posted 10 years ago
Chris,
Thank you for your response. So, to prevent the selection of fire-resistant grasses that regenerate from the roots, I would need to do this multiple times?
Bryant,
Thank you for your response. My front yard is on a south sloping hillside, with two hugel beds on-contour. I planted these last year with annual vegetables, I'm transitioning to more perennial species in the Hugel beds. I don't want to plan a section or monoculture of garden, not even rows, I want the veggies to grow with the others. If only clover comes up, fine. If everything else comes up too, great. The first section of seeds on my list is a "beneficial bug blend" from Peaceful Valley. I will not separate the clover seeds from the rest of them because that seems a little too labor intensive, and the seed mix is made to grow all together. I may put veggies in one place or another, but right now I'm inclined to mix them in with the blend, and seed it as a polyculture. willy nilly is not a problem. Chop and drop will definitely be part of it, I just don't even own a lawnmower so I will be chopping by hand, ie two or three times per year. With the south sloping hillside, and different growth habits and leaf shapes, I'm not concerned about sunlight in the slightest. If every tomato gets shaded out by California Buckwheat, so be it, but I don't think this is likely. Strong soil from chop and drop and from nitrogen fixers will help keep the molds and mildews at bay. The mice that live in my hugel beds, though, need some snakes to control them. Mice took almost all my tomatoes last year, time for some snakes and owls to take some more mice. I don't need the soil to be more loose, this is excessively well-drained sand. I need to build more organic matter in topsoil to hang on to nutrients and store water. My question is really about the methods of destroying my lawn. How do I destroy a lawn!?