Every gardener knows that in order to feast on his own grown and environmentally friendly vegetables, berries, you need to constantly fight against stubborn parasitic plants - weeds. There are many ways to remove weeds from the garden: chemical, mechanical, and even folk. In order for parasitic plants not to impede the healthy growth of vegetable and fruit crops, not to take away moisture, sunlight and nutrients from them, you need to choose the right means for weed control.
Based on the size of the site, the variety of the plant-parasite and the damage it can cause the garden, you should choose the most optimal and effective method for dealing with weeds in the country.
What danger do weeds pose
Weeds are dangerous and evil enemies of cultivated plants. They appear in the garden with the arrival of spring and multiply during the growing season of cultivated plants. There are several ways how weeds get to the dacha, one of which is through the ground. The spores of some weed plants live in the soil constantly and begin to actively germinate when favorable conditions appear, for example, after rain. There is a high probability of parasitic plants entering the garden through organic fertilizers. 
Care must be taken to ensure that the manure or compost that you bring in for top dressing undergo the necessary thorough treatment. Weed carriers can also get into the garden through poor planting stock bought on a spontaneous market. Therefore, in order to avoid unpleasant consequences, it is better to buy seedlings or seeds in special stores.
And finally, the ideal peddler of weeds is the wind. One gust of it is enough to infect even the most ideally harvested area with weed seeds.
How to remove all the weeds from the beds forever, it is still unknown to agronomists or experienced breeders. It has been scientifically proven that weeds take half of the fertilizer and fertilizing from the soil, which leads to a shortage of food for cultivated plants and reduces their yield. 
Parasitic plants are the habitat and breeding of insect pests, and also emit harmful substances into the soil that cause various diseases.
Even burning of plants in the fall does not help with weed control in the country. Unfortunately, weeds adapt very well to unfavorable environmental conditions, are resistant to frost, high humidity and drought, and are quickly restored even after mechanical damage. Even the use of radical measures helps to eliminate the problem with weeds only for a while. 
How to deal with weeds in the garden
Weed control at the dacha is to use one or more methods of site treatment. This is a mechanical method (manual treatment), chemical (treatment with herbicides) and a biological method, which consists in actions designed to slow the growth of parasitic plants.
Mechanical method: weeding
The oldest and easiest way to remove weeds - manual or mechanical weeding. This is the most affordable and cheap method that is absolutely harmless to cultivated plants and human health, but it is also the most laborious. Weeding must be systematically and constantly, otherwise there will be no effect. 
The most important thing in this method is to prevent the seeds of weeds from getting into the beds, and if some of them got caught, they should be removed during germination. The torn grass does not need to be thrown away, it is better to put it in a compost pile.
For the destruction of weeds need in the spring, two weeks before planting cultivated plants, dig the soil. After digging it is necessary to close the beds with film for the entire time before sowing or planting crops. This will block access to light for all weed spores that live in the soil, and without light, they cannot quickly germinate. Immediately before planting, you need to level the soil with a rake, pulling out the weeds that again sprouted under the film. In the garden prepared in this way, the harvest will be higher, and the plants - the parasites are several times smaller. 
Important! Weeding should be done at the dacha fence, around the vegetable garden and in hard-to-reach places, as this will help to destroy the weeds in the country and prevent their re-breeding.Special devices for thermal destruction of weeds by flames or hot steam blow are also quite effective. This method is justified when you need to get rid of weeds on the patio and tiled paths.
On large-scale plots or fields, electric plows and cultivators are also used as weed control. They plow the land and chop the weeds. After such a cultivation, the land should be planted immediately and the crop should be mulched to prevent new weed germination.
How to get rid of weeds in the garden forever: chemical method
The chemical method of dealing with parasitic plants is much simpler and more effective than mechanical manual processing and does not require hard physical labor. In addition, some types of weed herbicides can destroy almost forever. 
However, it is not so simple. When using drugs of continuous action on the weeds, which are adjacent to the cultural plantings, they should be surely closed with a film and protected from chemicals, otherwise they will be destroyed along with the weeds. It happens that a powerful weed has grown right in the middle of flowers or vegetables and it is not possible to spray it, then the chemical is applied with an ordinary brush.
Anyway, chemical preparations for weed control are sometimes a real salvation, because only with their help one can get rid of such evil weeds as wheatgrass or hogweed. However, you should not expect that chemistry will rid your area of weeds once and for all, but they will be much less. Unfortunately, weed seeds that had previously fallen into the ground will re-germinate, and the control measures will need to be repeated.
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Chemicals are divided into continuous action herbicides, which kill all plants in a row (annual and perennial) and selective (specialized) action herbicides. The latter destroy certain types of weeds. They are especially effective for lawns of grass grasses, since mechanical methods of weed control there are problematic: weeding equipment can damage the beauty of green carpets.Important! Herbicides spray only green weeds, not the soil!Many gardeners and vegetable growers are suspicious of chemistry for weeds. But you should not worry about this, because it is not the funds that bring harm, but their incorrect application.
Herbicides of specialized action harm only specific types of weeds, lawn grasses and cultivated plants (except for some garden ones), they do not harm.
It is allowed to use only one chemical preparation for planting potatoes and tomatoes - this is “Lazurit”containing metribuzin (700 g / kg). Other safest, environmental, and proven products are Lontrel (a selective herbicide, the active ingredient clopyralid); Combined "Propolol" (dicamba + chlorsulfuron), as well as glyphosate-based preparations: Roundup, Tornado, Uragan, Agrokiller, which kill almost all weeds.
Read the rules for the use of other herbicides: "Zenkor", "Prima", "Ground", "Hurricane Forte", "Dual Gold", "Stomp", "Gezagard", "Reglon Super".
Processing the above preparations should be carried out only during the growing season of weeds (on the green leaves), while protecting the flowering plant with a film next to it.
All indicated on the packaging norms of consumption of drugs calculated on the basis of the results of various tests and inspections. Therefore, if you strictly follow the instructions, the use of chemicals against weeds will bring the site only benefit and reliable protection.
Did you know? Herbicides are affected by weather conditions. When sunny weather is favorable for growth and development, the preparations penetrate the plants much faster and the death of weeds is accelerated. When it is cool, the opposite is true - penetrate less, the death of weeds slows down.
Soil mulching as a method of weed control
Mulching is the covering of the soil surface with mulch to improve its properties and protection. Today, weed control is widely used mulching in Western Europe, Canada and the United States. Gradually, this method becomes popular with us. The main advantages of mulching are the preservation of moisture and the favorable temperature conditions of the soil, the prevention of soil erosion, the preservation of its looseness, and a decrease in the intensity of weed growth. 
Almost all plants respond well to mulch, the main thing is to choose the right mulching material. To do this, you can use pebbles, rubble, gravel, cardboard and even newspapers wetted with water - this is an inorganic mulch. Organic includes humus, needles, sawdust, straw, hay, tree bark, nutshell, mowed grass, thin branches.
At the beginning of the season, you need to decompose the mulch into the previously cleared of weeds, well-warmed soil. If the mulch is covered with unheated soil, it will inhibit plant growth. At the end of the season, in late autumn, you need to clean the area from the remnants of mulch and burn them. When mulching seedlings need to leave a couple of centimeters of free space at the base of the plant. The first mulching must be done immediately after planting, then twice a year add a fresh layer of mulch.
Folk weed control methods
One of the popular ways to get rid of the weed in the garden is alcohol. Its essence is to sprinkle the soil with a 6% solution of ethyl alcohol a month before sowing. This helps germinate millions of weed seeds, which are easy to remove by mechanical methods before sowing, and the soil for sowing remains absolutely clean for a long time. Instead of alcohol, you can take moonshine: 1 l. on 10 liters of water. 
This amount is enough for processing 2.5 weave of land. This method is particularly suitable for those who prefer an organic approach and do not like to use chemistry in agriculture.
Mustard will help to fight with such a weed as a field bindweed. It is necessary to sow it twice in a season in places where the greatest amount of this weed grows. Only for the winter mustard must be dug up.
Another household assistant who knows how to remove weeds in the country is ordinary salt. It should be evenly sprinkle the beds around the plants, retreating a bit from their bases. Salt will not only save the area from existing weeds, but also will not allow new growth for some time.
You can spray weed plants with vinegar that burns them. Pour the right amount of “homemade acid” into the spray bottle and spray it on the weeds, avoiding contact with the crop. 
To get rid of parasitic plants on the paths or between the tiles will help soda. To do this, sprinkle a strong solution of soda with water on green weeds.
And another proven and effective home remedy for weeds is "herbicidal soap". Mix salt, vinegar and grated soap (1: 1: 1). Spray the mixture on the weeds.
Weed control in the country: myths and reality
Among the many tips on how to remove weeds, there are outdated and not very effective. For example, do not dig up the soil with or without, as advised by many of the manuals on agriculture. Digging up the soil lifts weed seeds deep in the ground to the surface, which germinate faster in the light.
It is necessary to abandon irrigation systems that irrigate large spaces in favor of drip. The latter provide targeted watering of the roots of cultivated plants, while wide-area sprinklers sprinkle weeds at the same time. 
For effective weed control, it is better to plant vegetables and flowers closely to each other, as far as their agricultural technology allows, so as not to leave room for the growth of parasitic plants.
As a preventive measure and to prevent the growth of weeds, it is necessary to carry out a rotation (crop rotation) of vegetable crops each year. It is preferable to plant crops with seedlings rather than seeds in open ground. Seeds are easily prone to clogging with strong and viable weeds.
