S Ashby

Thanks for the suggestions. I would LOVE to use pigs but unfortunately we are too close to town to be zoned for that.

I'm actually looking to till first, then sow the clover or whatever to cover the soil and hopefully tamp out some of the grass. But I was thinking something short, so I can leave it in the pathways even when I plant the garden. I'll look into how long it takes the different varieties to flower. That is good advice and I didn't think about that.

Ideally, since we can't use pigs I would like to do a deep mulch but I didn't have the means for that this year.

We just bought new property and I'm trying to get my garden ready for planting. The space we have has been used as pasture for a long time so it is all uneven bunch grass. My plan right now is to do a shallow till to break up the bunch grass.

I was thinking of using seeding clover or some other living mulch after tilling. But is it too late to sew the clover? I'm not sure how long it takes to get established or how established it needs to be before I walk on it to plant my other vegetables.

Anyone have experience doing this? Or should I be trying something else? I'm not very excited about tilling in general but I definitely do not want to just leave the bare soil.