Most farmers and gardeners hate it, and I am no exception. However, though odious, pulling weeds is a chore that has great importance.
Before - these are my four biggest papaya trees and I've neglected pulling weeds under them.
Pulling weeds near the roots of your fruits and veggies is important, because you may already know that weeds rob your plants of needed nutrients.
The idea is to pull the whole weed up, roots included, to ensure they don't come back. If you just give the weeds a haircut, well, you can guess what will happen.
Like my post earlier, all living things are vying for survival - weeds included. Without human intervention, weeds would take over and I wouldn't have a garden.
After - this took me about 15 minutes just to weed under these 4 papayas. I could've gotten the weedwacker and been done in 1 minute, but then they would just keep growing back...
If you're thinking about homesteading or gardening, there are certain things you can do cut down on pulling weeds, because it's a very monotonous job.
Now, you could use roundup, but that contains toxic chemicals and have been found in numerous water and air samples across the country in higher than safe amounts.
Here is a link to a webpage that is entitled "11 Ways to Control Weeds Withiut Chemicals":
http://www.networx.com/article/11-ways-to-control-weeds-without-chemica
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