Hand Weeding and Supporting Plants

you stay on top of it in your garden like I just told you beware of your sources right here this is kookaburra this is bad stuff right here you can see the deer have been kind of nipping at that kookaburra kakaburra is something that comes from straw oftentimes so when we first started gardening here we took straw and spread it out straw is bad straw is not good straw contains weed seeds and straw will make your garden grow things like this guy right here Morning Glory that's bad stuff for a garden okay so we're going to get in here like I said we'll hand weed around our plants basically just rubbing around our plants no problem there whatever weeds that might be left behind will be killed by the heat that is created and stifled by the lack of sunlight that's created by putting that mulch down if you use composted cow manure same thing it's black it's hot it heats the soil up it helps your plants grow and it destroys the weeds let's get busy if you've got really big weeds you want to pick those weeds out pluck them out and we throw those in the chicken coop they make great eggs if you've got small weeds like this just use your Lupo and you're slicing that up careful not to injure your beautiful little plants we're going to put a tomato cage around this tomato plant right here Bend these straight find the stock this guy down guide him up through be very careful do this after a rainstorm if you can or early in the morning when the branches are a little softer like so some of these might break off it's okay chicken feed it just makes more tomatoes it's okay to prune back your Tomatoes a little bit too number one is done