We use silage tarp to stomp out our garden plots. Using sand bags to weigh it down, it does a good job after a few months of leaving you with bare soil. For problem areas we will transplant into woven ground cover, which we have burned holes in at the appropriate spacing, this can be reused. After several seasons of keeping weed pressure down, you will go through the seed bank providing you aren't allowing any weeds to go to seed.
End of the season for us is, clean out all the beds. Spread compost. Lay our silage tarp. Garden is warmer, drier, and weed free so we beat all the tractor farmers into the fields for planting. For gardeners you could use cardboard, or any tarp really. Imagine flipping over a rock or log that is a bare spot of rich soil and a ton of insects.
Or professionally made compost, or homemade compost. Whatever you can get. Many municipalities collect leaves and make compost free for the community.
Farming and gardening have a learning curve. It takes work, which most liberals don't like to do a lot of. So for them a pile of soil on cardboard is a garden.
Really, growing in a bag of soil isn't a bad idea for renters who have limited space or just a balcony.
As a professional farmer (you, not me), I'm curious about your views on the Back to Eden method for gardening. I've watched the video a few times, looks almost idyllic, but I can't help but wonder if the BtE method is suitable for all climates.
For wood chips in your actual garden, it would be good to have a healthy active biology, that is to say, healthy soil will break down and incorporate those wood chips better than poor soil. This is the microbes and fungi at work. Poor soil can be negatively effected by wood chips in the garden in that they can pull nitrogen during decomposition.
I prefer a thick layer of compost and grass clippings
We use silage tarp to stomp out our garden plots. Using sand bags to weigh it down, it does a good job after a few months of leaving you with bare soil. For problem areas we will transplant into woven ground cover, which we have burned holes in at the appropriate spacing, this can be reused. After several seasons of keeping weed pressure down, you will go through the seed bank providing you aren't allowing any weeds to go to seed.
End of the season for us is, clean out all the beds. Spread compost. Lay our silage tarp. Garden is warmer, drier, and weed free so we beat all the tractor farmers into the fields for planting. For gardeners you could use cardboard, or any tarp really. Imagine flipping over a rock or log that is a bare spot of rich soil and a ton of insects.
Use cardboard like the retards did at CHAZ with store-bought soil? 😂😂
Or professionally made compost, or homemade compost. Whatever you can get. Many municipalities collect leaves and make compost free for the community.
Farming and gardening have a learning curve. It takes work, which most liberals don't like to do a lot of. So for them a pile of soil on cardboard is a garden.
Really, growing in a bag of soil isn't a bad idea for renters who have limited space or just a balcony.
As a professional farmer (you, not me), I'm curious about your views on the Back to Eden method for gardening. I've watched the video a few times, looks almost idyllic, but I can't help but wonder if the BtE method is suitable for all climates.
For wood chips in your actual garden, it would be good to have a healthy active biology, that is to say, healthy soil will break down and incorporate those wood chips better than poor soil. This is the microbes and fungi at work. Poor soil can be negatively effected by wood chips in the garden in that they can pull nitrogen during decomposition.
I prefer a thick layer of compost and grass clippings
I watched that too, certainly looks interesting. If I ever manage to not be lazy and also get my own small plot of land, I'd grow stuff for myself.