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Riki wrote:
I pull anything that grows bigger than my plants but leave all the 'weeds' that are low growing (living mulch?).
For carrots, I mix a jar of carrot, lettuce, radish, beetroot seeds and scatter them in the bed. The radish and lettuce grow quickly and smother most of the weeds. Then you pick these and allow the small carrots and beets to grow up.
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Riki wrote:
I pull anything that grows bigger than my plants but leave all the 'weeds' that are low growing (living mulch?).
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edge of the boreal mixed woods zone, just east of the Rocky Mtn Foothills, z 2/3
edge of the boreal mixed woods zone, just east of the Rocky Mtn Foothills, z 2/3
edge of the boreal mixed woods zone, just east of the Rocky Mtn Foothills, z 2/3
edge of the boreal mixed woods zone, just east of the Rocky Mtn Foothills, z 2/3
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Cohan Fulford wrote:The thing that always amazes me most in these discussions of weeds and cover crops is folks encouraging or even planting clover! White clover is very common here, presumably as an escape from agriculture- this is a farming area, and I assume clovers have been heavily sown as forage. I'm quite sure that if left to its own devices in the vegetable garden, there wouldn't be much growing except clover, it seems way to vigorous to grow with anything other than maybe shrubs and trees, forming densely matted growth that excludes much of anything else.. I'll certainly never get rid of it here and no point tryng (there are large swathes of it in our mowed areas, mixed with grasses, native plants and other invasives like dandelions and Cerastium arvense etc.). So, it will never be gone, but I try to discourage it (and even more so the tall red clover), in areas of native vegetation, and try to keep them out of areas where I am specifically growing something- seems like way too much competition to me! Do other people really find you can grow crops through clover?
Renate Howard wrote:
Dandelions are slightly allelopathic to garden plants - they don't thrive if they're close enough to touch. Just my experience. I like them in the lawn and pasture but keep them out of my vegetables and herbs.
Rachell Koenig wrote:
One more thing to think about is how very beneficial it is to leave roots when you can, to rot in the soil. Smothering does this
Thelma McGowan wrote:
the other day I had a small panic attack! I realized that I had eaten almost all of the lambs quarters......it is so yummy, what if I run out? I have to let it go to seed so I can Have some next year.....Last year I was ripping it out and feeding it to the chickens along with the amaranth and shepards purse and mustard
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