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- From: Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>
- To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [permaculture] Living mulch garden update
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 07:37:01 -0500
The concept is fairly straight forward, I plant most of my plants into a growing carpet of white clover. This is my third year with the practice. I mow the clover to control weeds and to generate mulch for the soil. The is also quite a bit of black medic volunteering in the beds, though this tends to decline rapidly in the late summer. Many of my transplants were from root trainers, a very narrow but tall type of pot, to plant I just jacked open the soil with a spading fork and inserted the plug. Worked great. For direct seeded crops I use a weed burning LP gas torch, two hot passes pretty much knocks out the clover, but also tends to encourage crab grass, a prostrate c-4 annual. If you have any specific questions I would be glad to answer them.
Mark
At 07:21 PM 7/18/02 -0400, you wrote:
Message text written by INTERNET:permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
>I'm still happy with the living mulch garden. <
Mark,
You may have posted this earlier and I missed it, but could you elaborate a
bit on what you did with the living mulch?
Like, what is it, what's the theory behind it, etc.
Thanks,
Gene Monaco
Knoxville, TN
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[permaculture] Living mulch garden update,
Mark, 07/17/2002
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[permaculture] Living mulch garden update,
EFMonaco, 07/18/2002
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Re: [permaculture] Living mulch garden update,
Mark, 07/19/2002
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Re: [permaculture] Living mulch garden update,
Ute Bohnsack, 07/19/2002
- Re: [permaculture] Living mulch garden update, Mark, 07/19/2002
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Re: [permaculture] Living mulch garden update,
Ute Bohnsack, 07/19/2002
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Re: [permaculture] Living mulch garden update,
Mark, 07/19/2002
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