My garden is messed up because of weeds.?

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san

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Well... first of all, Hello people!

Now, the problem is, i have five fruit plants in my garden which has started growing fruits and i also have weeds allover my garden including the BINDWEED - which is a headache - and of course i want to vanish all those weeds which can - i think - done by Spraying the weedkiller but i am afraid it will effect the fruit plants.

I mean, i want to know that WILL spraying weedkiller effect the fruit plant or the fruit on plant. Will the fruit taste be consistent or it will be changed bcoz of the chemical?

thanks,
SAN
 
Take some black plastic, lay over weeds put mulch on black plastic leave room around fruit plants for watering! DON'T use the weed killer around fruit!
 
Yes, spraying weed killer will effect the fruit plant. It will kill it, and obviously, the fruit will then show some effects. We all want to take the easy way out, but to keep any vegetable or fruit garden weed free requires back breaking tilling, hoeing or pulling if you wait until the weeds have the upper hand before deciding to act.
 
Take some black plastic, lay over weeds put mulch on black plastic leave room around fruit plants for watering! DON'T use the weed killer around fruit!
 
Hi,
your best bet is to physically rake/pull the weeds up, then spray left over weeds directly with a trigger spray bottle of weed killer. This will keep the spray directly targeted at the weed. You do not want to spray on a windy day, as fine mist particles could quite possibly settle on your fruit trees. If you spray, spray on a calm day, and keep the spray targeted low to the ground, directly on the weeds.
Cheers
 
Hi,
your best bet is to physically rake/pull the weeds up, then spray left over weeds directly with a trigger spray bottle of weed killer. This will keep the spray directly targeted at the weed. You do not want to spray on a windy day, as fine mist particles could quite possibly settle on your fruit trees. If you spray, spray on a calm day, and keep the spray targeted low to the ground, directly on the weeds.
Cheers
 
You have only 5 fruit plants and can't take five minutes a week to pull weeds around them?

You can also easily dig up bindweed.
 
Spray will inevitably get on to your fruit bushes/trees and, though it probably wont kill the trees, will have a detrimental affect on them and will kill the bushes.

Your best bet is to pull or dig out the weeds from under the tree canopies and around the bushes for starters. Use a systemic weed killer applied from a watering can, not a spray, on the rest of the garden.

'Round up' is a good brand systemic weed killer which will not effect the soil. Systemic weed killers take longer to work than contact weed killers, but they kill off the root, which is what you need to do. Once the weeds are dead, you need to get them out, don't dig them in. After a short while you will see new growth appearing. You will need to re-treat this and anything which begins to grow under the tree canopies and around the bushes. Be very careful not to get any weed killer on the bushes.

It may well take a number of treatments before you begin to see a result, as removal of the growing weeds will clear the way for seed in the ground to germinate and for un affected root to put on top growth. This is particularly the case with Bindweed, which is notoriously difficult to eradicate.

Getting rid of the weeds from around the bushes will prove extremely difficult, so it would be best to either take cuttings or buy new bushes for re-planting after you have dealt with your weed troubles.
 
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