Weeding

Weeding of the Common Roof

Since gardeners agree in their contracts to keep the rooftop weeded and looking lovely, we came up with a protocol for weeding. 

Each gardener will weed a section of the "wilderness" and/or part of the patio.  Weeding will be ongoing over the summer.  Growth slows down, though, so it shouldn't be overly time consuming. 

The wilderness includes the ground outside the individual planter boxes that are inside the railings.  The green roof on the other side of the barriers is maintained by an outside contractor.

If a gardener cannot do weeding, there are other tasks that can be done to contribute to the garden.

Weeding Tools

All of these are in the garden room.

Hand hoe -- I noticed we don't have one!  I will see about tracking one down 

The end of the patio tool.  Drag it between the patio stones and then sweep up the debris!

The claws will loosen the weeds and the stirrup makes it easy to lift the weeds. 

Fill the cloth planter bag as you weed.  

Weeding Tips

General Tips

1.       Weeding right after a rainfall is so much easier than trying to get a weed out of dry soil. 

2.       Grab a black cloth planter to fill with weeds as you go. 

3.       Empty the weed bag into the composter bin marked:  BROWN/BRUN

DO NOT ADD DISEASED PLANTS! If you see foam, blight, or lots of insects, take the weeds to the garbage downstairs.  If you are in doubt, take it to the downstairs garbage.

4.       To avoid weeds from coming back, get the whole root and take out the weed before it flowers!

Weeding the Patio

Tools:  Patio Tool

            Broom

            Weed bag

1.       Put the pic between the tiles and pull back. 

2.       Sweep up the pulled weeds. 

3.       Toss the weeds into the composter bin marked BROWN/BRUN.

Weeding the Wilderness

Tools:  Weeding Stirrup Tool

            Weed Bag

            Gloves

Protect Lovingly:

Long grasses

Clover

Seedums that spread from outside the railings

1.       The prongs on the tool are great for loosening the weeds.

2.       The stirrup is great for pulling the weeds up.

3.       Be careful pulling up prickly weeds by using gloves and pulling from as near the ground  
          as possible.

4.       Clean weeds go into the compost bin marked BROWN/BRUN

5.       Diseased weeds are to be put in the blue dumpster in the garbage room.

Where do I weed?

This is completely NOT to scale!  
To Be Updated for 2016

Wilderness		North						The Corner
West	15	14 Jesse	13 Sonja	12 Ian	11 Mike/Rob	10Mark
	Edith
									The
	16								Curve
		1 Evelyn	2	3 Amina		9 Robert	The Meadow
Garden Room						8 Marta
						6		7Barbara
		Building				4 Pamela	5Christine/Rhi
								Compost:	1. Cooking
						Compost	Meadow		2. Green
									3. Wood
								Forgotten Spot