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Weeding Your Vegetable Garden
from: Lawn and Garden MagicA freshly planted new vegetable garden is going to look bare. Vegetable plants will be tiny, or not even sprouted, and since the soil was recently turned and planting rows setup, there won't be any weeds growing as yet either.
Some people allow weeds to continue growing because they create green in their garden. Granted, some weeds are actually beautiful in their own right, and many gardeners can't bring themselves to remove a plant that looks pretty.
However, when growing vegetables in a garden, especially if you're growing the vegetables organically, allowing weeds to grow is likely going to create several problems.
The first problem weeds create is watering. Since weeds tend to consume a large amount of water, they'll likely going to steal water your vegetables need, which stunts the growth of your vegetable plants and they may not be able to bear anything at all for harvesting.
Weeds in a vegetable garden also create a major problem with nutrients. As they do with water, weeds steal the essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals from the soil your vegetables require in order to thrive and grow. If you allow weeds to steal all the good stuff, it's likely there won't be enough available for your vegetables to grow at all.
Finally, weeds are likely going to cause a major pest control problem. When weeds start cropping up in a vegetable garden -- especially if there's a lot of them -- they're going to attract tons of different pests and bugs. As you might expect, those bugs and pests will happily munch on the stalks, leaves and stems of your vegetable plants. Some of these pest will even start chomping into the growing vegetables, ruining them complete for human consumpsion.
Now, these are the reasons are exactly why you setup a vegetable garden with rows of mounded soil.
By setting up mounds of soil the vegetables grow on, water can reach their roots much faster. When you start watering the garden, water flow naturally into and fill up the low lying areas first. If you watch this process when watering you'll observe the water start seeping into the mounded soil at the sides, underneath the top of your vegetable plants -- where the roots are.
The other benefit of planting your vegetables in rows is for easier weed control. By spacing your vegetable growing mounds far enough apart, you can wander through every few days with your garden hoe and scrape out the weeds that have started growing in the lower lying areas.
Thus weeding a vegetable garden is a quick and easy task, as long as you pull or hoe the weeds on a regular basis, which means at least once a week. However, if you have a couple of minutes, do a quick pass with your hoe several times each week to ensure the weeds trying to invade your garden are eliminated.
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