I am having a really hard time keeping my garden beds free of weeds. My main problem is the couch grass (I have different types of rhizomes grass, I don’t know if they are all called couch grass). It is everywhere and really needs to be removed, so the garden beds I have cleared, I go trough on a regular base to keep them that way. The couch grass is constantly popping up again. The roots are in the original soil underneath the raised garden beds and to deep to actually dig up and I already have plants growing in a lot of the garden beds. The only thing I can do is constantly pull out the couch grass as good as it goes hoping to hunger out the roots until they die off.
Because off this I was not able to give time to all of the garden beds and as you can see on the picture this bed is pretty full of weeds, which also spread ground covering. Obviously a good ground cover is not bad, but does it interfere with the vegetables I want to grow here?
On the left side there is yarrow, which I know to be a medicinal herb. What I did not know is that it takes over entire areas of the garden. Making this post I learned that it attracts beneficial insects and repels some pests, which is a good thing of course.
The right corner is full of a low growing leafy “weed” with yellow flowers, which is an absolute winner as it comes to ground covering. It is called creeping cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans). Once this is growing somewhere you will not get rid of it anymore. Even the tiniest root will grow on again and it makes runners, like strawberries do, to spread. However this also is a medicinal herb and is supposed to help against inflammation.
Well to make a long story short. I am planting and sowing and I do not want to go trough the effort of weeding everything out (only the couch grass has to go).
I sowed 2 rows of green beans in this garden bed. I simply sowed in the weeds and we will see what happens. A plant attracting predatory insects and a plant covering the ground aren’t bad things after all.
Beautiful Chaos 