How to Weed Less in Your Raised Beds
by
ChiWei
Besides just hating to weed, now I can't always bend over to weed, so I thought I'd try a new method of growing veggies in our raised beds this year - just throw the seeds wherever, and dense enough so that anything that does come up should be edible. Did it work out?
I threw down a bunch of mixed salad and herb seeds, and for the most part, I could just go in and forage whenever we needed something for dinner. Have not weeded that much in this bed.
Looks like a mess, but actually ended up pretty productive. Will need to experiment with seed types next year.
The other bed - more weeding because seeds were spread out more, especially in and around the tomato plants.
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Great idea and this method works very well for non~enclosed raised beds. We use a similar method by overseeing section of our rows. We. Use raised beds by adding additional soil to our 3ffoot wide beds. They're about 20 foot long, I just mark off a section with a hoe and overseed that area with whatever we want to grow. It also allows me the option of inter planting companion plants and flowers exactly where they can do the most good. The hard part at least at first is thinning the overseed area. But with a bit of teeth gritting, an iron toothed rake makes short work of that. Many of thined seedlings we use salads and soups, our Boakshi buckets and the big compost piles. We never lack for plenty of safe organic materials for composting. We also use builders straw as mulch,so there are few weeds to contend with. The seedlings cone so quickly and so thick most of weed seeds are smother out.
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I think this is a great idea! Our tomatoes are too close this year but I am getting a good harvest from them... I think you may have something going!
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