Linda- you are changing my life. I’ve been in a deep depression and you have not only inspired me to get out and get moving, but I am actually jumping out of bed to get into my yard that is now becoming a garden paradise. I can’t thank you enough!
Great to hear Maria isn’t it wonderful? to just be outside my husband is the gardener in the family but I am his shadow today good luck with your garden 🪴 Nina
Vinegar on weeds works too. And if you brush on black tea then vinegar w a piece of steel wool soaked in it overnight, on sanded wood or those baskets, it will oxidize and age them like magic. I’ve done several pine pieces of furniture that way and they look like Restoration Hardware driftwood now. Really fun.
Linda Vater In fact I’m on a hunt for an old wooden bench for my garden that I can do that too. I can not stand golden stained finishes, so I sand, then brush on black tea, let dry then brush on the vinegar w steel wool. It literally changes color right before your eyes! Then either a wax polish or water based polyurethane. They have driftwood stain color but in my experience it has too much of a bluish tinge to it unless you mix w brown which is hard to get right. So I like the oxidizing method better. Good luck, let me know how it turns out.
I've read the salad-type vinegar found at grocery stores isn't strong enough for weeds. You should look for it at hardware stores. I think it has a special name, unfortunately, I don't remember it.
Thank you Linda, brilliant on the hot boiling water for weeds, someone else told me the same but I forgot. No matter what your video is about I just love it, I feel like I’m also in your garden on a stroll. 😃
I've heard of using a mini torch for small weeds between bricks. The kind of torch you use in the kitchen to carmelize the sugar on creme brulee. It has a pin point flame.
I think that is a great idea. I started my garden journal in the winter of 2019 and I love going back to review it. This year I started making notes on which plants did not work in an area so I can avoid planting a favorite plant in an area just because I like it.
By the look of the leaves on the "mile a minute weed", it looks like a wild Morning Glory Weed. I've always done a lot of gardening too. I enjoy your videos because we can all learn from each other, since each of us has difference experiences to draw from. The weeds in my warm state are plentiful, the winter never gets bad enough to kill them out much. Thanks you have a beautiful garden.
Great tips! Thank you! Sometimes when I’m watering with a hose, I drown out the weeds as I’m pulling it out so that the root comes out easier. Seems to help, but I do have to be holding the weed at its base while pulling and watering/drowning it so that the whole thing comes out😅
Great tips! I will be using the boiling water tip for sure, thanks! Another place I use a bread knife is in my bee hives, it's great for cutting through bridge comb without doing too much damage, as well as for cutting off the caps to extract honey. It's also great for cutting foam for flower/craft projects. I like to pull those problem weeds after a good rain, they come out easier. I spray the weeds in our driveway (long and graveled) with vinegar on a day when it's going to be hot & sunny. I use a lot of mulch to help prevent weeds ( pine bark for flowers, pine straw for blueberry shrubs and tomatoes, wheat straw for raised veg beds, for our large in ground garden I use grass clipping without seeds) our pathways around the raised beds are deeply graveled for ease of pulling weeds, as well as in our greenhouse.
You have all the appreciation Linda for the great efforts you are undertaking. The work is not easy that requires a lot of patience and enough time. Excellent
Weeds are the bane of every gardener. Thanks. Just to share, if you live in Texas or where there is a Tractor Supply Co., they carry galvanized metal feed scoops, got a 4 qt one. Maybe a tad big but will use for MY gravel, my new obsession! Love you, Linda. I am outside every day because of you and right now north of Houston, it is 92 at 1:00, a cool August day! Ha! Humidity is the killer!!
Thank you for the suggesting of boiling water! I'm going to try this on our paver patio tomorrow, where the little bitty weeds are so difficult to pull!
The bread knife is sheer genius! The most effective weed control I have found for my crushed granite path is a propane torch. Burns the weeds out and they don’t usually come back. I get that horrible chickweed in my path.
I have a very easy way to age your shiny, new, yellow baskets. Make up some vinegar stain by putting an extra fine steel wool pad in a jar and filling it up with white vinegar. Every now and then, shake it up. The steel wool will rust and dissolve in just a couple days. Find an old brush and use the mixture as 'paint' for your baskets. No need to be careful or exact. The solution causes a chemical reaction with tannin in wood, so when applied to wicker (or any wood) it changes right before your eyes! The more you brush on, the darker it gets.
My sister recommends using asphalt roofing shingles as a sort of barrier to prevent weeds from coming up. I have an area in my front garden, next to my neighbor's driveway, where there's a thick crop of quack grass. No matter how often I've pulled it from my flower garden it returns like gangbusters in a couple years. So, this year, my project is to get rid of the narrow strip of lawn between my edging pavers and the neighbor's driveway, place shingles under the relocated pavers and mulch the expanded dirt area. I'm hopeful this will tame the best so my desired plants may thrive.
Hi! I have a basket hack. I paint wash new baskets. I use a Martha Stewart acrylic paint color called graphite. I get the paint at Michael's. I mix a little water with the paint then use a 1 1/2 inch to 2 inch chip brush to paint it on. You can use any color you like but, the grays give baskets an aged look.
I’ve mover into my childhood home because my parents passed but boy there is a 60 yo Trumphet vine giving me a battle. I killed the mother plant 2 yrs ago but it still pops up across 70’ away. Nice to hear that about country lawns. We are going to build on 2 acres next year and I wonder how I’ll handle all those weeds.😆
If you haven't seen Monty Don from Gardeners World, check him out. He has two acres in England and has the most beautiful garden, with different areas for different looks/purposes. He is amazing.
I have invasive weeds growing across my property line as well. I hate to use Round Up, and reserve it mostly for poison ivy. In addition to the boiling water trick (whichI love) I will sometimes line newspaper, brown paper bags, or cardboard under my mulch. If it's a forgotten corner of my yard, I even resort to spreading bagged grass clippings over newspaper to smother weeds. Weeds are my nemesis 😆
I just started using a weed burner that I got on Amazon to get rid of my weeds. It uses one of those small propane tanks. I have bermuda grass and binding weed which is almost impossible to get rid of. I'm hoping this does the trick. Love your videos!
Hi Linda, I always appreciate your tips, as they seem to arrive at the right time! I literally have to dig weeds from my lawn and gardens every single day. I try to mulch wherever I can and use appropriate groundcover however some types of ground-cover seem to travel into the lawn and then becomes a weed! I actually use a plastic dish pan or bucket for weeds and then transfer it to a paper bag for the yard collection waste (I live in the city) .The dish pan prevents any type of weed roots from dropping through into the garden and rooting. If I didn’t have such a large property I would not have grass.🇨🇦
Hi Linda happened to catch one of your earlier videos and you were talking about baskets it’s so happens I went and grabbed a basket out of my neighbors garbage can that she was having picked up by the garbage man and I decided to bring it home and try one of your tricks to have a basket handy and hung it on one of our larger trees out back. I love the idea keep sharing your ideas. thank you Nina
While in search of a natural weed killer for the driveway cracks....I came across a method I love that should be used away from plants you want to protect as much as possible....it is cheap table salt (which I haven’t used in many, many years but had to get for this project-and I went to the dollar store....50 cents per container). Pour salt in cracks and lightly water...weeds are dead and brown in one day. Then, you pull up the weeds. Weeds will never grow back reportedly....and this is true for the areas I treated. I did run out of salt. Epsom salt was not nearly as effective as a substitute and chemically is totally different....
Thanks Linda. I must admit that I use Round Up on my "neighbor's side of one of my flower beds, he has ZOYSIA grass, a total disgrace, because it likes to run onto the flower bed and as you know it is a "runner". So once a season I squirt the entire length and I don't have to do it until the following year. Yes, I spoke with the previous owner about it and the solution was for me to establish a flower bed to divide the properties, little did I know this grass is pernicious. It looks great in warmer climates but it stays beige/brown for a long time. ok enough of that, I am happy otherwise with the weeding issues, I'm learning to live with the wild strawberries and just pull them now and then.
I have 3/4 acre "lax" garden and I bought an LPG Weed burner. All good during spring but as it got hotter and drier on one day I set alight to a dying small boxwood near our gas bottles and then later heard a crackling noise and looked down and I had set alight to the burner gas tube!!! Boy did I move fast then. Understandably I have been a bit scared of it since then. Now I use roundup happily
I have used boiling water and find it to work well. I also mix a little dish soap with vinegar in a small spray bottle and keep it by my garden. Using a tight stream on the spray head allows me to hit a weed accurately without bending much. For really tough things like Virginia Creeper, poison ivy and tree volunteers, try stump remover distributed from an old dish soap bottle. A tree removal man gave me that tip. I’m currently fighting moles, just starting the battle.😭😡 Any tips? Loving your videos and garden.
Thank you, Linda. I really enjoyed this video. I also have been using the hot water technique for years. It even works on those very large dandelion weeds. You can watch them wither away before your eyes. I have great difficulty tackling onion weeds and can’t really use boiling water as the leaves are too thin and too close to valuable and precious plants. Any suggestions anyone. I’ve heard I can paint the leaves with vinegar. I also have a handy bread knife and use it to remove moss. But I really like the suggestion of removing sedum with it. 👍👍
I garden in Australia, in an area equivalent to zone 6. We have native bees , frogs, spiders and lizards that make shallow burrows and we cant always see the little opening. In the case of the frogs, there isn't one. I feel my options are to hand pull or starve the weed of photosynthesis by constantly removing leaves as they appear. the latter works well for onion weed . I used to dig it out, that just made it angry and it released millions of tiny bulbs. Now I pinch the leaves off as they clear the mulch. They get weaker each time.
Started watching you on utube this fall and love your videos. Sorry for your ice storm but yyour positive attitude is an inspiration. Thank you Linda for making this covid confinement bearable. I live in Southern California and love gardening. Judy
Hi Linda another great video today and thank you for the ideas. on the kitchen knife and the boiled water l will definitely be trying that on my stones in my garden. As l have have a problem getting them out.
Hey Linda, you at it again! Happy Friday!🤗 Weeds🧐, stop it Linda!🙅🤣 You make everything so smooth!🤭 Love it! I hope we can also get some of those baskets in your garden decor🥂😘
I laughed at the baskets! I too have baskets all over my yard and the new yellowish ones are banned from view until they have the aged patina. This is when I joke function follows form. I might have to share our common love of baskets in a future video. Now I’m off to go weeding with boiling water.
I'm not ashamed to say I do use Roundup concentrate when I'm trying to eradicate aggressive volunteer trees. I tend not to use the spray because it can go everywhere. I have a foam brush I dip into the concentrate (I use the measuring cap as a vessel) and paint on the freshly cut tree trunk. I've also painted thistle this way and you can almost watch the pernicious weeds die. I'm curious about your artificial turf. It really looks real. Where does one find a retailer? Does it have to be professionally installed? What's the life expectancy when it is in sunlight all day? Are there some weeds that will try to pop through it? What about drainage during heavy rainfall? Will mud ooze up? Does it fade? I guess that's all my questions. Haha!
Great wisdom in this video to use on a lot of my weeds! I do have the worst nightmare in some parts though......purple nutsedge in my ornamental beds 😞
Hi Linda, I love watching your videos. We live in southern Wisconsin and I have a question for you. Can we prune and shape Japanese maple now or should we wait for fall.? Thank you for all the tips.
I always enjoy your videos Linda! What is the potted blue cypress type topiary in the background in the background at the end of this video? Do you have a video on how to prune it?
Hi Linda. Luv your videos and am always eager to see the next one. May I ask, are the bricks in the pathway full size or are they pavers? Do you remember your source?
I think you call that bind weed, a big mess her where I live. I have used a kitchen or steak knife since my husband used it to do something in the garage and I did not want to take it back in again, so use it now to cut out weeds and sometimes edge the flower beds but painted the wood part red so I remember to bring it back in or to not lose it. Stay Safe till the next one. Have picked up things from all your videos that I have used this year and for now on. Thanks
Our main weeding dilemma is how to get rid of the wild asparagus and fig trees that grow horizontally from between the stone walls of our garden. Is the only solution to take the walls down?
Love your videos. You have probably answered this question many times, but can you tell us the brand name and possibly where your purchased the artificial turf? How old is this turf? Does it ever feel hot and does it drain well? Thanks for sharing all the good tips.
If you go to LindaVater.com, and then to my blog posts, I did a very long explanatory post all about my artificial turf. Lots of pictures and detailed explanation of the process and the considerations I took into account :-)
My neighbor up the hill owns the house but only visits once a year. They let their grass and blackberries get waist high and go to seed. So we get grass seed rained down into all our flower beds, Along with massive blackberry vines sending suckers that root into our yard. And thistles. Hundreds of thistle. And on the other side we are about to be engulfed by a 20’ tall tidal wave of English ivy (which is a noxious weed here in Washington state) An elderly widow has lost control of it and it’s killing the neighbor’s trees, and it’s a constant overwhelming job pulling it and keeping it out of our trees. Any suggestions?
I am trying to get rid of bamboo. It is growing on the edge of a golf course into my garden. It was 100 feet long by 60 feet wide in my yard. I cut it all down but can not dig it up. I laid black landscape down with black mulch on top. And bamboo that comes up I been coating with round-up. Dies in a few days. Do you have any words of wisdom for me?
I have a question and can't seem to find the answer, I hope you have a technique to my question, so I have gravels in my yard too and I don't know how to blow away leaves from my gravels without blowing the small gravels, just wondering if you have a way to do it.
I’m so happy I recently found your channel!! Been binge watching your videos. Out of all the gardening people I follow, I’ve learn SO MUCH n the MOST from you!! Thank you for sharing all your tips n beautiful garden w us all! I look frwd to your videos. 🌱 🌸 🌱 💕
Linda I need to give you a heads up on a commenter. The one titled 10k subscribers without videos challenge is a robot. It needs to be blocked. Just trying to keep you safe. Love watching your videos.
Do you get any posin ivy in your garden? I can’t seem to get rid of it. I did have tons of trumpet vine but have it under control now. I like the boiling water idea and will be using that in my paths and rock area. Thank you.
Paula how do you know the difference between types of ivy? There are different looking versions of ivy in our garden but I woudn't be able to tell one from another. Thanks from Northern Ireland.
Posion Ivy looks a lot like Virginia creeper but it has three leaves and here in Kentucky it is bad. It is not in the ivy family that you typically think of that people use in their landscape.
Do you wear gloves to protect your hands in the garden Linda? I have serious allergies and use an EpiPen and have been advised to wear gardening gloves. I am going to clean my front garden and aim for a nice lawn like you describe. I have gardened organically here for 20years and am tired of weeding out things that come in from neighbouring gardens. I am now going to buy Round up to 'treat' each of these things so I can have the garden I want without killing myself...I am older than you and not so fit. I do enjoy your videos very much, thank you from Northern Ireland.
I do! Like you, I do much more weeding complements of what comes in from my neighbors, then from my own plantings :-) congratulations on gardening for 20 years organically!
Wow! Just found you! New subscriber here! Thanks for your videos. I think they will be very useful for me! BTW, where can I get the little cage tops for plants? I have chipmunks or something eating my small flowers. 😢
At 17 minutes in this video, you have a topiary behind you that looks like a blue juniper or arborvitae. What is that plant? I want to create that topiary!!!!
Linda- you are changing my life. I’ve been in a deep depression and you have not only inspired me to get out and get moving, but I am actually jumping out of bed to get into my yard that is now becoming a garden paradise. I can’t thank you enough!
So awesome !!
Great to hear Maria isn’t it wonderful? to just be outside my husband is the gardener in the family but I am his shadow today good luck with your garden 🪴 Nina
So happy for you - it makes me feel good that you have found healing ❤️🩹
Congratulations!
You would love a Hori Hori knife.
It’s great for loosening compacted rootballs before planting and many other garden jobs.
Vinegar on weeds works too. And if you brush on black tea then vinegar w a piece of steel wool soaked in it overnight, on sanded wood or those baskets, it will oxidize and age them like magic. I’ve done several pine pieces of furniture that way and they look like Restoration Hardware driftwood now. Really fun.
I will try this! I think you should come and do a demo video with me!
Linda Vater I wish! Live too far away! 😊❤️
Linda Vater In fact I’m on a hunt for an old wooden bench for my garden that I can do that too. I can not stand golden stained finishes, so I sand, then brush on black tea, let dry then brush on the vinegar w steel wool. It literally changes color right before your eyes! Then either a wax polish or water based polyurethane. They have driftwood stain color but in my experience it has too much of a bluish tinge to it unless you mix w brown which is hard to get right. So I like the oxidizing method better. Good luck, let me know how it turns out.
@@monawolfe Thank you, must try!
I've read the salad-type vinegar found at grocery stores isn't strong enough for weeds. You should look for it at hardware stores. I think it has a special name, unfortunately, I don't remember it.
I am glad that you upload almost every day!
I have Bermuda grass. I use Round up on a sponge to keep from spraying my plants. Just rub the sponge on the tendrils.
Thank you Linda, brilliant on the hot boiling water for weeds, someone else told me the same but I forgot. No matter what your video is about I just love it, I feel like I’m also in your garden on a stroll. 😃
I've heard of using a mini torch for small weeds between bricks. The kind of torch you use in the kitchen to carmelize the sugar on creme brulee. It has a pin point flame.
This might be silly but can you show us how you keep your garden journal? I also love your content and learn so much! Thank you and Stuart
Yes!
I think that is a great idea. I started my garden journal in the winter of 2019 and I love going back to review it. This year I started making notes on which plants did not work in an area so I can avoid planting a favorite plant in an area just because I like it.
Catherine Willingham yes we need a garden journal review!
Love your ideas.. your garden … garden tips….your thrift shopping …. Your style…And Stewart! Thank you both for sharing!
I was kinda hoping you would show how you use the tools you introduced at the beginning.
By the look of the leaves on the "mile a minute weed", it looks like a wild Morning Glory Weed. I've always done a lot of gardening too. I enjoy your videos because we can all learn from each other, since each of us has difference experiences to draw from. The weeds in my warm state are plentiful, the winter never gets bad enough to kill them out much. Thanks you have a beautiful garden.
Great tips! Thank you! Sometimes when I’m watering with a hose, I drown out the weeds as I’m pulling it out so that the root comes out easier. Seems to help, but I do have to be holding the weed at its base while pulling and watering/drowning it so that the whole thing comes out😅
Linda,
I so love your taste and style in gardening! Keep up the awesome work. Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦
I use boiling water for the weeds that grow in the cracks of my concrete driveway. Works like a charm!
Me too! Smart us😂🤣😂
Great tips! I will be using the boiling water tip for sure, thanks! Another place I use a bread knife is in my bee hives, it's great for cutting through bridge comb without doing too much damage, as well as for cutting off the caps to extract honey. It's also great for cutting foam for flower/craft projects. I like to pull those problem weeds after a good rain, they come out easier. I spray the weeds in our driveway (long and graveled) with vinegar on a day when it's going to be hot & sunny. I use a lot of mulch to help prevent weeds ( pine bark for flowers, pine straw for blueberry shrubs and tomatoes, wheat straw for raised veg beds, for our large in ground garden I use grass clipping without seeds) our pathways around the raised beds are deeply graveled for ease of pulling weeds, as well as in our greenhouse.
What a wonderful fountain of information you are! Great tips!
You have all the appreciation Linda for the great efforts you are undertaking. The work is not easy that requires a lot of patience and enough time. Excellent
Thank you! It does take a lot of time😉
Weeds are the bane of every gardener. Thanks. Just to share, if you live in Texas or where there is a Tractor Supply Co., they carry galvanized metal feed scoops, got a 4 qt one. Maybe a tad big but will use for MY gravel, my new obsession! Love you, Linda. I am outside every day because of you and right now north of Houston, it is 92 at 1:00, a cool August day! Ha! Humidity is the killer!!
Oh my goodness girlfriend! What a great tip! But please do be careful out in that humidity… You’re right, it is a killer!
Have you thought about weeding after a nice rain? It makes the chore a lot easier.
Never heard about the boiling water method. Interesting, thank you!
If I know I'm going to weed a section I water that area the night before to make the weed pulling easier
I always doing a morning walk in my garden and pick as I walk along.
Thank you for the suggesting of boiling water! I'm going to try this on our paver patio tomorrow, where the little bitty weeds are so difficult to pull!
The bread knife is sheer genius! The most effective weed control I have found for my crushed granite path is a propane torch. Burns the weeds out and they don’t usually come back. I get that horrible chickweed in my path.
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Thank you, will try the boiling water first then I will purchase a propane torch.
Thank you for the tip on using boiling water on the weed sprouts in between the pavers.
I have a very easy way to age your shiny, new, yellow baskets. Make up some vinegar stain by putting an extra fine steel wool pad in a jar and filling it up with white vinegar. Every now and then, shake it up. The steel wool will rust and dissolve in just a couple days. Find an old brush and use the mixture as 'paint' for your baskets. No need to be careful or exact. The solution causes a chemical reaction with tannin in wood, so when applied to wicker (or any wood) it changes right before your eyes! The more you brush on, the darker it gets.
I was thinking the very same thing!
My sister recommends using asphalt roofing shingles as a sort of barrier to prevent weeds from coming up.
I have an area in my front garden, next to my neighbor's driveway, where there's a thick crop of quack grass. No matter how often I've pulled it from my flower garden it returns like gangbusters in a couple years.
So, this year, my project is to get rid of the narrow strip of lawn between my edging pavers and the neighbor's driveway, place shingles under the relocated pavers and mulch the expanded dirt area. I'm hopeful this will tame the best so my desired plants may thrive.
thanks for your tips Linda , I love your garden and learning a lot. Stay safe. greetings from Toronto.
Hi! I have a basket hack. I paint wash new baskets. I use a Martha Stewart acrylic paint color called graphite. I get the paint at Michael's. I mix a little water with the paint then use a 1 1/2 inch to 2 inch chip brush to paint it on. You can use any color you like but, the grays give baskets an aged look.
Great idea!!
I’ve mover into my childhood home because my parents passed but boy there is a 60 yo Trumphet vine giving me a battle. I killed the mother plant 2 yrs ago but it still pops up across 70’ away. Nice to hear that about country lawns. We are going to build on 2 acres next year and I wonder how I’ll handle all those weeds.😆
They are ever so much more charming in a rural setting! LOL
If you haven't seen Monty Don from Gardeners World, check him out. He has two acres in England and has the most beautiful garden, with different areas for different looks/purposes. He is amazing.
suzetteccc thanks I will
@@suzetteccc He also has helpers to keep up with his garden rooms…
I’ve never thought to use boiling water. I’ll try that now! thanks!!
Love the boiling water idea.
Me too! Plus, I have biting ants right in those places in my yard!
I’m hooked on all your videos. Amazing amount of help. Thank you and God Bless.
I have invasive weeds growing across my property line as well. I hate to use Round Up, and reserve it mostly for poison ivy. In addition to the boiling water trick (whichI love) I will sometimes line newspaper, brown paper bags, or cardboard under my mulch. If it's a forgotten corner of my yard, I even resort to spreading bagged grass clippings over newspaper to smother weeds. Weeds are my nemesis 😆
I just started using a weed burner that I got on Amazon to get rid of my weeds. It uses one of those small propane tanks. I have bermuda grass and binding weed which is almost impossible to get rid of. I'm hoping this does the trick. Love your videos!
You go girl!
Awesome job love your yard and advice was very helpful because I share the same problem, thank you 😊
Hi Linda, I always appreciate your tips, as they seem to arrive at the right time! I literally have to dig weeds from my lawn and gardens every single day. I try to mulch wherever I can and use appropriate groundcover however some types of ground-cover seem to travel into the lawn and then becomes a weed! I actually use a plastic dish pan or bucket for weeds and then transfer it to a paper bag for the yard collection waste (I live in the city) .The dish pan prevents any type of weed roots from dropping through into the garden and rooting. If I didn’t have such a large property I would not have grass.🇨🇦
Large IS a lot of work!
Hi Linda happened to catch one of your earlier videos and you were talking about baskets it’s so happens I went and grabbed a basket out of my neighbors garbage can that she was having picked up by the garbage man and I decided to bring it home and try one of your tricks to have a basket handy and hung it on one of our larger trees out back. I love the idea keep sharing your ideas. thank you Nina
Never thought to use boiling water for weeds. Great tip.
Very helpful video for all gardeners 👍👍👍😊😊🤗🤗🤗🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Thanks dear friend 🙏🏿🙏🏿
I live in New England. Love to go an pull up weeds after a heavy rain, the roots come up easily.
Yes!
I've heard someone suggested a mini blowtorch, very user friendly to get at those tinys between rocks and bricks
I’m loving your arsenal of tools for your garden😊😊🇨🇦
Thanks Sweetie!
Hi Linda.😊 Thanks for sharing - I feel so smart because I too use an old kitchen knife along with other garden tools for weeding!!!
Terri Johnson me too, Terri! I cut up my zoysia grass turf with it when putting in plugs. It’s a life saver. 😊 Have a great day!
Because you are smart!
While in search of a natural weed killer for the driveway cracks....I came across a method I love that should be used away from plants you want to protect as much as possible....it is cheap table salt (which I haven’t used in many, many years but had to get for this project-and I went to the dollar store....50 cents per container). Pour salt in cracks and lightly water...weeds are dead and brown in one day. Then, you pull up the weeds. Weeds will never grow back reportedly....and this is true for the areas I treated. I did run out of salt. Epsom salt was not nearly as effective as a substitute and chemically is totally different....
Thanks Linda. I must admit that I use Round Up on my "neighbor's side of one of my flower beds, he has ZOYSIA grass, a total disgrace, because it likes to run onto the flower bed and as you know it is a "runner". So once a season I squirt the entire length and I don't have to do it until the following year. Yes, I spoke with the previous owner about it and the solution was for me to establish a flower bed to divide the properties, little did I know this grass is pernicious. It looks great in warmer climates but it stays beige/brown for a long time.
ok enough of that, I am happy otherwise with the weeding issues, I'm learning to live with the wild strawberries and just pull them now and then.
I have 3/4 acre "lax" garden and I bought an LPG Weed burner. All good during spring but as it got hotter and drier on one day I set alight to a dying small boxwood near our gas bottles and then later heard a crackling noise and looked down and I had set alight to the burner gas tube!!! Boy did I move fast then. Understandably I have been a bit scared of it since then. Now I use roundup happily
Thank goodness it ended well!!🙏🙏🙏
WOW this was a very interesting video. Thank you so much!
I have used boiling water and find it to work well. I also mix a little dish soap with vinegar in a small spray bottle and keep it by my garden. Using a tight stream on the spray head allows me to hit a weed accurately without bending much. For really tough things like Virginia Creeper, poison ivy and tree volunteers, try stump remover distributed from an old dish soap bottle. A tree removal man gave me that tip. I’m currently fighting moles, just starting the battle.😭😡 Any tips?
Loving your videos and garden.
I also like the boiling water idea, thank you. Also you're a dish, your husband is a very lucky man!
I love your boots! They look very comfortable. I've got a pair that are really too big, so I end up klomping around the garden.
Thank you, Linda. I really enjoyed this video. I also have been using the hot water technique for years. It even works on those very large dandelion weeds. You can watch them wither away before your eyes. I have great difficulty tackling onion weeds and can’t really use boiling water as the leaves are too thin and too close to valuable and precious plants. Any suggestions anyone. I’ve heard I can paint the leaves with vinegar. I also have a handy bread knife and use it to remove moss. But I really like the suggestion of removing sedum with it. 👍👍
I garden in Australia, in an area equivalent to zone 6. We have native bees , frogs, spiders and lizards that make shallow burrows and we cant always see the little opening. In the case of the frogs, there isn't one. I feel my options are to hand pull or starve the weed of photosynthesis by constantly removing leaves as they appear. the latter works well for onion weed . I used to dig it out, that just made it angry and it released millions of tiny bulbs. Now I pinch the leaves off as they clear the mulch. They get weaker each time.
Started watching you on utube this fall and love your videos. Sorry for your ice storm but yyour positive attitude is an inspiration. Thank you Linda for making this covid confinement bearable. I live in Southern California and love gardening. Judy
I use vinegar in a spray bottle, works well!!
Hi Linda another great video today and thank you for the ideas. on the kitchen knife and the boiled water l will definitely be trying that on my stones in my garden. As l have have a problem getting them out.
We all love your videos so much, have you ever considered designing a garden journal?
Hey Linda, you at it again!
Happy Friday!🤗
Weeds🧐, stop it Linda!🙅🤣 You make everything so smooth!🤭 Love it!
I hope we can also get some of those baskets in your garden decor🥂😘
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I think the weed is araujia sericifera -common names kapock, moth vine, in parts of Australia a pest and noxious etc
I laughed at the baskets! I too have baskets all over my yard and the new yellowish ones are banned from view until they have the aged patina. This is when I joke function follows form. I might have to share our common love of baskets in a future video. Now I’m off to go weeding with boiling water.
I'm not ashamed to say I do use Roundup concentrate when I'm trying to eradicate aggressive volunteer trees. I tend not to use the spray because it can go everywhere. I have a foam brush I dip into the concentrate (I use the measuring cap as a vessel) and paint on the freshly cut tree trunk. I've also painted thistle this way and you can almost watch the pernicious weeds die.
I'm curious about your artificial turf. It really looks real. Where does one find a retailer? Does it have to be professionally installed? What's the life expectancy when it is in sunlight all day? Are there some weeds that will try to pop through it? What about drainage during heavy rainfall? Will mud ooze up? Does it fade?
I guess that's all my questions. Haha!
So beautiful gardening video uploaded dear friend thanks 👍👍👌🤗🤗🙏🏿
I have the plant finder app to take a picture of the potential weed and find out the name. Helps me to identify if I should pull it out.
So smart!
Great wisdom in this video to use on a lot of my weeds! I do have the worst nightmare in some parts though......purple nutsedge in my ornamental beds 😞
Love it when you do more do and show.
I use a weed torch. It cost about $40 on Amazon and it’s my new best friend lol.
I need to check it out!
OMG, I thought I was the only one using retired bread knife !!! It works so well.
It is brilliant, right!!!
It is brilliant, right!!!
Hi Linda, I love watching your videos. We live in southern Wisconsin and I have a question for you. Can we prune and shape Japanese maple now or should we wait for fall.? Thank you for all the tips.
You could probably print it very lightly, but I’d hold off on any aggressive pruning until late winter early spring :-)
So beautiful and wonderful upload dear friend thanks 👍👍👌🤗🤗
I have Virginia creeper and trumpet vine. The birds love both, but im constantly fighting these beastie plants.
Lovely tour and information!
I always enjoy your videos Linda! What is the potted blue cypress type topiary in the background in the background at the end of this video? Do you have a video on how to prune it?
I have been using your ideas about controlling weeds.....I grow my garden "tightly together" and it drowns out the weeds
Have you mentioned bind weed - HELP from Hungary!
I think that vine is in the bindweed family. When do you use your weeding tools?
Hi Linda. Luv your videos and am always eager to see the next one. May I ask, are the bricks in the pathway full size or are they pavers? Do you remember your source?
Full size. Lowe’s!
I think you call that bind weed, a big mess her where I live. I have used a kitchen or steak knife since my husband used it to do something in the garage and I did not want to take it back in again, so use it now to cut out weeds and sometimes edge the flower beds but painted the wood part red so I remember to bring it back in or to not lose it. Stay Safe till the next one. Have picked up things from all your videos that I have used this year and for now on. Thanks
Thanks for letting me know! Garden on :-)
Our main weeding dilemma is how to get rid of the wild asparagus and fig trees that grow horizontally from between the stone walls of our garden. Is the only solution to take the walls down?
Great boiling water tip. Thanks!
I've heard that you can individual use a torch on weeds. Have you ever tried that especially in your gravel areas?
I have! but in my small garden a more basic approach works:)
That is bindweed you reference at 5:08.
Bindweed. Ugh! Round-up is good on poison ivy. I was curious to know how you store and organize all your pots. Do you have a video already on that?
Love your videos. You have probably answered this question many times, but can you tell us the brand name and possibly where your purchased the artificial turf? How old is this turf? Does it ever feel hot and does it drain well? Thanks for sharing all the good tips.
If you go to LindaVater.com, and then to my blog posts, I did a very long explanatory post all about my artificial turf. Lots of pictures and detailed explanation of the process and the considerations I took into account :-)
Linda Vater Thank you so much. i will check it out. Your yard is beautiful and it’s also fun to see your neighbors and friends yards. ❤️
My neighbor up the hill owns the house but only visits once a year. They let their grass and blackberries get waist high and go to seed. So we get grass seed rained down into all our flower beds, Along with massive blackberry vines sending suckers that root into our yard. And thistles. Hundreds of thistle. And on the other side we are about to be engulfed by a 20’ tall tidal wave of English ivy (which is a noxious weed here in Washington state) An elderly widow has lost control of it and it’s killing the neighbor’s trees, and it’s a constant overwhelming job pulling it and keeping it out of our trees. Any suggestions?
I am trying to get rid of bamboo. It is growing on the edge of a golf course into my garden. It was 100 feet long by 60 feet wide in my yard. I cut it all down but can not dig it up. I laid black landscape down with black mulch on top. And bamboo that comes up I been coating with round-up. Dies in a few days. Do you have any words of wisdom for me?
4:57 is it bindweed? stop it before it goes to seed. I think its related to morning glory based on its flower.
The mile a minute vine is bind weed. I cannot get rid of it.
You so wonderful as you are beautiful, ..... thank you so very very much for your wonderful insight and experiences!!!!!!
I have a question and can't seem to find the answer, I hope you have a technique to my question, so I have gravels in my yard too and I don't know how to blow away leaves from my gravels without blowing the small gravels, just wondering if you have a way to do it.
Nice 👍
I’m so happy I recently found your channel!! Been binge watching your videos. Out of all the gardening people I follow, I’ve learn SO MUCH n the MOST from you!! Thank you for sharing all your tips n beautiful garden w us all! I look frwd to your videos. 🌱 🌸 🌱 💕
What a kind thing to say! Thank you!
Ove your garden, you be safe
Love your garden, you be safe
Linda I need to give you a heads up on a commenter. The one titled 10k subscribers without videos challenge is a robot. It needs to be blocked. Just trying to keep you safe. Love watching your videos.
Thank you!!!
Beautiful.
Do you get any posin ivy in your garden? I can’t seem to get rid of it. I did have tons of trumpet vine but have it under control now. I like the boiling water idea and will be using that in my paths and rock area. Thank you.
Thankfully I don’t have any poison ivy!
Paula how do you know the difference between types of ivy? There are different looking versions of ivy in our garden but I woudn't be able to tell one from another. Thanks from Northern Ireland.
Posion Ivy looks a lot like Virginia creeper but it has three leaves and here in Kentucky it is bad. It is not in the ivy family that you typically think of that people use in their landscape.
Boiling water works well to eradicate poison ivy. (First hand experience)
I will try the boiling water. Thank you Sharon.
Go Stewart!
We can never get rid of our weeds because our neighbors yard and beds are nothing but weeds and it gets discouraging😊❤️😊
nice video
Do you wear gloves to protect your hands in the garden Linda? I have serious allergies and use an EpiPen and have been advised to wear gardening gloves. I am going to clean my front garden and aim for a nice lawn like you describe. I have gardened organically here for 20years and am tired of weeding out things that come in from neighbouring gardens. I am now going to buy Round up to 'treat' each of these things so I can have the garden I want without killing myself...I am older than you and not so fit. I do enjoy your videos very much, thank you from Northern Ireland.
I do! Like you, I do much more weeding complements of what comes in from my neighbors, then from my own plantings :-) congratulations on gardening for 20 years organically!
Wow! Just found you! New subscriber here! Thanks for your videos. I think they will be very useful for me!
BTW, where can I get the little cage tops for plants? I have chipmunks or something eating my small flowers. 😢
Kathryn Willette Start with Gardener Supply. Welcome. I have learned so much from Linda!
At 17 minutes in this video, you have a topiary behind you that looks like a blue juniper or arborvitae. What is that plant? I want to create that topiary!!!!
Bluepoint juniper I think is the one you’re talking about:)
Dollar weed - ugh, my nemeses!