I Have Rows!

Well, it is now winter time - but it’s been a warm winter so far with just a ton of wind. I felt a little discouraged because I started the cover crop so late. It was only about 6” tall. The cover crop has all died off but that doesn’t mean that there is nothing happening below the surface. I just read this quote by Gabe Brown in his book Dirt to Soil, “Many years, I seed a cover crop following a cash crop only to see it grow perhaps three inches tall before frost kills it. This is not a failure! Even though above-ground growth isn’t much, those little plants have produced plenty of roots underground, and that’s what matters.”

Now, I am trying to make rows for pathways. Here’s the materials I am trying, but this is all an experiment: t-posts for the row markers, wood chips for the pathways, leaf mulch for the rows. I am also trying some organic straw as a mulch cover to see which I like better. I’ll keep you updated!

UPDATE: I will NEVER use straw mulch on my rows again. The amount of seed heads that bloomed into very stubborn grass was insane. I have spent a ton of time pulling all the grass out, time that I needed to spend elsewhere. So, back to the drawing board…