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Hi!
I'm starting a new vegetable garden, about 200 sq feet. Right now I'm clearing the weedy ground, just finished digging up a series of tree stumps. It's seaside, with a little poor soil over sand. I'll ad 2 cu yards of topsoil once clear.
My neighbor said I should treat the whole area with weed killer before putting new topsoil. I really don't like the idea of using weed killer, I'm trying to make wholesome food. But dang, these weed roots are seemingly endless, I think all perennial weeds, too, and lots of rhizomey weeds. Plus, the stumps I dug out are persimmons -- which self propogate! How much should I worry about the tree root remnants staying alive and turning into a bunch of new trees?? I was getting ready to refill the holes, then wondered if I'm shooting myself in the foot, if I should apply a herbicide to the cut roots before I cover them??
Hope you can help -- thanks!
BTW been reading a neat book on companion planting and will share -- stragegy of planting flowers as well as vegetables, because they attract the bees/butterflies that will pollinate the crops! Neat.
