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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