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RE: Mowing (?) the garden!!?!
3 plants wide is not the best unless you can safely navigate to the middle. I've found 2 plants wide to be best for that reason and I worked in a 1 plant wide bed greenhouse that lost so much potential with space as opposed to 2 wide. I just made a bed with store bought mulch and just threw it down all the grass died within a week or 2 underneath and the weeds that come up have weak roots so they're easy to pull. As long as all those weeds are around you want to pay extra attention to pest mitigation.
Thanks, makes sense! Discussed with the wife yesterday, and plan to put the fourth row of shade cloth down over the weeds, and see what if any difference there is. A work-out is a good thing, but so is efficiency! :)
Might need more than the shade cloth to kill the weeds. I used a good amount of mulch.
Yeah, we have a branch pile that we intend to rent a chipper for, then put the wood chips down on the paths.
Oh, guess I forgot to mention: the third row of shade cloth that I put down, I hoed the space it was going over, removing all the weeds. That took a half hour or so and I was sweating profusely by the end of it. So, if I can achieve the same results with just putting the shade cloth down and not hoeing, then I can get exercise in another manner. :)