CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
We haven't had the problem of too dry of a summer lately. Since 2008, our summers have been a bit wet. We do mulch the small garden to keep the weeds down. We start with feed sacks, 5" of grass clippings, and then we top up with sawdust and grass clippings through the summer. The grass clippings return nitrogen to the soil, the sawdust depletes nitrogen (which is why it is the top layer). Why sawdust? Because we have a sawmill. We also use sawdust to store the root vegetables in the root cellar. I've used grass clippings since the early '90s. I don't notice that I have more weeds as a result.