FMF6 3 Steps To A Weed Free Garden

Every year, my goal is a weed free garden. And every year, I fail.  This year, I have a plan.  3 easy steps that I am going to follow that I think you can follow too!!

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Wire Hoe from Never Sink Farm:  https://www.neversinktools.com/collections/wire-hoes/products/proletariat-hoe-without-wood-handle

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Transcript

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Thank you Bonnie and welcome everyone to another episode of five minute Fridays I'm today's episode. I am sharing with you my three-step process for a weed free garden this summer. Now that's always my goal. My goal is always. A weed-free garden as I think it is for every gardener. And there comes a certain point where sometimes it just feels like we lose, not just the battle, but we lose the war. Well, this year I've got three simple steps that I'm implementing and I'm competent that if I stick with these three steps, I'm going to have a weed free garden. At least I'm hoping that I will. So step number one is that I am committing to spending 10 minutes every day in the garden. Weeding, that's it, 10 minutes every day. And I think that that's going to really help me stay ahead of the weeds. Now, a lot of times, folks, that really is my problem. It's just finding time to get up there because a lot of times what I do is I get up there and then I find myself engrossed in weeding something that I don't really enjoy doing. Which therefore ends up making it. So it's easier for me to kind of push it off. And so then when I do get up there, I have to spend a lot more time than I would like. So if I spend just 10 minutes a day in the garden, weeding, I think I'm going to be able to stay ahead of it. Today I went out and spent 10 minutes in the garden and I found that I was able to weed over half of my raised beds in 10 minutes. So my feeling is that I am going to be able to stay out ahead of things. If I just invest 10 minutes every day. In weeding my garden, but if I'm only going to spend 10 minutes every day, weeding my garden, then I need to do it as efficiently as possible. So step number two of my plan was to invest in tools to help me weed more efficiently. Now, last year, you may remember that I bought a Japanese sickle home, which did work well, but I found a couple of problems with it. Number one is that it's a little bit short. So that means that I cannot reach as far into the raised beds as I would like with as much precision as I would like. And number two, because it is a little shorter. I have to bend over to use it and let's face it. Folks not getting any younger. And my back doesn't necessarily care for that. This year. What I am trialing is something called a wire hoe. Now I bought it from never sink farm I will have a link to the Japanese sickle hoe, as well as a link to this wire hoe that I'm using the Japanese sickle hoe link is an affiliate link. The never sync farm is not, uh, just in the spirit of full disclosure, but I am trialing the wire hoe from never sink farm and folks right now. I am really, really liking it. It's on a long handle, just like a regular hoe, so I can really reach far out into the garden, but it has different size attachments. So that depending on the, the crop that I am weeding, I can really get precise. So really right now I'm liking it. This is not a full-on endorsement. I've only been using it for about three, four weeks up in the garden. But right now, folks, I am really, really loving this, a wire ho from never sink farm And so that's step number two in my plan. Step number three is. To prevent weeds from ever germinating. Now that's the whole point of the Ruth Stout bed. If I use, Hey, like I'm supposed to, when the Ruth Stoutbed, it makes it very difficult for the weeds to. Get established. And when they do it is much easier for me to pull them out. And so this year I am committing to using mulch more in my raised bed. Something that I have not done all that well in the past. So my three steps are simply this number one 10 minutes a day in the garden. Weeding, that's it. And I'm setting a timer on my phone. 10 minutes are up. Boom done gone. Find another, task to do. Number two, I have invested in some tools to make that 10 minutes as efficient as possible. And number three, I am committing to using mulch to prevent weeds from ever starting in the first place. Hopefully you find this helpful. And if you have any suggestions on establishing a plan for a weed-free garden, I'd love to hear them from you. This week's journey quote of the week comes from Oliver. Goldsmith. Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. All right, folks, we will catch you on next week's five minute, Friday.