Fall, garden cleanup- crabgrass and other weeds, and cover crop possibilities
It's fall and the off-duty gardens are infested with crabgrass and other weeds gone to seed. Here's the goals..
- Prevent the annual weeds from continuing to dominate (don't just mow and till in)
- Keep the nutrients somewhat in play (don't burn off)
meanwhile
- The chickens need food and bedding/litter
- I need to get to planting fall cleanup mix for garden rotations
- I don't have time for anything elaborate
soo..
- Pretend I'm a farmer stockpiling hay for the winter..
- Capture the nutrients that the weeds have made
- Sickle bar down the plots and let cure
- Rake to some kind of storage/composting area*
- Mark rows
- Scalp swaths with weedwacker
- Make furrows/ loosened soil drills
- Drizzle seed in mixes or in pure rows
- Do only a 5-10x30' area at a time and in different ways for variety spacing trials
