need to remove the plastic, the plants keep floating seeds from landing on the dirt, so there is very little weeding to be done. Watering is also easier because I can flood the box as needed with a wand on the end of hose. Hope this helps.
I have an acre of garden here in Normandy. This is laid to traditional English country cottage garden and a very large coppice-fenced vegetable and fruit garden. We also have a business which involves looking after other peoples! Some interesting tips here but I have a few things to add.
One thing that i didn't hear mentioned was WHEN to weed.a complete bed. By that I don't mean time of year...which is mentioned...I mean the condition the soil is in. We have a light clay soil which can veer between being claggy and slippy if too wet or hard as concrete when too dry. neither is good for weeding. There is an optimal soil condition which makes pulling the whole weed out easier....otherwise it breaks off and you are back to square one in no time. In my experience it is better use of energy to wait till better conditions so you can remove the whole weeds and their roots.
I do 'patrol' my whole garden every day and always make sure I have a couple of hand tools with me to remove anything that has sprung up unnoticed. (at the same time as i snip off dead heads as i go etc.
Lastly....allowing your husband to weed the path because 'everything that grows there is a weed whether it is a weed or not' isn't necessarily a good idea. Many of my clients have large areas of gravel paths etc and so i know that, along with weeds, lots of plants settle into the gravel and it is a terrible pity to waste them. I planted a new border entirely stocked from geums, lavender, rock-rose, aubretia, bell-flower etc etc which had self-set in gravel.
Great video! My parents always thought me that a "weed" is just a plant we haven't found a use for yet.... That mind set saves you a lot of time and energy, and makes you appreciate nature on an all new level.
So true!
My Mom loved dandelions as they were so nutritious. My neighbors frown on my growth but they are such cheerful reminders of finding value in what others dismiss as worthless. We ate them regularly growing up. My neighbor treat their yards with chemicals s I d not trust mine are not impacted by ground waters and over spray😥
Thank you so much for this video- it was packed full of advice and useful practices. I love your selection of 'weapons' as well!
Glad it was helpful!
The one weed I leave alone is alkanet. It seeds from uncultivated gardens either side of mine. The bees go crazy for the nectar in the small, pretty blue flowers, especially in early spring when there is very little else about. The bonus is that the plant is relatively short-lived and easy to pull up.
I do pull alkanet out, but that doesn't deter it, and as you say, the bees love it.
I randomly searched for a video on weeds and stumbled upon this. I have a love-hate relationship with my garden. The humorous opening is classic. Who would think the subject of weeds could be such a pleasure? I'm a bit more motivated to go outside and try to tackle this! A sincere thank you!
Thank you!
Exceptional presentation on variety of wedding (🥴) hints, tricks, habits or alternate views! I love that you spent a good amount of the video showcasing other gardeners styles or hints. Plus you interspersed their clips!
It provided a thorough cover of the topic that saves the reader tons of time, plus all gardeners enjoy more gardening channels!
I subscribed for your willingness to share other channels you follow!!
Thanks so much! 😊 It's great to hear that people appreciate hearing about other channels.
What a wonderful video! Just when I think I know all about weeding I realize there is so much more to learn! 😊
Thank you! I'm just trying to make myself do some every day....not quite succeeding at the moment, though.
👌👍❤ I am 80 yrs old Just retired from work but now courting the garden. Gardening is enjoyable but it is like dealing with a difficult partner. needing to keep with all difficulties in this partnership buy hoping for the happy ending. Happy ending does happen. Loved all the tips. Thank you.
Thank you and I agree!
I am SO glad I came upon these videos! So informative & practical &delivered in such a delightful, friendly way! Thank you Alexandra.
Thank you!
what about flame weeding with acetylene torch type equipment ... have you ever tried that
Anna S. R. P. Think of all the wildlife you burn too. I have used it but stubborn dandelions are still resistant
I always find it's easier to weed after a good rain...especially in harder clay soils like mine😊
Wonderful video. I need extra help- I fill 4 brown recycling bins with bind weed in Spring and again in summer and again late summer. Some roots are over a metre long. It’s worst among my roses; they are climbers in a terraced bed with a Cornish stone wall in front. This is where the roots begin and I can’t get at them. Any advice very appreciated.
I think the absolutely honest answer is that bindweed is a pig to get rid of. If you are able to cover the whole bed with a light excluding mulch for an entire season, you will knock it back, then you have to stay on top of pulling it out regularly after that. But not many of us want to cover our borders for a whole season. You could perhaps try laying cardboard with mulch on top around the roses to exclude some light to the roots then pull out the bindweed as soon as it appears around the edges. See this video on No Dig gardening for flowers ua-cam.com/video/MqfFOdup8Wc/v-deo.html - good luck.
Very interesting and useful information, thank you!! I can only garden in containers, so I can only hand pull the weeds, and I do end up leaving some alone, especially the ground covering ones. I've been doing some research on the weeds, seems as if there are a few benefits to them, as long as you keep them somewhat controlled.
Have a wonderful Sunday!! ☺️
Thank you!
My mother was a wonderful gardener & she also had a habit of picking out weeds when she saw them. A word of warning she pulled one & fell back breaking her scapular! She was ill at the time but old habits die hard.
Thank you so much very informative xx
I’m so glad I’m watching this! I wish I would’ve watched this a few months ago before my garden was overrun by weeds! I have a lot of work to do now
Excellent video. Easy to understand and well planned. Thanks!
Great vlog. Really there's very little information out there about the skills of successful weeding. Regarding weed controll; yes keeping an eye on edges and boundaries is essential, particularly lawns, hedges, the foot of fences and neighbouring wild grass verges or neglected ground which usually are infested with creeping perennial weeds.
Many new Gardeners don't understand the difference between annual and perennial weeds because they haven't been informed.
There is a fair amount to learn about the subject but once broken down into separate headings/topics it's all quite easy to take on board.
The problem is that there are very few Gardeners in the media giving sound advice about this less glamorous yet necessary aspect of Gardening.
Well done for tackling this much neglected subject. Great start and I'd like to see you make more videos about weeding because so many keen new Gardeners are put off because they become overwhelmed by the 'task' (doesn't have to be) of weeding of their gardens.
Once under controll, I agree that the strategy of little and often is best and, weeding can be very satisfying giving a sense of achievement.
The Middle-Sized Garden Horticultural Advisor, Thankyou again.
A dirty little secret is, some of us enjoy weeding! (But don't let it out...)
I'm inside, taking a break from weeding, and thrilled that I found your You Tube channel and this excellent weeding video! I was just telling my husband that I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the weeds. And our very large lawn is certainly not only grass -- more and more weeds every years. I'm trying to be OK with this for the most part. In fact we plan to plant red fescue and Dutch White Clover to create a "bee lawn." Thanks for all the links and introductions to other gardeners who share their expertise. I've subscribed to your channel and look forward to following along with you! Stay well!
So nice to read about someone going for a "useful" lawn rather than the standard useless one! Good luck with a pollinator lawn, that sounds fun. Prairie Nursery, in Wisconsin, has a mix of fescues that forms a no-mow lawn of long grasses that lay down and block out any weeds, and only needs mowing three times a year. I'm in favor of switching to flowering plants, myself; but anything that takes you away from the standard "perfect lawn" is a wonderful thing.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Funny, I had that experience also. I kept saying no Wedding. LOL
Thank you so much for this video. I'm subbed.
I just leave the weeds in my garden. I love telling people about the weeds. Eg Herb Robert/death, come quickly. I love the pink flowers . Dandelions and borage . I don't pull a weed I can't identify
Comfrey/knitbone. Calendula I have truly declassifiied most of themas herbs.
I love those names - I hadn't heard Herb Robert called Death Come Quickly before.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden. A descriptive name as it was used to stop blood flow centuries ago.
Mulch helps with weeding tremendously... I weed regularly especially easy when you have a large patch that only bulbs sprout from, I then know all other seedlings don't need to be there, unless! one looks interesting!😄
Absolutely.
Once upon a time as I was weeding I noticed one small weed with delicate, feathered leaves. I decided to let it grow a while to see what it looked like later. It didn't seem to do any harm, growing politely in its space. In spring it bloomed with tiny yellow flowers. After a couple of years it made a lovely large mat, sqeezing out other weeds. I decided it was doing so well in its dusty, dry spot, I took little plugs of it and planted them a forearm's length apart in a dreary, dusty pathetic excuse for a lawn. Then I weeded between the plugs as they slowly increased in size for three years -- and became a sturdy lawn-like area that needed no mowing, was drought resistant, crowded out most other weeds, and could be walked on. The wind had blown in creeping sedum!
Another great video! Loved the funny introduction. I’m the wild-about-weeds sort because many weeds have pretty flowers or berries, so I even collect seeds from weeds I find growing in the street, haha.
There are weeds I love, like toadflax, and ones I hate like winter heliotrope...
google, dandelion OR crabgrass OR clover. If you capitalize the operator OR you'll get more than you can handle. From Illinois.
I will!
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden You know how they say we all face the same challenges....isn't it reassuring to know that Chicago and UK gardeners around the world can bond over weeds?
It's so funny when you learn English watching this video😂 I use Polish and we have two very different words describing these two things: weeding= odchwaszczanie, wedding= ślub😉 Alexandra, I think I will remember word weeding😍
Going to research the hori hori knife.
I really like the fact that you give a very well balanced video.
I share my own opinions with the folks in the last 10 mins....... most so-called weeds are so pretty, so diverse, and most importantly, so vital for wiildlife. Buttercups, Daisies, Forget-me-nots, Red and White dead nettles, Speedwell. ....the list goes on and on.
The REAL weed in my garden is Couch grass!! Can't stand the stuff! It's all through my borders. But even then, I leave an 10" wide grass border underneath my neighbour's border Leyland hedge. The hedgehogs love it, as they can snuffle around for slugs, and the Palmate newts, and the toads love it too, as it gives a nice damp, shady area for them to hide.
I'm weird ... I don't mind weeding and i also use a Patio Knife , its perfect.
Nope a big screwdriver is
best
Yes me too!! I enjoy weeding - so satisfying 😊
Thank you sooo much for such a practical and well informed advice on all things weeding.
I've now got an area in my garden that i thought of as full of weeds but I've let it grow this year and I'm very surprised how lovely it is.
And the wildlife are very grateful too, I expect.
Thank you and the contributing you tubers. I'm really not a middle sized gardener because i have 6 acres, but some of it is wooded so I have to live with weeds. I usually get out the gas powered equipment and go to town chopping. In the cultivated areas i pull them out, but now I'm going to look for the hand tool you use. Our garden centers will be opening next weekend in Michigan and I can hardly wait. Thank you again and I'll be looking up the guests you tubers.
Thank you!
Really nice video! But leave some Ground Elder. It is fabulous for your joins and delicious in Salads!
Thanks Alexandra this such a great channel, you always bring the community together & I love connecting with the other youtubers. Your videos are always very timely
Thank you!
Oh well put together - very useful advise for gardeners of all experiences, take care, Hugh 😊👍🏼🌿
Thank you, hope you're well!
Excellent tips. Thanks so much. 👌🌹❤️😘
How, please, do you get rid of nut grass/nut sedge? I brought in some horse manure to fertilize my garden, and with it, came the nut grass. 🙁
I would suggest covering with light excluding material if you can do that for a season, then followed by regular hand weeding to clear up any survivors. If that isn't practical, then regular hand weeding is probably the only option. But it's certainly a stubborn one.
I am very pleased that you mentioned using cardboard as a mulch, much better than black plastic as it will biodegrade and not leave you with black plastic to dispose of. I just spotted that your black plastic looks like it will be reusable at least for a while.
Hi Alexandra, thanks for this video and all your tips, and also for recommending other good UA-cam gardening channels ... have subscribed to them all. My preferred method for weeding is to dig them all out by the roots, but I don't have a huge garden so it's less daunting, and because I've been persistent over the years it now is so much quicker, and now I actually enjoy weeding.
Thank you!
Thank you for this video. I have tried a home-made solution using vinegar and also bought an organic weed-killer containing vinegar and neither took out the strong weeds. I was recently given 2 bottles of 20 or 30% acetic acid vinegar and a bottle of 70%, bought from a grocery shop. It was your comment about vinegar that encouraged me to look it up. I had no idea that it could be so dangerous - I was going to use it for pickling and weed killing! So, thank you for talking about vinegar.
The 20% acetic acid vinegar does work, and it's also scary. Before I bought an all-plastic sprayer to apply it to weeds in a gravel driveway, some friends who were visiting one very hot day had the idea to experiment with the vinegar and one sturdy perennial we were looking at by applying it with a paintbrush. That weed wilted so fast it took our breath away. Note: After spraying the driveway weeds in early summer for three years, the edges of the lawn where it had been oversprayed remained brown. So there is some redidual effect. Not glyphosphate, at least!
Thank you well done I enjoyed watching
I just subscribed. You did such a fabulous job with this video! Looking forward to seeing more of you 😊. Greetings from Wilmington, Delaware USA
It's a pleasure to watch to learn about gardening which I started recently. Your channel is encouraging more flowers to plant using garden tools. There's a super easy tool I've been using is a " homi" for gardening, weeding, planting, and harvesting not even using shovels.
You can buy at amazon or Asian market. I want anybody can try out they will be surprised and never get disappointed. Thank you always*¿*
Good timing. I’ve been trying to find motivation to do the weeds from between the pavers on the patio. Awful job, the sound of metal between the cracks. Have yet to find a good tool and very tempting to use herbicide. Usually end up ruining a kitchen knife.
I did try boiling water on mine, though it's hard to keep a kettle boiling while carrying it across a terrace. And careful not to burn yourself.
Common salt is good for patios. The bigger the weed, the more salt is needed. It causes something called ex-osmosis where the water from the weed's roots enters the soil instead of the other way round. No good for flower beds though as salt is non-selective.
I just LOVE your videos and advice. Loved the guest tips, too. Nice work ☺️
Thanks so much! 😊
Thank you from Canada❤️🇨🇦 I have a small perennial garden and I really enjoyed this video❤️🇨🇦
Greetings from Cleveland, Ohio. I just found this video and it's so helpful. I feel like I can go back out there and conquer the world, or at least the weeds in my garden. Thank you 🌱
My 80 year old father tended our 50 year mature garden until his recent ill health, I have since taken up the baton and didn't have much of a clue about what I was doing, I'm a new subscriber I've learnt so much from you, thank you so much you are amazing and very inspirational xx
Why did I not think of a Nisaku Hori Hori? We generally rely on a "Cape Cod" weeder for most of our flower beds, which works well for common weeds like purslane and dandelions. But we still get out the shovel with dock and pokeweed. This will be just what we need - particularly in tighter spaces - and will be great for dividing plants.
Glad it was helpful.
Purslane is edible. Great in salads & very nutritious!
@@kayjohnson5149 I think this might depend on your growing zone. In our vegetable garden, purslane is a real nuisance, due to its succulent nature and its prevalence (which may be due to tilling)
So many great tips in ONE VIDEO. Just perfect! Thank you very very much. It's is intensely helpful. Love it❤️
You're so welcome!
You always put a smile on my face, I appreciate your humour
Thank you!
Very well done. Often it is recommended to plant a ground cover for weed suppression. However, I have found the most obnoxious weeds take hold in the ground cover. One ends up with a larger job of ridding both from the garden.
I agree, and I forgot to mention that. But you are right, that bindweed gets in to even the most densely planted border.
I am in the process of ridding our garden with vinca my mother planted forty years ago!
Great intro! I'm a there and then gardener for weeds. But then I have a small garden so it's quite easy. I have no bindweed in my new garden - I had it in my previous garden. I found it an on-going problem. A weed and a plant🤗
Thank you!
So much information and tips in this video it’s one to rewatch. Thank you for sharing! This is my favorite video you’ve posted
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing, I have gardened for approximately thirty years, and over those years the garden has grown in size. I love flower gardens favouring English style. I now find myself changing plants to lower maintenance style, arthritis knee plays a big part in that decision. A question for you, what should or what do senior gardeners do to off set the lack of energy / movability to keep their gardens in check?
I think gardening in short bursts - 'little and often' - is probably the best strategy - and perhaps to look at planting low maintenance shrubs as you're already doing. I'm sure you already have kneelers or knee pads, which I have found very helpful. I don't know if you saw this video on knee and back pain, if not that might help: ua-cam.com/video/mCueffhgnts/v-deo.html But I know what you mean - I am always wishing I had more time or energy.
I’ll watch this video again!
Your garden is so tiny . Here we are in a two acre zone . Can’t stop weeding they grow so strong . Have wild carrots deep roots my hands are hurting .
Thank you so much for this video. I am a novice gardener and I’ve been wondering how to tackle the plethora of weeds in the garden.Lovely to hear from other contributors as well.
Glad it was helpful!
Just watched this, and instantly subscribed! Entertaining, and full of great tips, thank you!
Hi. Thank you for this interesting panel of expertise and advises. Weeding cannot be avoided but it can become annoying. Weeds are relentless and often win the battles!
This said weeding is part of gardening and it is better to find the way to “enjoy” this activity as the end of the video suggests. To me, weeding has been an easy and pleasing source of meditation….
Thank you!
Absolutely fabulous! Thank you so much for the varied, entertaining and extremely informative content. Hello from New Zealand.
Thank you for compiling this video, it has all the information in one place and saved a lot of searching about for me.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video, lots of information and helpful advice from experienced gardeners! Loved your intro! Thank you for all your effort and for sharing!!
Loved this video! I agree that my garden has mead my Corona time very manageable! I have loved the time outside in the sun and fresh air and am so grateful for the birds and their songs! What a gift to me and a wonderful therapy during the stress of this pandemic😎
This was absolutely fantastic! I love the way you share other gardeners. Will watch this again. So happy I found you. ❤️
Thank you for posting. At 2:18, I've discovered that spot spraying tender weeds with a non-toxic rust remover, such as Rust-Off (high acid vinegar solution), works well and doesn't poison the water table. Thank you. Liked and subbed. 💚
Thank you!
What a selfless, noble heart !!!! No words to appreciate yr deed . Love and gratitude from Sri Lanka !!! 🇱🇰
A fun and informative vid. YOU are a lovely lady
In addition to your years of observation, analysis, and reading, your delivery is so very well paced, relaxed, and without a trace of arrogance. So refreshing! So glad to have found you!
So many of my favourite UA-camrs in one video!!! 🌿👍
Thank you!
Thank you 🙏 I love pulling bind weed up, I also love the plant so It makes me smile both ways 🤗
It's very satisfying to get a really long root out.
Mayors tail is nightmare in my garden.........it's everywhere............forever using long screwdriver to dig deep & remove trailing roots...........
It is very invasive indeed. I'm not quite sure why I've been lucky enough to escape it so far.
Great advice. Thank you very much indeed! 🇺🇸😊
Thank you!
I love Charles Dowding!! He is the most brilliant gardener ever!!
He is, indeed.
This video took so much organizing. I really appreciate it.
What you were getting at in the end reminded me of something the American garden designer Tracy DiSabato-Aust wrote. I originally read Tracy years ago for her amazing work on perennial pruning, but the line I'm thinking of is to do with weeding. She said, "instead of calling it weeding, how about we just call it gardening." That stuck with me and shifted my attitude. If you really love working in the garden, weeding is simply another part of being out there.
Excellent point. I will remind myself every time I feel grouchy about weeding.
I use my old mountain climbing ice axe.
Your voice is so soothing💕☺
Liz Zorab thumbs up gal live and let live , !
Weeding is addictive!
Very nice summary on the weeding and it is practical. Good advice on benefits of being in the garden.
Glad it was helpful!