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How to control the growth of weeds?

How to control the growth of weeds?

Whether in the home garden, farm crop cultivation, urban road landscape greening, weed control is always a matter of frustration. Because there are always weed seeds or breeding roots in the soil. When the soil moisture, temperature, and sunlight reach the growth conditions for weed seeds to germinate, they will break through the ground. As they grow, they will destroy the beauty of your garden, compete with the water and nutrients needed to grow the crops, affecting the growth of crops. So controlling the growth of weeds has become something that people must pay attention to when they are gardening or planting crops, so how do we control the growth of weeds?

 According to people's long-term practice, the following methods are summarized:

· Manual weeding: Manually pulling weeds is the most direct and environmentally friendly method, suitable for small fields, gardens or lawns. For example, in a home garden, people can regularly pull weeds by hand to keep the garden clean. In addition, agricultural tools such as hoes and shovels can also be used for weeding, which can effectively cut off the root system of weeds, making it difficult to regenerate, and is suitable for a large area of land.

· mulch and weed

· Use of mulch: The surface of the soil is covered with a layer of organic material, such as straw, wood chips, leaves, etc., the thickness is usually about 5-10 cm. This can block sunlight, inhibit the germination and growth of weed seeds, and maintain soil moisture and increase soil fertility. For example, in orchards, straw can be covered around fruit trees, which can both weed and conserve moisture.

· Use mulch or weed barriers: Placing black or coloured plastic film or weed barriers in fields or gardens can effectively block light and prevent weeds from photosynthesising, thereby inhibiting their growth. This method is often used in fields such as vegetable growing, which can increase ground temperature, retain soil moisture, and reduce weed growth.

· Chemical weeding: The use of herbicides to control weed growth. According to the mode of action, herbicides can be divided into selective herbicides and non-selective herbicides. Selective herbicides can selectively kill some weeds, but not harmful to crops, such as benzene sulfonon used in wheat fields, can effectively control broad-leaved weeds, and have little impact on wheat growth. Non-selective herbicides will kill all plants on contact, such as glyphosate, which is often used to remove weeds in non-cultivated fields such as ridges and roadsides.

· Biological weeding

· Use insects: Release insects that feed on weeds to control weed growth. For example, in some areas, leaf armour is used to control ragweed, which feeds on the leaves of ragweed and can effectively inhibit the growth and reproduction of ragweed.

· Introduction of animals: Grazing of domestic animals such as goats and sheep to graze on weeds can both control weed growth and provide food for domestic animals. In some grassland areas, this method is used to manage weeds while maintaining the ecological balance of the grassland.

· The use of microorganisms: some microorganisms can infect and kill weeds, such as the use of fungal preparations to control dodder, can effectively control the harm of dodder to other plants.

· Crop rotation and intercropping

· Crop rotation: Reasonable arrangement of different crop rotation order can change the growth environment of weeds and inhibit weed growth. For example, if you rotate legumes with gramineous crops, some weeds adapted to the growing environment of gramineous crops will have difficulty surviving during the growing period of legumes because the roots of legumes have a nitrogen-fixing effect, which will change the nutrient structure of the soil.

· Intercropping: Interplanting the main crop with plants that suppress weeds. If soybeans are interplanted in corn fields, the growth of soybeans will block part of the sunlight and inhibit the growth of some weeds, and the nitrogen fixation of soybean rhizobium can also provide nutrients for corn.

Where can I find mulch and weed barrier production plants?

As the most professional weed control cloth (landscape fabric) manufacturer in China, HYFabricsupply also produces a variety of weed barriers, including polypropylene spunbond weed control cloth, black plastic mulch film, plastic weaved weed barrier, polyester landscape fabric, polyester fiber needled grass prevention cloth, etc. Can accept custom weight, width, length and packaging. Years of production experience in the industry let us in the quality control and production cost control has made good progress. So if you ever need weed control cloths, feel free to contact us.