Yesterday, I spent a little time weeding the actual rows in my garden – after the rain those pesky weeds popped up, but it wasn’t a long and laborious task. The weed barrier fabric that I have in the garden provided a fairly dry place to work even though the soil was wet, and there weren’t weeds in the aisles to deal with. I tossed the weeds that I pulled into the middle of the aisle, and then took my broom and swept them up!
I harvested some onions and radishes, planted some more string beans, and Heidi and I planted some sun flower plants that we had started from seed this spring. They are already a few feet high and we look forward to the classic look of the sunflowers later this summer as well as a food source for all of the birds we have here at the nursery.
The first year (last year) of putting the landscape fabric down was a little work (and expense) to do, but it will last for us for several years and it makes the maintenance of the garden so much easier, from input to weed control and actual harvesting. As my cucumbers vine out, they stay on top of the fabric and you never have a cucumber that’s been laying in the dirt. I have it laid out in such a way that will make it easy to rotate my location for tomatos and peppers as well. If anyone wants to see how we actually have this laid out is welcome to stop by the nursery here and take a look.
