Gardening query?

Question

My garden is mess!!!
I want to dig over all the soil and get rid of those nasty weeds,but it has'nt rained down here for 10 days and the ground is very dry.
Would it be an idea to hire a rotivator or a power digger to do the hard work???
Are they any good?

Answer 1

i would suggest spraying the weeds with something like Round Up or Finale. that will kill the weeds and pretty much anything else that is living there for right now.

then i would pick all the weeds, or as many as you can. it may be a tedious process but well worth it.

then rent a cultivator or a rototiller and go to town and the ground. it will be hard if the ground is hard. you can spray it with water and let it soak in for a little bit. then rototill it.

Answer 2

Hi. Depending on how big an area you have this may or may not be logical for you but, you might try covering the area with plastic, a tarp, or even newspapers. Whichever you choose, you will need to weight it down. This method smoothers all plants beneath the liner. It will take time, but if you did it now, by next spring, you would have a clean slate...well garden....to start with. And the rototiller will work much better in this softened soil than to try and till it now. Oh, and if you use newspapers and cover it with leaves, all those can be tilled directly into the soil next spring.

Answer 3

Yes, Rototill the soil but add some organic material such as peat moss to the soil to retain moisture. Use a weed block after planting such as weed block fabric with bark mulch over it.

Answer 4

Now is the time to dig it over, once it starts raining the soil will be heavier and while you're at it you can turn in some manure. When the rain comes it will spread the fetiliser in the soil.

Answer 5

I would pull the weeds and burn them. Leave the rotivating or digging until winter and let the frost do the hard part of tilling the soil. You will wreck the rotivator or kill yourself if you try to do it when the ground is rock hard........

Answer 6

I'd do the rototiller first to loosen the top soil. If you are planting shallow rooted plants, that may be all that you need. We have degenerated granite which gets hard as a rock and had to rent an auger to plant anything beyond gallon plants.

Answer 7

do not rotovate those one or two nasty little weeds will turn into hundreds of nasty weeds spray them do not go for retail trade names it will cost you try glyfos £3 alitre enough to do a hockey pitch or sodium chloride kills every thing in the ground for a couple of months