Hi all,
Permaculture newbie here that's trying his hand at creating a small food forest while "stuck" in confinement.
We cleared a small space around some wild apple trees we have on our land, fenced it in and mildly tilled the soil and cut grass/weeds to start with. We've now done the following:
1. Laid down wet cardboard for the various reasons that people do sheet mulching
2. Put a thick layer of good top soil we got from the side of the road in the forest where we live (most definitely full of weed/grass seeds)
3. A layer of dried leaves
4. A final layer of cut grass from the property (again probably full of seeds).
We did not have access to manure or other organic material to use as mulch.
We plan on planting in the next few days - for the bigger plants we will be cutting holes through the cardboard, however I'm still not quite sure how to go about planting things like clover for groundcover (will it be able to make it through the layer of leaves + cut grass ?).
Given the material we had available, should we have layered things differently ?
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Farmer Ben
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