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Not every owner of a summer cottage manages to purchase ready-made sown areas. Especially if houses and dachas are built on virgin lands. In this case, the whole dacha is overgrown weeds a meadow with perennial plants piercing the ground like ropes with their powerful roots. Therefore, the question of how to develop a plot for a vegetable garden, to remove weeds from overgrown areas arises not only for beginners, but also for farmers with great experience.
In addition to grass, shrubs often grow in such areas, which will also have to be uprooted in order to plant cultivated plants in their place. After acquiring it in such a dacha, it is almost impossible to plant anything, the overgrown area will have to be brought into a divine form. Therefore, it is important to know how and with what means to clean thickets of grass and shrubs in the country, so that you can not only sow vegetables, but also make a beautiful lawn.
Mechanical and agrotechnical methods
How to put in order the acquired plot, which is completely overgrown with perennial weeds and bushes? Gardeners and gardeners are enterprising people, big fans of experiments. They own a lot of ways processing of overgrown with weeds and preparing them for planting cultivated plants. It should be noted that our grandmothers did not have the means of chemical production to help get rid of the thickets of weeds. They used safe but effective methods. But first of all, the site needs to be planned.
Crop plants for weed control
Is it possible, when putting in order the territory of the dacha, to use part of the overgrown area for planting cultivated plants already in the first year? Yes, you can, and planting will help you get rid of weeds.
- Part of the site can be dug up and potatoes or cabbage can be planted. Growing up, they block the access of light to the weeds. In addition, such plants are loosened several times during the vegetative period, spud, thereby spontaneous development of the site occurs. If you spread sawdust, compost, roofing material between the plants, then the weeds will also die under them. See how it looks in the photo.
- How else can you develop a piece of a vegetable garden? Our grandmothers put the overgrown lands in order in such an original way: on the area with weeds, they scattered humus with a thick layer so that it completely covered the site, several layers of old newspapers or thick cardboard were laid on top. On top of this shelter, fertile soil was poured into which, like in ridges, seeds of beets and rutabagas were sown. You can also plant tomato seedlings on such a site, only for this you need to make a hole in the newspapers. Plants will grow rapidly as the grass begins to rot, enriching the soil with trace elements. By autumn, on the weed-free area developed in this way, not a trace will remain, and you will provide yourself with vegetables.
- Want to make a lawn with flowers? Nothing complicated. Cover the flower bed with cardboard or newspaper and plant seedlings of your favorite flowers.
- To solve the question of how to quickly remove weeds from an overgrown area, gardeners give a lot of useful advice. Many of them use green manure, sowing with them densely the area from which it is necessary to remove weeds. It can be rye, mustard, vetch. At the same time, we do not plow the site. During the season, the grass is mowed several times without removing the dried plants. Then the plot covered with black film... Weeds and green manure cuttings are re-heated during the season, enriching the soil and improving its structure.
- You can clean the area with the help of sunflowers, bush beans, which will not allow weeds to grow. Sowing seeds should be dense, no more than 5 cm between seeds, in row spacings up to 15 cm. The sowing will have to be in about a month, while the plants are small. The sunflower, gaining strength, builds up a powerful root system, taking food from the weeds. At the same time, bush beans cover the garden with leaves, cover the soil from the sun, preventing the earth from overgrowing with weeds.
Cleaning a large area
We will prepare the rest of the cottage area for next year. Where to start work:
- First, the suburban area is cleaned of shrubs. They are cut down and burned. There is no need to throw away ash, it is an excellent fertilizer. It is scattered around the site.
- If the grass is tall, then it is advisable to mow it first. It is better to put the cut weeds in a separate heap, since it will still be useful.
- We plow or dig up the territory. We turn the soil with a shovel, break the lumps. You can also use a pitchfork. In this case, the soil must be cleaned of large roots. The dug area can be left in pairs. During the summer, as a rule, the earth is dug up again when weeds appear.
- Lay the cut weeds on top in a thick layer. You can use peat, sawdust, straw, hay, old roofing material, boards, even cardboard and newspapers for these purposes. This is done in order to stop the access of light to the weeds.
- Many gardeners use black covering material for these purposes. At the same time, it can be laid on an unplowed area on top of the weeds. This area under the film will remain until next spring.
How to easily clean an overgrown area:
Lawn preparation
It is difficult to imagine a dacha without flower beds and lawns. To develop the land for the lawn, you will have to resort to other operations.
With the help of a bayonet shovel, they remove the sod, pierced by the roots of perennial weeds, about five centimeters. Sod with fertile soil is not thrown away, but stacked in a stack to dry with the roots up. Next year you will have ready-made land for filling in the ridges.
And now about how to make a lawn. The resulting trench needs to be dug up, fertile soil added, well shed and sown with lawn grasses. A beautiful lawn will appear in a month. To prevent weeds from growing around it, cover the paths with peat or old newspapers.
Weed control herbicides
If nothing was ever planted on the terrain that fell under the summer cottage, then without chemicals it is impossible to quickly cope with weeds. Today, you can use various effective preparations to clean your summer cottage:
- Tornado;
- Hurricane;
- Roundup and others.
As a rule, you need to start killing weeds when the plants have not yet entered the flowering phase. For processing, choose a windless hot day without precipitation for 10-12 hours. The treated weeds first turn yellow, and then, after 2 weeks, die off along with the root system. After that, they are removed from the site and burned. Do not use ash for fertilization.
It is advisable not to plant cultivated plants in the country until next spring. But you need to sow siderates. They will heal the soil, enrich it with nutrients and improve its structure. In the spring we will plow the land and plant the necessary crops.
When treating an area with herbicides, you need to use personal protective equipment and take precautions.
Let's summarize
It is impossible to tell about all the methods of cleaning an overgrown summer cottage in one article, we have chosen the most popular ones. Each gardener will decide for himself how he will weed out in an overgrown dacha. The main thing is not to dwell on the results achieved and not to allow green enemies to stifle cultivated plants. Then your beds will delight you with a bountiful harvest of vegetables, berries and fruits.
Thank you for helping weed control