Benefits of Weeds - weed vitalitty

 Yes, weeds can be a bummer, but many gardeners don’t know there are many more benefits of weeds than downsides.

Besides, they’re fairly easily controlled in the garden with a thick mulch.

The lawn is definitely trickier.

I had one client who’s front lawn had more weeds than grass!

I knew it would take years for me to balance the soil to the point where the grass won the battle, so I was out there every couple of weeks pulling the weeds by hand.

She was a nice client, but I knew she wasn’t thrilled with the weeds, and I don’t blame her, but it’s important to understand why the weeds are there.

Weeds are helpful plants for your organic garden because each beneficial weed thrives in a specific imbalanced soil condition and works to bring the soil back into balance.

So if you’ve heard that healthy soil grows weeds just as well as the plants you’re trying to grow, it’s a myth.

If the weeds are doing better than your lawn or garden plants, it’s because the soil isn’t optimally healthy and the weeds have set up shop to fix that.

That’s what was happening with my client’s lawn, so my long-term goal was to help fix the soil in order to speed up the process.

But if time didn’t matter, I could have let the weeds take care of it.