marlingardener
Central Texas, zone 8
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 9:44 pm Post subject: Two gardens better than one, three better yet! |
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We have three vegetable gardens, which really helps when rotating crops or trying to isolate the in-and-out vegetables like beans and spinach from the long term ones.
Since our gardens are in the barn lot, we have lots of grass, invasive grass, so we have paths all around the gardens. We can spray the paths with vinegar and keep the grass at bay (well, most of the time).
half of large vegetable garden ( photo / image / picture from marlingardener's Garden )
small vegetable garden ( photo / image / picture from marlingardener's Garden )
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bsewnsew
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:44 am Post subject: |
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That is nice . Wish I could mulch mine an not have to weed.
Oh the weeds here,
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Netty
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:18 am Post subject: |
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Nice!
What kind of vinegar do you use?
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bsewnsew
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:37 am Post subject: |
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What is the formula ..DO you mix it with water/
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toni
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Wonderful gardens, so neat and green and pretty. 
I use vinegar to kill weeds too. Netty you find 20% vinegar at most garden centers, the household vinegar is only 5% and not strong enough to do any good. I use it straight for better killing power.
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marlingardener
Central Texas, zone 8
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 11:59 am Post subject: |
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Glad y'all like our gardens. Toni, thank you for explaining the vinegar. I keep a sprayer full of it in the barn, and zap weeds in the paths when they show up IF the wind isn't blowing!
EJ, in the interest of truth, I took the photos just after weeding. Texas has two of every bug invented, and three of every weed--and they all find our gardens!
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bsewnsew
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks
Will hunt that down.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| marlingardener wrote: | Glad y'all like our gardens. Toni, thank you for explaining the vinegar. I keep a sprayer full of it in the barn, and zap weeds in the paths when they show up IF the wind isn't blowing!
EJ, in the interest of truth, I took the photos just after weeding. Texas has two of every bug invented, and three of every weed--and they all find our gardens! |
Oh, its nice to have another Texan that knows our weeds and bugs. Wonder if vinegar would work on may-pops? I have battled those things for two years and can`t pull them up fast enough to keep them from spreading. If I pull one,,ten more pop up. Never thought about vinegar. I could use it in the small garden but would have to buy it by the 55 gal. drum for the big garden. At least the may-pops are only in the little one.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 7:02 am Post subject: |
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What a lovely, well tended veggie garden you've got there. A real treat to my tired eyes. 
We use vinegar too, to keep our paths weed-free. The only problem is that our neighbours complain about the stench so I try to use lots of boiling water where I can.
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drissel122
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I'll have to look for that vinegar, I love natural solutions.
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I like the pathways around your veggie gardens Marlin. Everything looks so neat and tidy and well worth all the effort I know you put into them. 
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