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Posted by Billy NY on August 21, 2015 at 14:14:09 from (104.228.35.235):

In Reply to: Treflan question posted by NY 986 on August 20, 2015 at 19:39:30:

If weeds are a problem, a simple alternative is green, dried like hay, grass clippings with nothing sprayed on the lawn. Till, plant, water, then mulch with this green dry hay like grass mulch. No guess work, just mulch it down with one thick layer of it, then water it flat, walk away from it. No hoeing or weeding, it makes for excellent moisture retention, and additional nitrogen. I'll post photos of the results, but I can only do that from the phone, pc won't load my images, went to type this and do that from the phone, and the internet has stopped message came up and I lost everything I was going to post.

Its a simple solution to a larger problem. I've used hay too,its just a lot more coarse, I like dry grass clippings better. I make strips of it by mowing each way, centering a swath, let the sun dry it down, so its not heavy for the lawn sweep, and that's it, dump off by the garden, pitch it in over the fence in my case, walk away. I watered this garden exactly 4x since 6-20, the photos are 8 weeks later, nothing but the garden plants and some spare area covered for more greens.

Last year, pig weed took it over, it got ahead of me for various reasons, so I let it go. In the fall I trimmed it all back to the dirt, tilled it in, loaded with pigweed seed and straw chaff from the stalks. I added 12 wheel barrow loads of a mulch I make myself, thanksgiving evening, tilled that in, it snowed 1 foot that night. I tilled it again in late March. Pigweed then covered it like a carpet. I used that as green manure and tilled that in when it was powder dry in May, we got rain again and added nitrogen as the plants broke down. Another round of weeds came up, I then tilled, immediately planted and mulched, no weeds to pull at all, nothing but harvest, and there is a big reduction of new weed seed. For a small garden, its too easy, larger is more work, but the same benefits.

If its a loss this year, till it up, plant a cover crop, let that winter, then till that in the spring, add what you like etc. you will not deal with weeds if you mulch it like this, its something I've done all the years I have planted a garden, always works and this years small garden is beyond expectation. Its a good alternative, simple and effective.

I have heard that this mulch can be like thatch, but just the one layer, is all that is needed, when I pull it up, the soil is always moist, the rain gets through and so does the water from the hose, I just use it without any nozzle and water under the plants onto the mulch. You can tell if its drying out, summer squash and cucumber leaves will wilt, tomatoes and corn seem to tolerate it better.


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