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Killing weeds without killing vegetables
Weeds are taking over my vegetable garden! I pull them all the time but they come back with a vengeance and are taking over more and more. What can I spray to kill them and NOT KILL my vegetable plants? I have cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and green beans. It is not a very large garden, but I get lots of veggies every year. This year though, I am having this problem and never have before. Help please! Thank you.
Posted by Patricia Jackson on June 27, 2014
Marianne's Response
You can spray the weeds with Roundup but any tiny drops that drift onto your vegetables will kill them as well. You can try covering the veggie plants with sheets, buckets, tarps or cardboard tents to protect them from any spray but if may be safer to just get a mulch of wood chips, pull the weeds, lay down newspaper between the rows and pile on wood chips. Often weed outbreaks occur when compost is used that was not heated high enough when rotting to kill off the weed seeds. Keep hoeing and pulling the weeds this summer and it will not be as bad next year. Keep growing, Marianne Binetti
