Comments on: Vegetables and Raised Beds http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/garden-and-home/vegetables-and-raised-beds.html A guide to green living Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:25:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: goo http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/garden-and-home/vegetables-and-raised-beds.html/comment-page-1#comment-200 goo Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:23:55 +0000 http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/?p=1051#comment-200 Thanks Bird. Yes I think that is what he meant by not overdoing the weeding, you've hit the nail on the head far more eloquently! Thanks Bird. Yes I think that is what he meant by not overdoing the weeding, you’ve hit the nail on the head far more eloquently!

]]> By: Bird http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/garden-and-home/vegetables-and-raised-beds.html/comment-page-1#comment-198 Bird Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:27:38 +0000 http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/?p=1051#comment-198 Your garden looks fab! Like you we don't use chemicals and so far all we've lost had been sunflowers - admittedly I was gutted when three lots got chomped one after the other, but that's all we've lost. Oh, the pigeons ate my basil seedlings, but hey I don't bear a grudge. Your drunk friend actually had a good point about the weeding though. Garden pests evolved to eat our native plants, and if you check them out lots of "weeds" do bear the chomp marks to prove it. Provided they haven't shaded out your crop, they can act as a pest decoy and living mulch that keeps moisture in the soil, and some are host to beneficial garden insects too. Or that's my excuse for having an underweeded vegetable patch. Your garden looks fab! Like you we don’t use chemicals and so far all we’ve lost had been sunflowers – admittedly I was gutted when three lots got chomped one after the other, but that’s all we’ve lost. Oh, the pigeons ate my basil seedlings, but hey I don’t bear a grudge.

Your drunk friend actually had a good point about the weeding though. Garden pests evolved to eat our native plants, and if you check them out lots of “weeds” do bear the chomp marks to prove it. Provided they haven’t shaded out your crop, they can act as a pest decoy and living mulch that keeps moisture in the soil, and some are host to beneficial garden insects too. Or that’s my excuse for having an underweeded vegetable patch.

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