Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Laura McKenzie" <laurabrownmckenzie@worldnet.att.net>]

Weeding.... I'm finding it handy to sow in strips, closer together, and in 
pairs, leaving a four inch strip open on either side that I can run a 
stirrup through quickly.  So instead of planting my spinach 6 inches apart 
and spaced evenly, I plant the spinach in strips 2 deep about 3 inches apart 
with a four inch strip on either side that I can mulch heavily after I use a 
stirrup on it.

Right now some of the weeds I am contending with here in Alabama are 
bermuda, fuzzy chickweed, henbit (Lamium amplexicaule), ground ivy, Carolina 
geranium ( Geranium carolinianum ), violets and Johnson grass. Lamb's 
quarters also come up but are easily smooshed. Senna has been a problem in 
the past as I didn't get to it until it was hard to pull.

  I'm finding that every year, weeding gets easier as the soil gets better 
and there is less to weed.  I didn' think I'd ever get control of the 
Johnson grass but I only have a small patch of it left.  Bermuda is very 
tiresome still and violets can be a pill if you don't catch them quickly.


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