The weeds in the victory garden come in zones.
Zone 1, planted early with corn and onions, is developing a robust population of weeds that look remarkably like the composition of the surrounding lawn. This zone was tilled only once.
Zone 2, tilled a second time before I started planting in it, is sort of transitional, with less of the lawn-type grasses.
Zone 3, which had three tillings before planting, has some sort of broadleaf weeds that I haven't identified yet, plus two kinds of grass - one of which looks remarkably like corn, though I didn't scatter seed corn around those areas, and the other is... I think it's St. Augustine grass, and when I bought the Sunnyvale place the front and back lawns were composed entirely of this stuff, and it took a lot of killin'. Like, multiple applications of glyphosate.
At least the soil here is fairly soft, so I guess if I go around uprooting the unwanted vegetation before it gets its roots too well established, that should more or less take care of it. And maybe the fall treatment, for the entire area that's destined to become next year's vegetable patch, involves a spray of glyphosate, a tilling or two, and sowing with some sort of inoffensive winter cover crop (probably clover of some sort).
Meanwhile, I gotta keep the weeds in check, even in the corn patches. And... I still figure on scalping the lawn surrounding the current garden area and covering it with weed barrier; perhaps if I extend that to next year's planting zone, I won't need the glyphosate come fall?
(The current victory garden is located in the zone originally designated as future goat pasture, but with goats having been reclassified as a Next Year Thing and life having gotten awfully busy, I think come fall we'll be reconsidering whether we'll be having time to take care of goats. Maybe they just don't happen, and their pasture remains vegetable garden.)
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