Weed Control

Our house sits on almost an acre of land. A good portion of that is the pond, flower gardens, and the vegetable garden we are working on. I am so happy to have all these beautiful flowers that I didn't have to plant, I just have to maintain. That is hard enough.
Vanessa likes to "help" me in the garden. She came in with a beautiful bouquet with some of my

tulips. Wasn't that nice of her?

I told a friend about this. She told me when her daughter was younger she would pick tulips out of people's yards, ring their doorbell, and ask if they want to buy some flowers from her.

I spent hours this week pulling grass out of my flower beds. I was so proud of myself until I talked to my father-in-law (who is a master gardener) and he told me that just makes the grass come back even worse (at that point I felt like screaming). The only way to cure my weed problem is with chemicals.With young children and pets I was trying to avoid this.

I thought I had another good idea when I sent AJ, Savanah, and one of her friends to pick dandelions out of the yard before they went to seed. Again, my father-in-law kindly told me this will help a little, but it wasn't a "cure-all". Dandelions are a new thing to us. When you pick them, you'll discover a milky substance on the inside of the stem. A neighbor boy had Ethan & AJ convinced that is where skim milk comes from.