Here in Michigan, we've had a significant amount of rain and storms, alternating with extreme heat. Around the beginning of the month, I was patting myself on the back -- my garden looked awesome, with very few weeds and great growth of all of my plants. By this week, the combo of high heat and lots of rain made my garden go from quaint Potager Garden to Crazy Jungle in the Backyard. (My apologies to the neighbors).

We've spent some time this week clearing up the weeds and trying to get some semblance of order back in our backyard grocery store. I have noticed enough to give two thumbs up to the Preen Organic Vegetable Garden Weed Preventer. As I told you all earlier this year, I was testing it out, and I put it in part of my garden. Actually, I put it down in the paths, as I figured that would be the most noticable. The paths where I laid the Preen down heavily, after first completely clearing it of weeds and roots of pernicious weeds looks great. Only a few weeds here and there (mostly purslane, which comes up easily). The paths where there was no Preen are not recognizable as paths at all anymore. Hurray for Preen. We'll be using that next year in the raspberry area, which is by far the worst part of the garden for weeds.

Despite laying down about 6" of mulch in each of our beds -- a friend with a landscaping company had a mulch that his client cancelled on using  so he gave me 3 yards -- there were still weeds.

Honestly, I am a little leery about using a chemical to prevent weeds in the garden...the whole point of gardening, for me, is to have chemical free foods, as well as to save on groceries. BUT....this may be a great way to keep the work in the garden to a minimum. There'll still be work to be done, just not as much.

Has anyone else used Organic Preen Weed Preventer for Vegetable Gardens, and if so, what did you think of it? How did it work for you? I'd love to know!

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