Hello everyone welcome back to the epic gardening podcast today I am taking a question from

less so less says I have a gardening problem that I would love to get some advice on I'm going to start

an outdoor hydroponic system however I do not know how to

affordably cover the ground so that the grass and weeds do not continue to grow

underneath my system. Sparing with chemicals is not an option. Do you have any

ideas for natural sprays I can use that will keep the

grass from growing? Yes, I do. I don't actually have ideas for natural sprays,

although I would say if you were to pour something highly acidic

and also natural on the ground that would kill the grass. So something like

vinegar would probably kill your grass.

So if you pour distilled white vinegar on the ground,

I would expect that the grass would die.

But a solution that you may not have considered

is to just get a small bit of tarp. I know you said you don't you said

I don't know how to affordably cover the ground but tarp will smother the grass and

it will die over time. So this is actually a technique that Curtis Stone uses.

He's an urban farmer up in Colonna, British Columbia and so what he'll do when he

transforms a lawn into an urban plot is he will desod, so he'll chop the lawn out.

And of course that's an option for you as well if you were to just rip out the grass.

But if you don't want to do that, he'll also cover that land with black tarp.

And he'll heavily water it in and then he'll cover it with black tarp and leave the tarp there

for one to two weeks, maybe a little bit longer.

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