Also, the existing seed bank of weed seeds will get covered by decaying wood chips and will be denied the light they need to germinate. As the soil changes character, it will become unfavorable to many weeds, and it will be easy to kill any that get a foothold. As the wood chips decay into the soil, keep replacing them because the decayed wood will bring in earthworms and other soil microbes. This will deny light to the weed seeds and make it difficult for weeds to take hold.
To suppress the weeds, I recommend you cut down what is there and put a layer of mulch 4-6 inches thick of undyed wood chips. Even our native hay scented ferns which grow matted roots and release chemicals to suppress other plants are invaded by goldenrod and wild morning glory to name a few. The soil is full of weed seeds that have blown in or come from weeds that have gone to seed. If you would like some photos of the area I can take some after work someday.Īnything you plant on your slope will still need weeding and maintenance. I need some ideas on how to kill the weeds at first, then need ideas on what to plant or place on the slope to keep the weeds from coming back.Īny help that you can give me would be appreciated. We have planted a few trees on the hillside which have established themselves pretty good but the weeds are just out of control. At least once a summer I have to take a weekend or two just to weed the hillside which has many different weeds including poison ivy which I am highly reactive to. The majority of our soil is either shale or clay so the sloped area has no ground cover. The remaining earth was used to flatten the area around the leech bed and pushed towards the neighbors property which created the slope. I'm told by the neighbor that when the house was in construction the contractor cut into the existing native slope for the house foundation and installed a septic system and leech bed next to the house. The slope is about 50-60 degrees at its steepest. Approximately 150' long and 10' high at the highest point. (for example, a link back to their website).I have a steep slope on one side of my yard. The license to see if the designer is requesting attribution This icon can be used for both Personal &Ĭommercial purposes and projects, but please check Converting it to an ICO, JPEG or WebP image format or file type should also be pretty simple (we hope to add that feature to Iconduck soon). If you need this icon available in another format, it should be pretty straight forward to download it as an SVG image file, and then import it into apps like Easil, Photoshop, Snappa or Stencil. It's part of the icon set " Public Information Symbols", which has 186 icons in it. It's available to be downloaded in SVG and PNG formats (available in 256, 512, 10 PNG sizes). This open source icon is named "warning steep slope failure landslide" and is licensed under the open source CC0 license.
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