Keeping your garden and yard free of weeds can be a never-ending process for you from spring until fall. However, to help your vegetation's health and growth, you need to use measures to keep weeds out of your yard. Here are some recommendations to help you keep good weed control on your landscaping and yard.

Stay On Top of Growth

One of the best ways to keep control over the growth of weeds in your yard is to do it on a regular basis. If you let your garden and landscaping go for a week without taking care of the weeds that grow every day, you will end up with an overwhelming amount of weeds that will be more difficult to pull up because they will be more mature with thicker stems and deeper roots. 

Use a simple tool, such as a hoe or a stirrup hoe to remove small weed germinations that sprout up from the soil. Because you get them when they are small, they are easier to scrape from the soil, and with a long-handled tool, you won't have to bend over. If you do need to remove mature weeds, make sure you remove them when the soil is moist and softer. If the soil is dry and hard, use the garden hose to soak the area and let the moisture seep down into the soil for a couple of hours before you pull the weeds. 

Use Prevention Strategies

There are several methods you can use in your yard and garden to prevent weeds from growing in your landscaping areas. A good landscape fabric makes a solid barrier to block the growth of weeds by blocking the sunlight and water from reaching them. Look for a heavy-duty landscaping material to cover the soil and apply a layer of mulch or gravel to keep it in place and also help promote weed prevention.

Mulch over the soil in your landscaping areas is another method to prevent weeds. This single-layer barrier will reduce weed growth because it blocks sunlight and oxygen from reaching the weed seeds. A thick layer of mulch will also make weed seeds take root more shallowly if they do grow, so it will be easy for you to pull them from the soil. As an added benefit, mulch made of wood chips or bark will actually benefit your soil when it slowly decomposes back into the ground.

Contact a local weed control service to get more tips.