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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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