How to get rid of the grass on the garden path

When paving garden paths paving stones, clinker bricks, various types of paving tiles and other similar materials are always tile joints that are covered with sand.After some time begins to appear between the tiles grass, often spoiling the beauty of the figure lined with tiles and even, in some cases, contribute to unsafe movement, so you need to get rid of all sorts of herbs methods at its first appearance on the site, whether it be track or bed.

Where are the weeds?

In principle, the weeds are all the plants grown without the direct involvement of the site owner, and in the wrong place for them.

reasons for the weeds:

• winds that carry the seeds on a fairly extensive areas;

• bird droppings which includes a significant portion of the seed;

• people carrying the seeds of weeds on the sole of the shoe;

• organic fertilizer used to feed crops, the seeds are also rich in weeds.

So, get rid of the grass will not work forever.However, with the newly emerging weeds begin to fight better at once, until they filled the entire area.In this context, the fight against weeds in the garden path should be carried out simultaneously with the destruction of unwanted vegetation on the entire site.

dependence on the acidity of the soil of weeds

Each type of seed corresponds to a certain acidity of the soil needed for germination and continued existence.Seeds, hitting a favorable environment for them, over time, begin to germinate.At the same time, another category of seeds is transferred further or remains in the soil, waiting for change to a more suitable for the growth of the level of acidity.

In this connection, on growing weeds at the site is easy to determine the type of soil:

• strongly acidic or sour environment is ideal for the spread of horsetail, plantain, Ranunculus repens, Polygonum rough, etc .;

• slightly acidic and neutral soil is ideal for woodlice, field bindweed, shepherd's purse, couch grass, clover, sow-thistle, bearberry, etc .;

• alkalescent environment for slumber white, poppy, etc .;

• alkaline soil promotes rapid growth of nettle, wormwood, quinoa, colza, alfalfa, etc.

For a more reliable determination of the degree of acidity of the soil, you can use popular method:

• take 6-7 sheets currants;
• boil distilled water;
• pour the leaves and cool;
• dig a hole depth of 10-15 cm at the site where it is required to determine the acidity;
• lower lump of soil taken from the bottom of the excavated pits in ostuzhennoy solution;
• follow the color staining solution.

resulting in the reaction of shade corresponds to a certain level of acidity:

1. Green - neutral soil.
2. Blue tint - slightly acid soil.
3. Red - a high level of acidity.

If the soil corresponds to an acidic environment, along with the immediate start of weed control is to hold the soil deoxidation neutral composition, because it is acidic soil becomes difficult to output a hotbed of weeds that have developed root system and good resistance to most chemicals.In addition, acidic soil is the root cause of poor harvest.

means for deoxidation soil

Raise plot yields and partly to get rid of herb inherent in an acidic environment, it is possible by bringing the soil to a neutral state.To this end, the following tools are used:

• slaked lime;

• dolomite flour;

• crushed chalk;

• wood ash;

• peat ash.

avoid harming the cultural fit, deoxidation is best done in the fall after harvest or in early spring.Thus any of the means is embedded in the soil to a depth of 15-20 cm. Doze of a particular composition depends on the acidity of the soil.On the garden path seams just sprinkle a small amount of borax or salt, which after a rain will penetrate deep into the structure of the tile seam.After 1-2 years, the soil will become a neutral composition.

methods of combating weeds

Along with adjusting to neutral soil structure, get rid of the grass on the site will use one of the following methods.

mechanical method

quite time consuming but necessary process comprising:

• soil digging - held a shovel or a pitchfork in the late autumn or early spring.However, use of fork when digging is the preferred option, because the roots are cut at a depth not, as in the case of using a shovel.In the process, all the roots are collected in one container, and at the end of digging burned to prevent the emergence of new weeds through vegetative propagation.

• Implementation of periodic weeding by hand or hoe occurs as grass growth.Home -Removes weeds before the seeds ripen, preventing further occurrence of weeds.At the same time weeding wet earth produces better results because the small roots are completely removed from the land.In plants with developed root system it manages to capture the deeper root, thereby undermining its immunity to the rapid germination.Removal of weed roots by gradually weakens weeds and nullifies the chance of a subsequent germination of new shoots.

• Hilling, loosening allows you to delete the newly sprouted weeds, bury borne seeds, preventing them shoot.

biological method

This method is mulching the soil, ie,coating the surface of the land needed breathing or preventing oxygen entry materials.

use of sawdust, straw, compost promotes the retention of moisture in the soil, regulation of land near the plant, nutrient enrichment temperature and regulating the composition of the soil acidity, although many weeds are able to break even through a layer of mulch is 10-15 cm.

Shelter sacking soil, black film or newspapers prevents access of oxygen to the soil, creating a "greenhouse" effect, in which almost all the weeds and their roots die.

Alternative

Before deciding herbicides various actions you can use folk remedies to get rid of interfering grass.The most common are:

1. heat treatment.Most of the plants are killed by watering them with boiling water.
2. treatment acetic essence consists in applying vinegar on the leaves of the plant with a brush.
3. Alcohol treatment.Mix the ethyl alcohol, and ordinary water, keeping the ratio of 1:10.Spray the plants can be all year.

chemical method

essence of the method is to spray plants malicious chemicals, using the following processing methods:

• selective action, such as Lontrel-300D, Etisso Rasen Vital UF, impact on individual plant species.Herbicides, accidentally hitting the crop plants are decomposed into non-toxic compounds, excluding the negative impact on the useful vegetation.

• continuous action, for example, Roundup, Tornado, Hurricane Forte, destroy all the plants that fall in the herbicide treatment zone.In this regard, continuous exposure to chemicals used in places devoid of culture crops, and depend on the plant species.

principle of the destruction of unwanted vegetation herbicides is as follows:

1. got on the leaves of the plant chemistry is moved along the stem to the roots.
2. 1-1,5 weeks weed leaves begin to turn yellow.
3. Within a month, the plant dies completely.

However, the treatment with herbicides, in order to achieve positive results, it is necessary to take into account some special features:

1. 3 weeks prior to treatment, the plants should not be subject to any other method of killing weeds.
2. Weather should be clear, windless, and the leaves of the plants should be required moisten or conduct the operation after the rain.

However, chemicals should be used with great caution, because the poison, destroying weed in small quantities still gets into the soil, killing the beneficial bacteria.

Therefore, choosing one or another method of destroying unwanted plant species, should know some of the biological properties of this weed.

Methods of disposal of certain types of pesky plants

Woodlouse

Many clutching his head when a few grass shoots woodlice: how to get rid?This is not surprising, because the process of seed maturation occurs in just 1.5 months, managing to give a few generations in a relatively warm period of the year, with one such plant is capable of throwing at a time up to 2500 seeds.In addition, the seeds of woodlice are fairly resistant to harsh winters, so warming appear first shoots of grass.In addition to seeds, wood louse is easily propagated by stem located on the nodes.

measures to get rid of lice:

1. Conduct soil deoxidation neutral composition as Mokrice requires an acidic environment.
2. To minimize humidity places woodlice study because she loves much moist soil, and too dry environment contributes to the destruction of the weed.
3. Timely weeding, preventing the maturation of seeds.
4. weed weed destruction by burning off the field.

woodlice, however, the seeds of perfectly stored in the ground for 25-30 years, so if you have an environment conducive to its growth, annoying weed again oblyubuet site.

Birch

Mokrice Similarly, a strong reaction from the private owner of the site cause hatched shoots of grass birch: how to get rid?Unlike lice, optimal locus of birches - dry, slightly acid soil.The great advantage of the fitness of the plants to various weather conditions is the location of the roots at a depth of 3 m. At the top of the destruction of bindweed, new buds are formed on the roots, so that the weed begins to sprout again.

Measures against birch:

1. Application deoxidizing composition of the soil.
2. digging with most thorough removal of roots.
3. Periodic weeding, contributes to the gradual depletion of the weed root systems.
4. With the defeat of the large land birch can sow the seeds of the mustard weed and eventually disappear.

Destruction birches as any weed, is a temporary phenomenon.At entering the territory of the plot birch seeds, coinciding with the favorable soil for their existence, it will reappear and have to start fighting again.

Lawn grass

compared with birch, woodlice get rid of the grass is much easier, because the root system of the grass rather poorly developed.In addition, the lawn grass requires slightly acidic, moist soil, so tender grass without periodic watering eventually die herself.

measures to eradicate grass:

1. Creating alkaline composition of the soil.
2. Mulching by hiding black film.

Moss

In many garden paths is quite common moss.The path covered with moss, is unsightly, unattractive appearance.Moreover, on such track slipping easily, especially in wet weather.

reasons contributing to the formation of moss:

1. Poor drainage.
2. Shadow.
3. constant presence in conditions of high humidity.

Control measures:

1. site processing solution of vinegar diluted with water 1: 1.
2. Improve soil drainage.
3. If possible, provide access to ultraviolet rays, for example, cutting the branches of trees.

If you do not eliminate the causes of moss, then for any method of treatment, he will appear again, so the improvement of footpaths should initially take care of good lighting selected for the seat track.

Thus, it is difficult to get a definite answer to the question, a hotbed of the weeds in the garden, how to get rid?A variety of traditional methods of combating various types of weeds, along with traditional recipes opens up opportunities for carrying out their own experiments.However, any weed at favorable coincidence of the conditions of existence again oblyubuet piece of land suitable for it, so you need to always be ready to re-battle with unnecessary vegetation.