Ontario Fruit Explorers

["Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hello All,

 

Summer weed mulch free and easy...  

 

Wait for people to be tossing out jute backed carpeting.  It happens every spring.  Cut 4' squares out of the carpeting.  Now cut a 5" circle in the middle, and a slit from the center to one edge.

 

 

Put the jute side up and the carpet side down and slide it around the tree.  Place them out in the spring, collect them in the fall.

 

The brown jute looks like mulch, allows water to pass through, retains moisture like mulch, and does not allow grass to grow.  Much easier to remove each fall than regular organic, loose mulch.  A lot less work too.

 

You need to remove them, as mice may find winter refuge beneath them.

 

Later,

Tom