Hey there and welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. As a beginning gardener, I remember reading a term that stuck

with me over the years. I'm not entirely sure how accurate it is, but it's definitely stuck with me.

And it's called the Summer Solstice Weeds Race. Here we are in the middle of June and the summer

solstice is very close to being upon us.

And what that means is that those of us in the northern hemisphere,

we get the longest days of the year.

What I took this specific term to mean was that heading up and ramping up to the summer solstice, we would see a profusion of weeds in our garden.

Not to say that once the solstice is over, we don't have issues with

weeds because we all know that's not the case. But we notice that they are accelerating as the

days get longer. And I would say that that has definitely been something that I've noticed in my

garden. We are all going to have to deal with weeds, no matter what our practices are,

even if we have put as many preventative measures in place in our garden as we possibly can,

we're going to be dealing with weeds. But one thing that I have noticed as I hear from so

many of you is that if you are a beginner or if you haven't made it around to putting some preventative measures

in place, you may be dealing with some major weed issues right now. We're going to talk today on the

podcast on why this is happening, and partly this is so you will know how to prevent it or how to

deal with it in future years, but also I'm going to talk to you

about what you can do about it now I don't want you to look at your garden and notice

that it's all overgrown and just give up thinking there's nothing you can do

about it because there are some things that you can do about it this season and

then also understanding the why behind all of this will

help you to be able to put some measures in place for next year. So today on the podcast, we're

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