Gardening: For easy, effective weeding, go back to the hoe [anti-chemical anti-power-tool “news”]

Associated Press ^ | June 15, 2021 | Lee Reich

[LilFarmer]

I do this, but use rock salt - I don’t use it around garden areas, just on my rock walkways and gravel driveway where I don’t care if anything ever grows!

[Augie]

I thought I was clear about that in my original comment:

“Obviously such a concoction is not something that you would want to use on your kitchen garden or around your fish pond, but it works great for fencerows, around out-buildings, etc.”

[PIF]

Many people would follow your recipe since it does not include any alternative - which is what I supplied.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Old Hoe or young....either way you don’t pay the Hoe for the work.... you pay the Hoe to go away after the work is done

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I too am in the Pacific Northwest like your brother was. I can attest to the blackberry zombies.

I once asked a local master gardener on his live radio show (Ed Hume) how to get rod if the blackberry bushes that keep re-emergence in my backyard. He told me there were two ways.

1. Bulldoze out all if the soil and replace with new soil. 2. Cut off the blackberry stalsk near the ground come fall and paint each one with roundup. It sucks the roundup down into the underground roots as they prep for winter.

Then he said “really, nothing works.”

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

What do soap chips do for the garden?

[Augie]

And that’s why car batteries have a label on them that says ‘Don’t drink the battery fluid!’

[Sacajaweau]

Keeps deer away. I use Irish Spring soap.....Very smelly.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I’ve got one of those. I’m getting it when the time is right. Them weeds are mine!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Give yourself credit for your artistic talent! Ithaca would still be a nobody if it weren’t for you! :)

[MomwithHope]

And I can’t even say “I knew him when....” Did he like his picture?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

He said it was a very good likeness! :)

[Hot Tabasco]

If you have hard to find tomato worms on your tomato plants, here's a cool way to locate them at night using a black light flashlight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-1OnAgKC9U&t=361s