[Garden] paths

[s3lyons at scimail.uwaterloo.ca]

I forget where I seen this but I recall a method used to reduce weeds  
in a garden is to put a layer of newspaper down.  The roots of the  
weeds cant get through it and over time it will degrade.  So if we  
rake up the woodchips and lay down some newspaper we can put the  
woodchips over top of the newspaper and see if it works.  Cheap, easy  
and hopefully works!

Stephanie Lyons

Quoting Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca>:

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>> Therefore, I recommend:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> Given the bindweed do we ever feel that we are going to
> have woodchips in the garden?
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> - Paul
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