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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

Gene GeRue wrote:

> On Mar 31, 2007, at 9:51 AM, VAN DELL JORDAN wrote:
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> > That last one refers to a book: "The Ruth Stout No
> > Work Garden Book".  Is any one familiar with that?
> > Recommended?
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> Stout's book is a classic. Basically, you plant stuff and then cover  
> it with a thick layer of straw. Voila!, no weed germination, soil  
> retains moisture, straw rots down to humus. Many of us here use a  
> variation of her method, essentially just a lot of mulch.
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But don't buy what you can just look at in the library, especially when 
it doesn't take a whole book just to say "dump on more hay" (just a 
mountain of the actual hay itself).  I'm in a small impoverished county 
with few serious gardeners, yet there are multiple copies around the 
branch libraries.

Bill
S. Oregon coast