Surely I’m not the only one who gets behind with weeds and grass in the garden. This is One of the most frustrating things for me; weeds. It happens every year. We have a wet spell or a really busy season and suddenly the grass and weeds have taken over.
Until recently, my blackberries and raspberries weren’t even visible which is really hard on them. They don’t particularly like to compete with grass and weeds.
Rather than trying to pull all that grass I decided to take a different approach. I’ve been chopping it off as short as I can and then heavily mulching with old hay. My hope is that my getting enough much on top I can smother out the grass and weeds while helping keep moisture available for my berries.
The blackberries seem to be doing better since I mulched around them. There’s only one problem, when the goats got out the other day they were able to find the vines easily since they weren’t hidden by grass and weeds anymore. I guess I win some and I lose some. Hopefully the vines won’t suffer too much from the goats’ browsing!
Blessings,
Jennifer