Higgs Boson wrote:
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Enjoyed your account beaucoup!

Where are you located, if I may ask?

mid-Michigan, USoA, Saginaw River Valley.


Also, looks like you're dealing with vastly more
acreage than my little backyard garden. Kudos!

80,000sq ft (1.84 acres), most of it mulched or
planted with low maintenance perennials. a few
gardens are slated for replacement each year and
some get new mulch or different plants added.

the grass is about 5% of what it used to be.
eventually i'll likely get rid of that too.

veggie gardens are pretty low maintenance as
once they are in and weeded once or twice they
are thickly planted so not much else gets going
other than a few weeds here or there. any empty
spaces i plant peas or beans. mulch in some
gardens. a few thousand square feet of these.

several mixed and semi-wild gardens that are
fairly established. a few days a season spent
weeding or planting or trimming/harvesting green
manure and mulch.

the strawberry patches, mostly established and
only needing some spot weeding or thinning to
restore growth. some of the green manure harvested
in other places goes onto these. after the mid-
summer harvest of strawberries i plant peas, beans,
soybeans scattered on them and then mulch lightly
and water if needed. the peas/beans provide shade
and perk up the soil until the frosts take them
out. the ever-bearing strawberries keep blooming
and setting fruit right up until the frosts.

other wild spaces like the north hedge and the
east side on the other side of the large drainage
ditch are very low maint places. i put about 1
day each into those during the growing season.

i spent more time weeding out morning glory
plants this season. trying to head them off
before they get worse. and once in a while i pick
an area in the limestone mulch and get the weeds
out. not usually too many, but it has to be spot
checked/weeded.


songbird