The main equipment you need are black or clear plastic and something ... the soil to cool and dry before planting. When weeds take over your garden, prevention is better than a cure.

If your weed problem is particularly severe, you can lay a square of black polythene over the affected ... Alan says that, although technically his garden is all organic, he made one exception ...

How is that helping the garden? Or, as happened to two different people I know, they apply an herbicide to kill weeds and forget their trees are growing there too. Several trees in each yard died.

Dimension is not as well known. It is available in a product called Hi-Yield Turf and Ornamental Weed Control. This product is sold at independent garden stores. Preen is sold just about anywhere ...

MY garden is unruly, overgrown, neglected, and if I didn't unconditionally love it and its potential, I'd say ugly. Within the untouched mossy grass, are hundreds of dandelions and weeds.