Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Carrie Shepard <carrieshepard@yahoo.com>]

Paul,  I'm using the wood chips to build soil, block weeds, and generally improve the look of of my flower beds.   We're mainly putting them 4" thick in all the paths and to cover bare ground lightly till it's time to plant in the spring.

 

We have a bare ground problem in my back yard due to heavy foot and animal traffic and years ago I was told that if I heavily mulched it, and sprinkled ground cover seeds, that I might be able to get a green covering growing there again.   We found a picture that proves there USED to be a grass covering.  After we had to gut and remodel our house and used that area as the trash pile, we've had difficulty getting anything to grow there.   The thought has occurred to me to just buy some sod and lay it down, but it was fleeting.

 

I put quite a few wood chips down and have some flower bulbs that I'm attempting to grow in containers and so we'll see how it does this year.

 

My garden certainly looks prettier and neater now with those long mulched sections and just garlic and walking onions sticking up in their beds.

 

Blessings,

Carrie

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