Here’s the cruel joke: tilling doesn’t kill weeds—it educates them. When you churn the soil, you bring buried weed seeds up to the sunlight, giving them a VIP invitation to germinate. You’ve basically thrown a weed party and forgot to lock the door.
Studies show that tilling can actually increase the weed population by 300% in the following season. So you till to get rid of weeds, then end up tilling again for new weeds, creating a vicious cycle that’s basically the soil version of a hamster wheel. And you’re the hamster.
The organic farmers call this “the tillage paradox”—you break your back tilling, and the weeds just laugh and multiply. They’re like the cockroaches of the plant world, except with better PR.
