"James" wrote in
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Brooklyn1, are most Brooklynites about on your same intellectual
level, or are most of them rather sane and decent ????


James




I live really close to Brooklyn and most of them are nicer. He COULD use a
short lesson from Dale Carnegie.

That being said, there are alternatives to the chemical solution. 25 ft^2
is really not that hard to mulch. If you are not having success with your
current mulch, it's time to try a different one.

Do you start your flowers from seed, or do you use seedlings? If the
latter, spreading some black plastic garbage bags over the plot before you
plant them, and then using a trowel to punch holes in the plastic where you
want to plant should work just fine. You can then cover the bags with
whatever mulch you like best- the bags will stop almost anything else from
growing.

Salt hay also works wonders, if you can get it. It's a beach grass, and
suppresses weeds because it high in, well, salt.

Someone else mentioned newspaper. That works well too, and like the plastic
bags, just lay them out over the plot, punch a hole where you want to plant
a flower, and after you're done planting, cover it all up with your cedar.

If you're planting seeds, things get more complicated.

All best,

Chris