Hello everyone out there in the gardening world. This is Kevin from Epic Gardening and today we are talking about a question from Mark.

So Mark says this, Kevin, I am in St. Augustine, Florida, and I have epic weeds.

Now that's one thing I don't want people to have epic amounts of.

Sorry to hear that, Mark.

I have a quarter acre for food for my family. We grow a lot, but how do you naturally control weeds besides just pulling them up?

So that's certainly one natural way,

but a lot of people don't like doing that,

myself included.

So I'm going to go over a few different ways

that you can do this.

So the first one is going to be mulching.

So mulching, I obviously talk quite a bit about you can do a

wood chip mulch and that can do quite a good job. Two to three inches across the

ground will smother a lot of those weeds. Obviously some of the

ones that are established, not going to do much for those, but it will help other

weeds from coming up in the first place. So mulching, besides all the other benefits

for your garden, it's going to be a weed inhibitor.

So really good idea.

Another one that I talk about a lot is more high density planting.

The more densely you plant your vegetables

than the less available resources for a weed to come up.

And so that would mean nutrients, that would mean water, that would also mean sun because the more densely you plant, the more sun you're blocking from the ground.

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