Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Another method is sheet mulching with cardboard and heavy hard wood mulch.
It smothers the grass or weeds but the air and rain can get through and it
brings up the worms (who seem to love the paste in cardboard) and bacterial
beneficials who eat the cardboard.

It's a good thing to do around fruit trees and permanent plantings.

Colleen

From: MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of George Cline
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 10:08 AM
To: MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [MittleiderMethodGardening] Preparing Ground - Killing off
perennial weeds

Rent a sod remover from a local Home Depot, comes off very quickly. The
hard work will then be to use a wheel barrow and then pick up all that you
cut with the sod remover. I too am a novice and tried this method this
year, and it worked like a charm!!! Clean like a morning shave. Weeds do
try and come back, but I have had to do sooo little weeding, just grabbing
any little thing that starts to pop up.

Geo

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Michael Kerber <rottenkid65@gmail.com
<mailto:rottenkid65%40gmail.com> >wrote:

>
>
> I found that just covering with clear plastic did not do the job as I
> thought it would have, the weeds and grass just grew back....then I used a
> black plastic to heat up the ground, the black plastic did a better job
> although some roots and seeds did survive the heat and lack of sun light,
> it
> was kind of surprising that some roots and seeds could survive under such
> conditions. If you can get some black plastic down during the August sun,
> maybe you still have some time this season to kill off the grass and weeds
> to make a diffrence. If not I would suggest chemicals, but that would be
my
> very very last resort...... (Try a shovel and some "elbow grease" - JK)
>
>
>

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