This pile might not look like much, but I have big plans for it.
With the size of our garden, it gets a bit hard to plant out every space and avoid leaving gaps for the weeds to flourish.
I HATE weeding.
I love the end result when it’s done, but it’s not my favourite job at all.
So the more I can stifle the weeds, the better. We don’t use any sprays what so ever so it comes down to competition and natural means of weed control in our garden, and sufficient ground cover seems like a good strategy to leave little room for weeds to make themselves at home.
Ground cover plants are easy to find, but given that we’re trying to make our garden as edible as possible I wanted to plant some kind of cropping plant as ground cover.
I’ve done the herb thing and it wasn’t really a winner for me. We planted various creeping Thymes and Oregano but they tend to get quite scruffy after a while and there’s only so much Thyme you can use in your cooking. They also didn’t crowd out the weeds as well as I hoped. The really determined ones just grew up in between the edibles and it wasn’t easy weeding once that happened.
So most of it came out along the way and the earth was left bare once again.
