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Eliminate Unwanted Plants without Toxic Poison
Whether you grow flowers or vegetables, eliminating "weeds" is a major task. There are all sorts of non-toxic techniques for dealing with unwanted
plants – use of black plastic sheeting, mulch, combination of plants, etc. Here's a technique I first learned from a Connecticut farmer when I was in graduate school. You can't believe this until you
try it. I might add that this same CT fellow taught me to drive a metal stake into the ground and twang it when I want worms for fishing. I was never without a supply of bait after that!
A few weeks after the last frost in your area, take a couple cans of regular beer out to the place where you plan to garden. You're not going to drink
it and contemplate your garden. No, take the beer and shake the can before opening. Open and spray it over the ground. One can covers a 4x6 foot area. That's all you do. If it should
rain soon afterwards, you'll have to do it again. Wait another 10 days and cover whatever plants have started to grow with black plastic sheets or very thick hay mulch. Wait a week and then remove
plastic and dig under.
The beer will stimulate the growth of whatever plants are in the ground and eliminate 90% of what otherwise have to be removed as weeds later on.
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