[permaculture] weed destruction in large scale paper&mulch
mIEKAL aND
dtv at mwt.net
Mon Sep 10 14:32:49 EDT 2007
I just run my string trimmer/ push mower over the area first & bring
everything down to ground level. If the material hasn't gone to seed
you can just let it lay. Then your cardboard & paper sits tighter to
the ground, & does a better job of suppressing future growth.
~mIEKAL
On Sep 10, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Andrew French wrote:
> I am doing a large scale landscaping project and I just wanted to
> put this
> question out there to all you permaculture peeps, even though it's
> probably
> been answered a bunch before.
>
> We usually sodkick and weed the area that we are preparing for the
> paper/mulch treatment. This project we're doing is so large that we're
> considering not weeding, just paper/mulch. There are a lot of
> dandelions,
> and the soil is very sandy. I was considering flame weeding or a
> vinegar
> herbicide.
>
> Has anybody done this on a large scale and is it wise to forgo the
> weeding
> part of the landscaping?
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