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- From: "darren simo" <wannafarm@hotmail.com>
- To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
- Cc: inquiries@greenharvest.com.au
- Subject: Re: [permaculture] Living mulch garden update
- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 22:17:40 +0000
Hi All,
Here a good site selling living mulch with an explaination of the use.
http://www.greenharvest.com.au/links/cat_links.htm
Darren.
Mark wrote:
>
> 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
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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
- [permaculture] Greetings & Green Manure, Kirby Fry, 07/19/2002
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Re: [permaculture] Living mulch garden update,
Mark, 07/19/2002
- Re: [permaculture] Living mulch garden update, darren simo, 07/20/2002
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