Organic Weed Control as Garden Weed Control

You don’t need to apply the chemical herbicides for weed control as these chemicals will contaminate the soil and kill beneficial organisms. There are lots of safe organic weed control methods that will keep your garden clean. Both cultural and direct weed control methods work very well to remove weeds.

Mechanical Weed Control includes mowing, tilling, hoeing to destroy the weed plants or disrupt their growth. Once weeds are actively growing, mechanical methods should be applied periodically. This method is best for annual weeds and is very effective when weeds are still small.

Biological Weed Control uses organisms that attack weeds. The insects may not destroy the target weed, but reduce its ability to compete with your crops. Biological weed control is very effective in sustaining the balance of competition between weeds and plants, but it was difficult as there are not much documented successes.

Cultural Weed Control is used to adjust the weed infestation and growth conditions, include water, nutrients and suitable soil, allowing the crop to be more competitive against various weeds. Crop rotation (frequently rotating the growth of different crop families on the same soil) is applied for managing weeds.

Mulching is probably the greatest way to control weeds. This process installs a surface layer to exclude the light, and hence restricts weeds from growing.

Organic mulching could improve the soil and add nutrients. The mulch simply keeps the soil underneath moist, and plays as an insulator to keep soil cooler during the summer and warmer during the earlier spring growth.

Mulch is actually made from common ingredients in reasonable cost. Straw, wood chips, lawn cutting, newspaper, wood bark, geo-textile fabric and much more are very good mulches.

A video clip from howdini.com about mulching.