Keeping your vegie patch weed free during winter
Parts of your Vegetable garden will ultimately not be planted with any crop during winter months. This leaves the ground open to weed growth.
If you have backyard chooks or rabbits you can build a fence around your vegie patch and let the chooks or rabbits roam freely. They will keep the garden weed free and leave a good source of fertilizer for the spring season.
You could also add old hay, kitchen scraps, seaweed etc if you have chickens or just hay if you have rabbits. This will be consumed and/or scratched into the soil improving soil structure.
Approximately 4 weeks before spring planting stop adding any additions to allow weed seeds from hay or unwanted seeds from vegetable scraps (like tomato seeds) from remaining in the soil and sprouting in an unwanted area.
May 4, 2010
Tags: chook manure, hay, kitchen scraps, rabbit manure, seaweed Posted in: Uncategorized
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