Clematis: Spring is here!, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Weeds may end up being a problem to many of us forever. I'm only ahead of it (not all of it but most of it) because of the hours I spend (6 to 8 hours a day) but with the heat coming in July I'll just have to get out there earlier.

I love how the sturdiest cardboard works! It's digging the weeds so I can put down the cardboard that takes time. See below for the evil Houttuynia cordata 'Chameleon' roots grew so happily under strong weed free cloth! Last night I was down at ground level with a knife cutting into roots and then pouring the poison into the cut sections. Today I'll see if that grand plan worked.

According to Mark Viette, the Virginia gardener/lecturer/radio personality, the "trick" is to get the weeds out and 2 to 3" of mulch down before the forsythia loses its blooms. Maybe, if we all had a crew of 30 workers, we could manage it but for most of us it's just not possible.