Comments on: You’ll never have a garden path without weeds

By: Four-square garden: Part 2

Four-square garden: Part 2 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:37:00 +0000

[...] paths in particular required regular attention: every manner of weed and perennial seemed to germinate enthusiastically in the gravel. For several [...]

By: Nicky

Nicky — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:45:11 +0000

I have weed free paths. But that means I have hard-packed dirt paths, and it is a big vegetable garden. Since I use this wheel hoe to weed the garden rows, I just also use it to scrape the surface of the paths as I walk the thing out to the different garden rows. Very efficient!

By: Eve

Eve — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:45:13 +0000

haha not going to move again Yvonne! I’ve learned to live with the weeds. When you live in the woods like me you just kind of accept them. Some of them are even kind of pretty!! Hope your garden is plentiful this year….with flowers!

By: Salix

Salix — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:27:14 +0000

Hi Yvonne
Ah, the weeds! The only good thing is to know that (especially in a city garden) you’ll have fewer and fewer weeds as you keep pulling them before they set seeds, and when you keep your garden beds (and paths too) mulched well.
A country garden – that’s something else.
I will go and get myself a weeding knife as I never had one and I can see that it is more practical than using the garden fork in certain areas.
Lene

By: Kathy from Cold Climate Gardening

Kathy from Cold Climate Gardening — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:11:48 +0000

And anyone who’s seen weeds growing in the cracks of a concrete sidewalk knows that’s not a perfect solution, either!