A good place to start this blog, I think would be the garden project. Every year for the last several years we have kept a garden here, and every year the garden gets overrun by grass and becomes just a large field of grass and weeds with a few struggling garden plants in it. Every year that is until this year.
This year I opted for the 'nuclear option' when it comes to weed control. The plan being based on 4'x6' rubber stall mats, weed barrier cloth, and mulch. The rubber mats were quite costly, being about $30 each on a good day, but having used them for a number of other projects here and knowing they can be reused year after year, I took the plunge.
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| The beginning(pay no mind to the failed greenhouse project in the middle back. The wind tore up the plastic and bent the fence wire before I could get ends on it. |
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| Not long after Planting |
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| Now. Notice the porcelain ScareCat used to keep squirrels out. |
This has worked wonders. I have pulled a blade of grass here and there, but it is much more manageable than previous years gardens. The squash, zucchini, and cucumber plants have been extremely productive, so much so that we've been giving a lot away. The tomatoes are just now beginning to produce, and the onions, peas, and beans(in the trough and outside the matted area in the back) haven't quite reached their prime yet.
For those wondering, I intend to pull up all the mats this fall and till to allow the soil to aerate over winter.
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