Gardening the backyard UPDATE: Putting down straw and cardboard.
For those of you farmers and gardeners out there, I recommend putting down cardboard and straw or hay around your plants. This way you won't have to weed eat as much. This should keep the weeds from coming up in your garden. You can also use mulch.
You can read my blog from earlier last week after getting our backyard tilled and planted here...
https://steemit.com/homesteading/@hippie-witha-gun/finished-gardening-the-backyard-after-getting-it-tilled-featuring-missy
This week we went back and put down cardboard and hay around our plants. You put the cardboard down first and then cover the cardboard with hay like so.
And yes, Missy came out again to help me HA HA. Where would we be without our little garden kitty???
And here is what the rest of the yard looks like now:
We went around every pot like so...
And around the Blueberries...
And around the Tomato plants...
Missy says, "Where's my catnip plants at!?"
Thanks for looking. Hope you like our backyard garden. :-)
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The cardboard works great! I've used it several times underneath my raised beds!
You can use mulch too but in our case the hay was cheaper. We do have a wood chipper but it isn't currently running at the moment. Or else we would of put down our own mulch.
Cardboard seems better to keep the weeds down. They suffocate the ground better! After it's gone I used mulch tho. ;)
howdy there @hippie-witha-gun hey that backyard is looking good,
every plant looks super healthy, are you fertilizing them with something or just rich soil?
Where we are if we had that kind of cover we'd be overrun with scorpions! We work hard to make their isn't any type of cover of any kind
because if there is, even a piece of wood, there will be scorpions under there.
but since you don't have that problem the straw and cardboard is a tremendous idea, save tons of labor and time doing the labor!
I was telling Papa Pepper that I still have yet to find a Scorpion in the wild. Same with rattlesnakes. My neighbor who lives on the property across from us has found and killed two great big TImber Rattlesnakes so far in the last couple of weeks just from plowing his field. I go off in the woods trying to find a rattlesnake and have no luck SMH.
oh man you and papa-pepper! a couple of wildmen that's for sure!
you actually go looking for them..wow. and what if you find them, what are you gonna do?
Make a blog silly! And then let them go. That's what I did with the last two snakes I caught. Take some pictures, and maybe even a short video. Did you not see the post of the big black Rat Snake I caught? Beautiful snake! He was at least 5 and a half feet long.
I even blogged that little bird I caught over the weekend. I never know what I'm going to catch next.
wow ok, amazing. yes just like papa-pepper and it freaks everyone out so that's great to make a name on here!
Good reminder to deter weeds. Your garden is shaping up nicely.
Thanks Mike! I'm going to make another updated post soon of the potatoes we planted the week before last. The plants are starting to come up now.