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- From: Nicole <nbrown AT bbtel.com>
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- Subject: [Market-farming] Re: Mulch on a big scale
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:17:41 -0400
Willie McKemie wrote: >>Mulches are not very effective on many of our problem weeds: bermuda grass, johnson grass, morning glory.<<
I have found that to be true here as well. Is there anything that IS effective against those weeds? Thus far, I have only had a home garden to contend with, and have hand-pulled when they got out of control - but still they get out of control!
In one section of my garden (the one that keeps getting abandoned), I laid carpet for a year, and the next year covered thickly with old hay - I did notice a considerable reduction in weeds all the way through about July of this year... that section is in tomatoes this year... and the weeds have gotten out of control again.
I think I have figured out that leaving the paths in grass and trying to keep them mowed is *not* working, especially for the bermuda grass which creeps into the beds. Hopefully a program of never letting the weeds go to seed will eventually afford me a reduction of the crabgrass and morning glory.
I garden organically, BTW, and have a half-acre in the works for a market garden in 2005.
Nicole in KY
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[Market-farming] Re: Mulch on a big scale,
Paul Bucciaglia, 09/22/2003
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- [Market-farming] Re: Mulch on a big scale, Nicole, 09/23/2003
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RE: [Market-farming] Re: Mulch on a big scale,
Wiediger, Alison, 09/23/2003
- Re: [Market-farming] Re: Mulch on a big scale, Alan Whitaker, 09/23/2003
- [Market-farming] Re: Mulch on a big scale, Roger Weeks, 09/24/2003
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