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- 1. Weeds! Advanced Master Gardener Series June 23, 2021 Bart Renner
- 3. What is a weed? • An underappreciated plant? • A plant whose useful characteristics haven’t yet been identified? • The wrong plant growing in the wrong place? • A plant which is generally very aggressive, quickly reproduces, and takes energy from a desired plant or crop.
- 8. Weed control Weeding quickly, but keeping soil structure in place.
- 11. Tools
- 13. Practices • Add a variety of organic materials • Reduce compaction • Minimize tillage • Match fertility needs with plant needs • Cover crops!
- 14. Cover cropping systems • Wide variety of crops can suit your needs
- 15. Rye • Important to understand the difference between ryegrass and cereal rye. • Generally most cold tolerant cover crop. • Produce allelopathic chemicals • Can mine nutrients from deep in the soil
- 17. Ryegrass http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Starr_001026-9002_Lolium_perenne.jpg/754px-Starr_001026-9002_Lolium_perenne.jpg Cool season grass Deep roots Allelopathic
- 18. Vetch http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Vicia_orobus 1_eF.jpg/417px-Vicia_orobus1_eF.jpg •Great nitrogen fixer •Very effective at out competing weeds (once established). •Good for the bees!
- 19. Cereal Rye and vetch http://www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/factsheets/vetch%20and%20rye.JPG
- 20. Clover • Cold tolerant, can be planted in the fall or spring • N fixing • Great for the bees! • Needs a higher pH (6.5- 7) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Trifolium_pratense_0522.jpg/220px-Trifolium_pratense_0522.jpg
- 22. Buckwheat • Rapid growth in the summer • Great for a smother crop in between spring and fall plantings • Rapid growth cycle
- 23. Mustards
- 25. Killing your cover crops
- 27. Tarps? Really?
- 28. Tarps for weed control
- 29. Synthetic Ground covers • Can be permeable or impermeable • biodegradable http://www.johnnyseeds.com/images/Product /large/9302.jpg
- 31. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FQwY2pRG6O8/ShiGsswp8DI/AAAAAAAAAHg/71iqXYbP_Ng/s400/Tomatoes+mulched.JPG
- 33. Chemicals • Round up- Glyphsate • Crossbow- Tychlopyr, 2,4-D • Dicamba- broadleaf weeds • Many more
- 34. The end
Editor's Notes
- We have served as staff to this board since it’s inception
- “scuffle hoes”= push and pull motion Colinear Hoe Trapeziodal hoe Stirrup hoe Swoe- Dutch hoe= english hoe that gave rise to the scuffle hoe when they sharpened the back side Tender plant hoe- v shaped, looks like a cultivator, folded up on edge so you don’t cut through plants Diamond hoe Winged weeders
- We are in all 100 counties of NC and the EBCI
- https://rodaleinstitute.org/growing-vegetables-with-cover-crop-mulch/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rrv05SxKSo Generally plant in the fall and incorporate in the spring Some plants winter kill
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVozUCuQBuY
- Jean-Martin Fortier ’s top 6 most important tools for the market gardener "occultation"