Miracle - thought I’d lost my broccoli, but as weather is turning colder, the cabbage worms are gone. Lots of damage, but they’re coming back. I might even get a few florets.
Need some help: I am pulling up weed barriers (useless) and want to fertilize, put weed killer and pesticide down. What order and when??
I don’t put weed barrier down, weed killer or pesticides. The reason I started growing my own food was to avoid chemicals as much as possible.
For my raised beds, I put down several layers of newspaper, after turning the grass over and exposing the roots for a week or prior to the planting season. Then I put down 5 or 6 layers of newspaper-no color.
I plant everything pretty close together - no thinning. When the sprouts are up, I mulch with wood or shredded paper, or straw. The plants get a head start, and for the most part, I don’t have weeds, except for the one bed where I used hay for mulch without thinking about it - but even there, they don’t do well.