You may be a bit bored at home and twiddling your thumbs right now, but there is one thing that you can attend to – your garden! If you have spent the last two weeks frantically cleaning your house, or have even had some help from Leicester Cleaning Company Ace Cleaning Company now it is your gardens turn to benefit from a bit of spring cleaning!
Weeds are the scourge of the garden and every gardener from amateur to professional has an ongoing battle with the humble weed! It is best to get on top of them as soon as you can as they can quickly become unruly and over run the garden.
There are some things to do to prevent weeds from being able to grow in the first place – for example, many allotment owners will cover the bare earth with an old piece of carpet to stop weeds germinating there.
If that ship has sailed and you have already got an abundant weed population in your garden here are a few tips for getting rid of them
For weeds growing on paths and between the cracks in paving, you can buy a special tool to use to get rid of them or use a knife to run along and pull them out. If you have a large area to cover, consider using a flame gun designed for this purpose.
In spring or Autumn, you can use a weed and feed product to clear large areas of weeds. There are also special tools for pulling weeds form the lawn and chemicals that you can paint directly onto the lawn that will only affect the weed.
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