Fighting a losing battle

[BerberElla]

Against the weeds in my garden.

Everytime I cut them down, they grow even higher and take away more of my garden.

I don't want to use weed killer because I want to grow things once I get the weeds sorted.

I keep popping out there today to tackle it, and coming back to the pc because it's so frustrating lol

How do you get rid of weeds without ruining your garden?

I've only been here a year and haven't really had time to deal with the garden, plus uk weather etc, but there are weeds choking up a rose bush, and some other pretty stuff I can't identify. Are they ruined now or is there a way to save them?

 

[Fluffywolf]

Hire a gardener, it's what I did. :/

Weeds, I've dealt with them at times, sure, but entirely getting rid of them I never succeeded at. It's like a constant struggle. Pfft. My gardener seems to have it all under good control though.

 

[BerberElla]

Hire a gardener, it's what I did. :/

Weeds, I've dealt with them at times, sure, but entirely getting rid of them I never succeeded at. It's like a constant struggle. Pfft. My gardener seems to have it all under good control though.

I can't afford it. It will have to be all hard work on my part unfortunately.

I hate chores, gardens are nice to have but it sucks having to fix them.

 

[Fluffywolf]

You could try my brothers (ENTP) approach to gardening.

Paved stones, fake grass, and a few vases with fake flowers. (lol)

...I should retire, maybe someone that actually knows about this stuff will give you a good tip.

 

[Phantonym]

Try mulch.

And there's this plastic bag like material (sorry don't know exactly what's it called) to cover some areas in the garden, the plants that you want to grow stick out of it but the weeds are stifled (?) I guess. Makes sense, huh? Hey, I'm no gardener.

 

[AphroditeGoneAwry]

Against the weeds in my garden.

Everytime I cut them down, they grow even higher and take away more of my garden.

I don't want to use weed killer because I want to grow things once I get the weeds sorted.

I keep popping out there today to tackle it, and coming back to the pc because it's so frustrating lol

How do you get rid of weeds without ruining your garden?

I've only been here a year and haven't really had time to deal with the garden, plus uk weather etc, but there are weeds choking up a rose bush, and some other pretty stuff I can't identify. Are they ruined now or is there a way to save them?

i *think* you have to sit on your arse with a spade and pull them out one by one. then my friends tell me (when i've asked them this same q) you have to weed every day. then i've read after it rains, you should run a cultivator (a manual weed machine with sharp points) over the dirt back and forth to help prevent weeds from popping up due to the recent moisture. usually gardeners use some sort of plastic under the mulch cuz you are literally fighting a losing battle.

weeds are the least of my probs. if i beat the weeds, i have deer, if i beat the deer i have field mice. if i beat the mice (can't really) i have the summer frosts........virtually impossible to even have any flowers grow where i am.

good luck! you're in the uk, eh? nice.

 

[BerberElla]

You could try my brothers (ENTP) approach to gardening.

Paved stones, fake grass, and a few vases with fake flowers. (lol)

...I should retire, maybe someone that actually knows about this stuff will give you a good tip.

Haha no way, I love walking on grass, although I'm considering having a clover lawn because it's softer (my friend has one).

Try mulch.

And there's this plastic bag like material (sorry don't know exactly what's it called) to cover some areas in the garden, the plants that you want to grow stick out of it but the weeds are stifled (?) I guess. Makes sense, huh? Hey, I'm no gardener.

I did always used to wonder why people had woodchippings down around plants. I just looked it up, thanks for the heads up.

 

[BerberElla]

i *think* you have to sit on your arse with a spade and pull them out one by one. then my friends tell me (when i've asked them this same q) you have to weed every day. then i've read after it rains, you should run a cultivator (a manual weed machine with sharp points) over the dirt back and forth to help prevent weeds from popping up due to the recent moisture. usually gardeners use some sort of plastic under the mulch cuz you are literally fighting a losing battle.

weeds are the least of my probs. if i beat the weeds, i have deer, if i beat the deer i have field mice. if i beat the mice (can't really) i have the summer frosts........virtually impossible to even have any flowers grow where i am.

good luck! you're in the uk, eh? nice.

Wow, I read the rest through tears after the bolded parts. An everyday chore?

Hmm time to weigh up my love of greenery with my hatred of hard work.

 

[Fluffywolf]

You can always admire your neighbours greenery.

 

[BerberElla]

Time to remind my isfj friend that she promised to do my garden for me this year lol if anyone can make it work, she can.

 

[Fluffywolf]

That's the spirit!

 

[BerberElla]

That's the spirit!

I need a garden that's green and zen like, but with the minimal upkeep necessary. Or I need to meet an SJ I can take home and keep there with me.

I would take my friend but I think her kids would find that unfair.

 

[AphroditeGoneAwry]

Time to remind my isfj friend that she promised to do my garden for me this year lol if anyone can make it work, she can.

i love your new pic, btw--you can really pull off those tats.

 

[Kingfisher]

you don't have to pull them every day, but pretty often. pulling weeds by hand is the most effective.

i personally like the weedy overgrown look. i like weeds, they are just different kinds of plants to me. this is my kind of garden:

 

[AphroditeGoneAwry]

you don't have to pull them every day, but pretty often. pulling weeds by hand is the most effective.

i personally like the weedy overgrown look. i like weeds, they are just different kinds of plants to me. this is my kind of garden:

strange. i don't see you as the gardening type. are you?

 

[BerberElla]

you don't have to pull them every day, but pretty often. pulling weeds by hand is the most effective.

i personally like the weedy overgrown look. i like weeds, they are just different kinds of plants to me. this is my kind of garden:

But they are all prickly lol at least in my garden.

 

[BerberElla]

i love your new pic, btw--you can really pull off those tats.

Thanks, it was really painful, but I figured it was worth it.

 

[Kingfisher]

strange. i don't see you as the gardening type. are you?

oh yeah, for sure!
i had a pretty nice flower garden and a real nice vegetable garden when i lived in washington (near seattle).
right now i only have a vegetable garden. my backyard opens directly into the desert (there is nobody else around), so i just preserve the natural look of the desert in my yard. i have planted some sage and other things, but i let it do it's own thing, an don't do a lot of maintenence.

i have a nice vegetbale garden. i grow a lot of chile peppers, jalapenos, serranos, and big jim peppers. also bell peppers. i also grow a lot of tomatoes (full size and cherry tomatoes). and onions, squash, watermelon, cilantro, peaches.

But they are all prickly lol at least in my garden.

oh, well prickly is no good. surely not everything there is prickly? i live in the desert, southwest usa, and not everything is cactus here.

 

[BerberElla]

oh, well prickly is no good. surely not everything there is prickly? i live in the desert, southwest usa, and not everything is cactus here.

All of the weeds are stinging nettles, they also grow over the path which means I can't skip barefooted down it on a sunny day if I don't trim them back.

The rose bush is buried underneath a huge patch of the things.

I have some of those insane long grass bush things. no idea what they are called. Like tufts of thick grass like leaves.

Some weird furry beans on this plant that grows up the fence.

A tree with orange and red inedible berries and 2 bush things I can't identify, not that I've idenitified anything so far.

But it has so much potential. Like me.

 

[Phantonym]

i personally like the weedy overgrown look. i like weeds, they are just different kinds of plants to me.

+1

I was walking through a friend's unfinished garden tonight and I saw a bunch of weeds that were, in my opinion, better looking than the "normal" decorative plants there

But I'm not going to discriminate the well groomed gardens. Some people actually make a lot of effort to make the garden look like it's wild.