wood chips between raised beds?
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from Dylan Keon contains these words:
For the paths, I'm
currently thinking of weeding, covering with weed barrier cloth, and
then covering with a couple inches of wood chips.
You won't need the barrier cloth under the paths; you might want to
lay flattened card packing boxes under the chips, which will smother all
the weeds to death before they disintegrate into the soil.
Years ago we had a large amount of woodchips to disperse, so I laid
them 4 " deep between our raised vegetable beds as a temporary path.(I
didn't need the card underlay as it was clean weedfree soil). Six years
later the "temporary" paths were still good; a very few weeds were
starting to appear but could easily be tweaked out by hand. Even in a
very wet climate the paths stay clean and pleasant to walk on.
Janet.
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