Garden re-imagined....

[lolotsung]

potato gnocchi

[Killerbunny]

Love that! Good made with sweet potato too.

[Ontario Chick]

Sorry potatoes are in the compost pile, replaced by my attempt at permaculture.
Wish I knew what variety the raspberries are but they were a gift and of unknown origin.

Another problem is that there are lots of wild raspberries around, both red and black, and I suspect they will cross-pollinate and instead of amazing large red, they will produce Medium striped. :)

So this is my attempt at gardening in my dotage, see if it works.

[lolotsung]

wow that looks great! my attempts at gardening have never been more than about 8'x8'. Turning the soil and weeding are a back breaker...

[labradors]

Try no-till, cover with mulch in summer and a tarp in the winter/spring, and weeding is a breeze :).

Linda

[Jaye]

Try no-till, cover with mulch in summer and a tarp in the winter/spring, and weeding is a breeze :).

Linda

I added layer of compost to the beds and covered with mulch last fall. I plan to add more mulch after I have planted everything out. It's easy to move the overwintered mulch aside to plant, then put it back around the plants, plus I don't have to remove all the early starter weeds before I plant either, except for underneath where the birdfeeder was hanging this winter.

[Happy]

What do you ladies use for mulch?

[Ontario Chick]

I use straw and compost it at the end of the season.
For the raspberries I think I will try wood chips, had our big oak trimmed in the winter so have some lovely chips from that.

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[Happy]

The last time I used straw I had weeds literally growing out of the straw piles-fairly certain the weed seeds were IN the straw. I swore off it after that. What did I do wrong?

[Killerbunny]

I had the same when somebody used hay but straw was OK.