Whitewater
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I need some ideas . . .
The patch of land that I'm going to put veggies on (and where I grew veggies with good results last year) is only about 1/4 reclaimed. That's the part that I physically dug up by hand last year so that I could plant 6 zukes, 4 pepper plants and 2 tomatoes. They didn't take up all that space.
This year I want to expand the garden and use up ALL my space. I have already bought seeds and started the warm weather plants, so I have to make this happen somehow.
The trouble is that whoever owned our house in the past did precisely what I did, and in the same spot! The other 3/4 of my veggie patch is TOTALLY overgrown with weeds and heavy grass and is matted so bad with the growth of year's past (seriously, there's about 6" of hay-like stuff . . . ) that you can't even see the actual ground. We're talking thick, dense weeds. This is clearly because nobody has actually used it in years, probably for decades. I mean, there were *trees* growing in it! (At least, there were until my neighbors cut them down . . . )
I pulled the biggest weeds that I could find (also leftover branches, obviously from some sort of small tree cutting in the past) today and tried to clear out the hay-like stuff, but discovered that there's a weed in there somewhere that has little bitty stickers and they REALLY HURT when you grab them. Ow! That made me stop trying to pull the stuff and rethink this whole project.
We were going to rent a tiller from Home Depot or somewhere, but I looked at what they have and I don't think those tillers will make it through this jungle-ish mess.
So I'm thinking, it's time for a professional. But will they even be willing to try to till through decades worth of weeds?
Can a tiller even get through the weeds? Will I have to get rid of the weeds somehow first? (Which I don't know how to do, or even if that's wise for a patch that's destined to be a veggie patch . . . )
Help! Planting season is almost upon us and I haven't even got my garden cleared yet!
How do I get rid of all these weeds and get everything tilled? 'Cause seriously, there's no spreading compost on this mess . . .
Whitewater
The patch of land that I'm going to put veggies on (and where I grew veggies with good results last year) is only about 1/4 reclaimed. That's the part that I physically dug up by hand last year so that I could plant 6 zukes, 4 pepper plants and 2 tomatoes. They didn't take up all that space.
This year I want to expand the garden and use up ALL my space. I have already bought seeds and started the warm weather plants, so I have to make this happen somehow.
The trouble is that whoever owned our house in the past did precisely what I did, and in the same spot! The other 3/4 of my veggie patch is TOTALLY overgrown with weeds and heavy grass and is matted so bad with the growth of year's past (seriously, there's about 6" of hay-like stuff . . . ) that you can't even see the actual ground. We're talking thick, dense weeds. This is clearly because nobody has actually used it in years, probably for decades. I mean, there were *trees* growing in it! (At least, there were until my neighbors cut them down . . . )
I pulled the biggest weeds that I could find (also leftover branches, obviously from some sort of small tree cutting in the past) today and tried to clear out the hay-like stuff, but discovered that there's a weed in there somewhere that has little bitty stickers and they REALLY HURT when you grab them. Ow! That made me stop trying to pull the stuff and rethink this whole project.
We were going to rent a tiller from Home Depot or somewhere, but I looked at what they have and I don't think those tillers will make it through this jungle-ish mess.
So I'm thinking, it's time for a professional. But will they even be willing to try to till through decades worth of weeds?
Can a tiller even get through the weeds? Will I have to get rid of the weeds somehow first? (Which I don't know how to do, or even if that's wise for a patch that's destined to be a veggie patch . . . )
Help! Planting season is almost upon us and I haven't even got my garden cleared yet!
How do I get rid of all these weeds and get everything tilled? 'Cause seriously, there's no spreading compost on this mess . . .
Whitewater