Farming advice, tips or recommendations.?

I have a problem. I love gardening and it's great, I've planted many herbs, fruits and vegetables and they're coming out wonderfully, my problem starts will the evil weeds.





Every week, I take out the weeds that grow in the garden by shoveling out the roots, and the next week they're multiply in number. I do this almost every week and now it's becoming a pain in the neck, and the back. What am I doing wrong, is there some sort of fertilizer that I need to spread or is there something I need to do to get rid of them weeds permanently. It's becoming very annoying and I'm willing to try any effective method that's proven to work in the past.





If you have any advice, tips, tricks, recommendations or anything that might help me get rid of these weeds, I'll really appreciate it. Thank you in advance.





Ali.Farming advice, tips or recommendations.?
I have bad news and good news for you. Getting a garden to be mostly weed free takes about seven years.





Once a weed spreads it's seeds, you usually have enough for them to continue to germinate seeds over the next seven years or so.





Seeds do not grow up through the fabric weed barrier. You can plant your garden seedling, and then lay out the fabric weed barrier. That's one way of keeping your garden weed free.





Another is to mulch your plants heavily. Straw works quiet well. If the weeds are shaded out, they will not get a start.





You can go with some of the permaculture methods, and plant your garden plants in mixed groups of vegetable plants that will benefit each other, and shade out weeds.





You can use chemicals (I don't recommend this).





Are you using compost? You need to heat your compost pile to at least 150 degrees (F) to kill weed seeds.





If you have a large piece of property, you need to keep the weeds from becoming mature and blowing their seeds around.





Also, what are you problem weeds? Some, like kudzu have roots that travel forever, and just keep coming up.





~Garnet


Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 yearsFarming advice, tips or recommendations.?
You cn use a weed barrier fabric available at most garden supply centers You will have to cut hole in it for your desired plants but it will prevent the weeds from coming.


You also will get better control if you hoe very deeply and be sure to kill the weeds.


If you are using manure for fertilizer it normally contains a lot of weed seed and compost will contain weed seed unless the temperature in the composting process gets over 160 F
You've gotten good tips about mulching the dirt around your plants.





The reason you use mulch to cover the soil is that many weed seeds need light to germinate (sprout). Covering the soil means they can't sprout.





If you decide to use corn gluten (which halts germination of seed), apply it AFTER your desired plants are growing - not before, or you won't have any veggies ;-). Or start your plants in peat pots indoors and transplant outside.
weed block consisting of a very heavy straw layer in between the rows will help.


Newspaper in between the rows of plants. I like newspaper...


Also if you must use chemicals...All though I don't know why


Then corn gluten is the most natural seed killer.


Then Preen a real chemical is next. Anything else is no good for your health so I will stick to what I have mentioned
Adding fertilizer is not the answer. That would make the weeds grow as well as the plants you want. I am not really an expert but I have found a website in the Net which I think will be helpful for you. Here is the URL:





http://www.vegetable-gardening-online.com/
Weeding is part of the job. In Agriculture we say: ';Weeds and stupidity are difficult to combat';.





An advice is to apply mulch. Mulch will prevent weeds from growing and it will keep your soil moist so that you have to irrigate less. A good mulch is old newspapers, envelopes, shredded government reports and old leaves.





A very good mulch is a red plastic mulch. The red is reflected to the plants enhancing so the process of photosynthesis.





For weeding please use a combined hoe or a ';serfouette'; http://www.frenchgardening.com/tech.html鈥?/a>





It is the best garden tool there is and with the two dents you get rid of the weeds and you aerate the soil so roots will have air.





Good cropping and good health with a lot of wealth!