How can I kill weeds and grass in flower beds and around trees?
What are you best tips and advice for how to kill grass in flower beds and around trees?
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How do I clean out flowerbed overgrown with grass and weeds?
How can I kill a pecan tree 19" tall that came up in a flower bed ?
There are too many plants around it to try to spray Round Up and I can't pull it up.
So as to not kill your trees or flowers, all you can do is hand pull. It sucks I know.
Hi Mr. Will,
I used a combination of hand pulling and vinegar with a few drops of Dawn in my garden this year. You just have to be careful not to get vinegar on your plants that you want to keep. My garden had a lot of "dirt" areas that were just growing weeds. Those are the places where I used the vinegar. I was also very careful to just spray directly on the weeds. Wishing you the best.
The BEST killer I know is paper several layers or cardboard over lapping. You can cut a hole for each flower to plant. Cover it all with mulch.
I'm not sure there is anything you can use over a large area like lawn that will not hurt the tree underneath. You can rent a turf cutter that will cut away the lawn. The other option is to cover the entire lawn with a tarp, cardboard, or boards to kill the lawn that way.
Weed management can be a multifaceted approach.
Some recommendations include the following
I have resorted to placing pieces of cardboard out on top of weeds or unwanted groundcover-in the flower garden— on top of weeds but not covering flowers and placing mulch on top. It works very well for smothering out unwanted vegetation in that area as well as around trees.
Management
Cultural control in ornamental beds
Prevent going to seed; hand pulls easily.
Do not compost plants with seed heads.
In Lawns
I would add 'patience'. Weeds are weeds because they are tough and can grow anywhere.
When mulch does not work, try spraying plain water on the weeds when under direct sunlight, to burn the leaves.
That does sound cruel, doesn't it?