An Easy Guide to Organic Weed Control

 

Feed the crop, not the weeds:

Using commercially available synthetic weed control Herbicide-options?

Beware!

You might experience irreversible damage to your well-nourished plants, animals, and the environment, ground and drinking water contamination, and even cancer and devastating birth defects among your loved ones!

Go Organic!

Weeds? The Story!

• Many of these annoying plants we end up plucking from our garden beds are pioneer plants.
• That means it’s their ecological job to restore imbalanced soil to a state of health.
• This is why many weeds either host nitrogen-fixing bacteria – for example, clover, trefoil, and vetch – or accumulate particular mineral nutrients like thistles, dandelions, or plantain.
• They share these nutrients and organic matter with the soil when they die, feeding the soil bacteria and nourishing the soil food web.
• They also support healthy soil ecology by exuding nutrients through their roots while they’re alive, as their determined taproots break up compacted soil and improve tilth.

Weeds are generous givers! Farmers have struggled with the presence of weeds in their fields since the beginning of agriculture. Weeds tend to decrease crop yields by increasing competition for water, sunlight, and nutrients while serving as host plants for pests and diseases. Since the invention of herbicides, farmers have used these chemicals to eradicate weeds from their fields. Using herbicides not only increased crop yields but also reduced the labor required to remove weeds. Read more