Kitchen Garden

MANAGING WEEDS, NATURALLY

DIGGING DEEPER - GARDENING IN-DEPTH MANAGING WEEDS GET GROWING

As the temperatures creep up and the daylight hours extend almost imperceptibly, there is much uncertainty around the season ahead. Will we have a long, dry summer that will put a strain on our water butts or a wet one that makes us feel as though we never quite shrugged off winter? But one thing is guaranteed with the arrival of spring and the subsequent onset of summer: weeds.

With winter's complacency behind us, even if we haven't yet changed our clothes, it's time for the unrelenting struggle against our least favourite plants to commence. The only question is whether our power knock them back will outstrip their uncanny

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