Back to an earlier part of this thread; there's nothing that says "if you
start with mulch you must keep the system in mulch" Ruth Stout said so early
on- in answer to the poor denuded fools who told her mulch wasn't practical
because the soil couldn't warm up fast enough, she said "just pull the mulch
back, it'll be nice DARK soil underneath and it'll warm up quicker! (she
gardened in near-arctic Conneticut, fcs) I usually use mulch to blitz a lawn
or cover a gravel parking lot, and by about year three I've a bank of seed
containing nearly every plant I need, and I mulch here and there and leave
it off here and there and put compost heaps and towers (planted) here and
there. And I don't need to plant very much at all, I mainly select which
plants live and/or get eaten and/or mulched and/or trimmed.
The process goes "sloth leads to learning leads to chaos"
-Rick
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