Weeding without chemicals.

I think the magic formula is called a spade, sarnia 🙃

M0nica

butane gas fuelled weed burner.

Tried it but removing weeds close to other plants you want to keep still needs doing by hand.

The only way I know that works which is chemical free is to pull them all out by hand, hoe, then apply a barrier of some kind, either a thick enough mulch to stop more coming through, or a weed control fabric. Cardboard underneath either acts as a second barrier.

butane gas fuelled weed burner.

Vinegar will only kill seedlings, the easiest way I have found is to mulch the area at least 2inches deep at the start if the year and then remove the weeds that do come through by hand.

If you have got weeds like bindweed with rhizomes the only way is to clear the bed and use glyphosate because however careful you are you won’t remove every root fragment

Dig them out! Pull them up!😬

People have different”formulas” but everything is a chemical basically - salt, vinegar whatever.

Boiling water will kill shallow rooted seedlings but not deeper roots.