Weeds are starting to grow - late April to early May in Perth Western Australia
If you have areas of bare earth in your garden, most likely there are countless tiny and small weeds starting off now, so now is the time to stop them. Scrape them away before they use up the nutrients in your soil, and get big and bulky to dispose of, and hard to pull out. There is no need go shopping for toxic expensive herbicide chemicals that poison the soil. There is no need to buy anything except a simple garden tool that should last you forever if you store it out of the weather. You could probably find a good second-hand one cheap at the tip shop. The tool for this task is a garden hoe. There are various designs and sizes, but what matters most is using it, now. The advantage of using the hoe to tackle weed seedlings is that it keeps you upright without having to kneel down or bend over, but for small weeds in fiddly spots you might need to put on your garden gloves, get down and scrape the weeds with a garden hand trowel. I am sure that when most people think of ...