I have to say that our garden is looking fabulous this season!Thank you
to everyone that has removed the grass and weeds on our walkways and
added wood chips between the plots. If you haven't had the chance, please
do this around your plot. The ground is nice and soft after all the
rain last weeks so it's a great time to pull out weeds!
Soon the soil will be warm enough for us to start MULCHING
with those wood chips. Remember that these wood chips are fresh, not
like the expensive dark ones you would buy at a garden store. This
means that they have not had any time to decompose yet. If you put
these wood chips directly onto your soil, they will bind nitrogen from the soil-
this is definitely not good for all your plants which that need
nitrogen! The solution is 4-5 sheets of newspaper between the soil and
the wood chips. In the fall, once the wood chips have baked in the sun all
summer, they can be safely mixed into the soil (along with the
newspaper) to make great planting bed for next season.
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