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Time to tidy up: Get weeding, mulching and deadheading before winter comes
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After a summer of volatile weather, gardens up and down the country blossomed and bloomed — often with weeds more than plants.
Now that autumn is on the horizon, many people will have more time to tackle their overgrown gardens. Peter Teasdale, plant architect at the Pavilion Garden Centre in Cork, says that although the volume of rain has certainly accelerated the growth of weeds, there are ways in which they can be tackled.
“For really voracious weeds like docks or thistles, you need to use a dock digger or use a long-pronged fork to remove their long cap roots — whereas surface weeds can be pulled or hoed out easily,” he says. “Another option gaining popularity is no-dig gardening, where you use a biodegradable membrane, like plain cardboard, to cover the ground and then apply mulch on top. This method reduces the need for frequent weeding. Alternatively, you can use organic methods like burning weeds off or using salt in cracks and crevices, to avoid the use of toxic sprays.”
Brian Burke, garden expert at Woodie’s in Laois, says this summer was the “perfect storm”, which has resulted in an “explosion of growth” for both plants and weeds. He says that mulching and ground cover planting are both very effective and under-used strategies to deal with the latter.
“An organic mulch such as cardboard, straw, wood chip, wood fibre, sawdust or shredded bark can be spread generously on beds to suppress weeds in the vacant spaces between plants,” he says. “In my experience, the finer wood fibre type mulches work best. A good mulch does several jobs — it makes plants look their best, controls weeds, retains moisture and will decompose slowly, adding nutrients to the soil below.
“The use of ground cover plants is also an
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