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songbird writes:
Terry Coombs wrote:
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But any way you cut it , now is the time to be starting seeds for
transplanting later . So far I have onions , 2 kinds of 'maters 2 more I
picked up seeds for today kale , lettuce , cauliflower , eggplants and
cayenne peppers in the starter trays . And they're all sitting on a low
table right in front of a southeast facing window where they get strong sun
all morning then great indirect light the rest of the day . I guess it's
time to get the tiller out and make sure it runs well . I'll be enlarging
the garden plot this year , after a great first year garden and that machine
has some seroius groundbreaking to do .

so much easier to smother it and retain most of
the existing soil structure...

(we've not had a good tilling vs. smothering thread
in a while have we? )

In my experience, whether mulch will kill lawn comes down to how
nice a lawn it is. The most common desirable turf grasses seem to
die really easy with mulch. The lawn weeds and invasive grasses
just laugh and thank you for removing the competition.

Of course, whether tilling those will kill them also varies.

My prefered garden expansion is to till, then put on a thick mulch
and plant *nothing*. For that season, I just dig out any green
thing that raises its head.

In reality, I get to do that for maybe 20% of new ground. Too much
to-do list and not enough daylight for my ideals.

or if you'd like to cut down on how much time you
do spend tilling, plot out the garden rows so that
you are only tilling the slices where you will be
actually planting and leave the rest to be smothered.
most tillers will let you remove blades so that you
can till thinner slices.


songbird


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