Remove Weeds Without Harming Your Flowers

Gardening is a wonderful hobby and means of self expression that combines an outdoor activity, with the love of nature. Flower gardening matches your nurturing spirit, with the sights and smells of your flora of choice. It is, in parts satisfying, relaxing, and an indulgence in your creative inclinations. However, a common plague for flower gardeners is the sudden appearance of weeds and grass that creep in and take over our flower beds. While it may be tempting to apply a quick-fix, such as herbicides, the issue of killing weeds well requires a little time and effort to be done right, while keeping your flowers safe from harm.

Aside from being unwanted guests, weeds generally "crowd" flower beds. They absorb water and nutrients from flowers and stunt their growth. Weeds warp the precise well-kept image that gardeners' work so hard to cultivate by adding nothing to the bright colors and fresh smells of the flowers they leech off of. Weeds can become extremely invasive if allowed to flourish in your flower bed, often wiping out flowering plants and taking over the plot.

Attire and attitude are important when one sets about the task of de-weeding their flower bed. Be ready for a long day under the sun; with gloves to pull out the smaller weeds, and tools such as prongs, trowels, and weed pullers where necessary.

Moist ground is the easiest to work with, as you firmly pull out weeds such as clover and small grasses, one at a time, making sure to avoid crushing or bruising flowers.

Find the best way of covering ground that works for you and methodically scour the flower bed. I prefer to get down on the ground where I can see and reach each weed in my flower bed. Getting close enables me to check thoroughly under fallen leaves, among the roots of my plants, and other border niches where weeds may have hidden away.

Use specific tools for particularly stubborn weeds such as dandelions and other clumping weeds. It is advisable to take the time necessary to make sure you remove all instances of a weed because even bits of roots can survive and thrive in your flower bed to challenge you on another day. Weed your flower garden weekly you will find weeds appearing less often due to your careful ministrations. Controlling weeds is easier when a flower garden is regularly mulched.

Flower gardening is a labor of love that requires patience and effort, but the (figurative) fruits borne make it well worth the effort.