Organic Weeding for Free!

So your garden is exploding with growth because you have been following all my advice and you stop to ask yourself...."what about all these weeds?"  Organic weeding is a interesting topic.  The old fashioned way with no chemicals is to hand weed everything, and this works, but is very labor intensive.  My garden is too big to hand weed so I guess I will have to use some chemicals.

WRONG!  I would never use a "weed killer" chemical product anywhere near the food I am growing!  I am going to give you a great way to weed organically on a shoestring budget.

Cost: Free
Materials:
Boxes!

The only thing you need to weed organically is boxes.  You can get them from different places, like the back of the supermarket.  The liquor store.  Any business that will let you have them.  Ask to speak to the manager and usually they will let you have the boxes that are already broken down, which is perfect for our mission.

First you cut the box and lay it out flat.  Then you cover the grass with it and in a few days to a week, the grass under the box will be dead.  Remove the box and rake up the dead grass and our finished!  It's so easy and it costs nothing.  I got my boxes from the post office (the post office really frowns on you using the boxes for anything but priority shipping, but I spend hundreds of dollars with the post office every week and I figured since I never use this particular size box for anything, I was ok for using them to grow more plants that I will be shipping!)

These are pictures of my sugar baby water melon plants getting weeded.  I am strongly debating buying a bale of mulching hay once I have "weeded" my grass out, but this is the shoestringvegetablegarden blog so I am really gonna have to weigh it out.  The plants don't absolutely have to have the mulch, but it approves the appearance of the crop and it's good for the fruit to be off the ground so it's not in direct contact with the soil.  The soil has many bugs and insects that can ruin the fruit.  In truth, watermelon grows on the ground and it always has!