How do I get rid of weeds naturally?

Weeds represent perhaps the most unpleasant part of the entire yard. They are uninvited guests that benefit by robbing your plants of the nutrition, water, and sunlight they deserve. And despite what steps you may take, they always seem to crawl back. Most of the standard treatments available in the market today are chemical based. There many other evils associated with chemical usages like the foul odor and the lasting impact it has on the soil.

Well, that can all be avoided by using some simple techniques. These are both natural and guaranteed to get rid of all those nasty weeds while ensuring that you never have to deal with them again.

The first method is using mulch, which remains the best method to get rid of weeds naturally. It is effective because mulch is used in so many ways. All of which depends on the needs of the gardener. More importantly, according to the needs of the garden itself. For example, you can use it on its own and it would still deliver the results that you’re after. Or you could use them with a landscape fabric surrounding the weed hit area. The barrier not only cuts off the supply of sunlight to the weeds, it also stops them from growing in the first place.

Another way to get rid of weeds is to concisely cut off their sunlight. The best way forward is using a newspaper. Take a newspaper, fold it and place it strategically around the weeds. This would cut off the supply of its sunlight. Apart from that, using it to further make sure weeds never grow again, is to cover them up with mulch. Mulch and newspaper fabric on top of weeds would make sure that weeds in that area never grow again.

Salt is another effective way. The rock salt is perhaps one of the cheapest and most effective ways to cut off the growth of weeds. Sprinkling it on top of the weeds is an effective way of eradicating current weeds but also ensuring that no weeds grow in their places inside. Another benefit of using salt is that you can apply it in many places that a lawn mower can’t normally reach. However, you need to apply it carefully. It can leave the ground barren and unfit for any other plants as well if not applied carefully.

And perhaps the easiest way is to outnumber them. There is always an intense competition going on for resources in the garden. Each and every plant wants as much space as possible to grow. Weeds are usually weaker than the plants as the owners aren’t caring for them as they are for the plants. Simply increasing the number of plants in the garden would cause the weeds to die out due to the increased competition for the resources.