You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Homesteading, What a Way To Go - From Back Woods, To Back Yard, It's a Ball! #fff
Wow - the only question I have is why didn't you plant a whole bunch more walnut tress?!? LOL. Enough to share with the squirrels and not stress about them.
The epsom salt and dish soap IS effective but will ruin your soil over time if used too often. It's a concentrated salt, and the dishsoap IS full of chemicals and not harmless. Weedmatting from recycled cardboard with lots of compost and mulch on top creates heat which will kill the weed seeds. More work up front but much better for your soil and a long term solution.
Nice post. Craving walnuts. :)
Leading the curation trail for both @ecotrain & @eco-alex.
Together We’re Making This World A Better Place.
Click Here To Join the manually curated trail "@artemislives" to support quality eco-green content.
Thank you for stopping by @artemislives. Thanks for the tip on another way of dealing with the weeds around the trees. The solution I use with the salt and the dishsoap, I only apply once a year. Having over 300 trees that need to be addressed is no easy task. I like the cardboard and mulch idea, and will give it a try in the spring. I guess I had better start saving my empty boxes.
I've seen plain newspaper, soaked in water and spread out as a thick barrier work for weed control. It will deteriorate and feed the soil, and then weeds will root in it, but it can be re-layered. Again, more work.