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Originally Posted by cjp1953
I was looking around the web about no till gardens and think I'll do that this year.We have had so much rain and snow this past winter that the ground here in North East Ohio is in flood stages all around.I think I'll mow it down and plant and use a mulch of straw or alfalfa straw that I might get free from someone at work.Then in the fall mow and plant another winter cover crop.Trying to do any work with the ground this wet can't be a good thing.
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First year just remember the weed barrier. News paper works fine. Cardboard even better.
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Scott
AKA The Redbaron
"Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system."
Bill Mollison
co-founder of permaculture
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