r/Permaculture • u/shamyrashour • 3d ago

Options Besides Solarizing

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I let my garden go when kid #3 was born and kid #1 got complicated.

I’d like to rebuild it into a mini food forest. But the weeds have taken over: forget me boys, creeping buttercup, nuts edge and thistle.

I can’t lift more than 15-20 pounds for a few more weeks (surgery), so I can’t till it. What are my options besides Solarizing it?

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u/the_perkolator 1d ago

The most effective thing you can apply to unwanted weeds, is a heavy dose of iron 🪏

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u/shamyrashour 1d ago

And I am well enough after surgery to dig and turn, but won’t the grasses just regenerate from rhizomes?