Gardening With Nature, and No Weeds, Woodchip Gardening
I am a big proponent of gardening all of my vacant lots, partly to provide food for those around me, and partly because it irritates me to see the waste of resources involved in the American obsession with raising lawn grass.
Unfortunately I seldom have the time to do all of the work that is involved. A few of my lots I have set up community garden sharecroppers who share some of their crops in exchange for free use of my land. All that I have to do is pay the mortgage and taxes, kind of expensive veggies, but better than a crop of lawn.
A few of my lots I garden myself, but with very limited time working in the woods this time of year, I have to make my gardens as labor free as possible. My method so far has been primarily keeping enough grass clippings and leaves on the soil between my crops to keep any weeds from seeing the sun.
Lately I have been experimenting with woodchips due to the fact that they last longer, dont blow around the neighborhood like leaves, and dont melt away quickly like grass clippings do.
I was happy when somebody sent the following link that shows another guy doing the same thing that I am only on a much larger scale.
Click on the link below or picture at the top and enjoy the video.
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