[Garden] paths, deer

[Paul Nijjar]

> Therefore, I recommend:
> 
> 1.  Stop adding wood chips to paths. Even get rid of them. 
> Rake it all over to a couple of storage piles and save it
> for later when the bindweed is gone.

I see the merit of this strategy, but I am not clear as to where these
storage piles should be (especially since we have another huge pile of
woodchips sitting on the parking lot). What can we do with these
woodchips? Jason was saying that we need to get rid of them soon. 

Given the bindweed do we ever feel that we are going to
have woodchips in the garden?


> 2.  Get rid of some of the short paths that run along the
> widths of the plots.  That would reduce the area wasted on
> paths and increase the area that is actually gardened, and
> solve a portion of the bindweed problem at the same time. It
> would still leave all parts of the plots close to a path.

If we combine plots in this way then I think we should have a clear
physical way to split the long beds into sections. One of the problems
we are running into with the long narrow plot (aka plot A) is that the
only way we keep track of what crops are where is institutional
memory. I hope that a map will help this somewhat, but physical
separations will still help. 

- Paul



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