Important Notice - How to keep weed free!

What's worst than having heaps of weeds in your vegetable garden. They seem to come out from nowhere, and are extremely resilient. They compete with your vegetable plants for the very nutrients that currently exist within your soil. The more weeds you have, less nutrients are left for your plants.

Here is how you can take a few steps and reduce the weeds.

You will need newspaper, mulch, a fine spray hose nozzle and a rake.

Firstly lay two layers of plain printed newspaper over your topsoil. The newspaper acts as a weed barrier. You could use the commercial weed barrier but newspaper is fine. The newspaper is porous enough for water and nutrients to pass through.

With your newspaper spread out over your entire garden, use your garden hose and set your nozzle to mist and lightly water the paper.

Next cover the newspaper with a black mulch mixed with compost. This is a good mix because it will decompose into your garden and will add nutrients to the soil. Layer the mix over the newspaper at no less than two inches (50mm) thick. This provides weight to keep the paper down to cover it. This impedes weed growth while retaining water moisture in the soil, especially when it gets hot during the summer months.

Following the information above you will eliminate a majority of weeds that would appear in your vegetable garden. To keep up the pressure on the weeds, do a five minute scan every day or so to pull one or two weeds out. Easy! This will keep your garden 100% weed free.