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December 7, 2018

For a weedless garden next spring, begin now

By LEE REICH
Associated Press

I take a four-pronged approach to keeping my vegetable and flower gardens free of weed problems, and suggest you try it.

First, keep dormant weed seeds asleep by not tilling or otherwise churning the soil. (All soils contain many weed seeds that lie dormant until they are exposed to light, which happens when soils are tilled.)


 
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