Hey there permies,
I tried searching the forums, but wasn't able to find anything relevant. If I missed something, please feel free to let me know.
Context: Weed infestation in our annual vegetable garden. Approximately 3800 ft^2.
No till
Partially under a hoophouse. Intermittently using water-permeable DeWitt landscape fabric (not my favorite idea at all, but I was desperate against the weeds).
I'm dealing with a wild infestation of common quickweed (shaggy soldeier, galinsoga quadriradiata). I suspect it came in off of a batch of donated compost years ago and it's just been spreading every since.
For the first few years that we had it, I was able to keep up on it via intensive (time-consuming) weeding - pretty much a HEAVY weeding every single week to try to keep it at bay. Since having kiddos, I've been slowly losing the fight to it. Over the past two years, pregnancy complications and a needy newborn rendered me pretty much absent in the garden and it showed in the proliferation of this horrible weed. It basically took over the garden.
I'm trying to figure out how to decrease its presence (I'm pretty sure eradication is out of the question).
Solarization? In combination with super-duper thick mulch?
Any other brilliant ideas? I'm at my wits-end.
