wim

Mike,

I grow my vegetables organic. For them I use mowed grass, it keeps weeds away, protects the soil from the sun, the rain and it composes and gives nutrients to my plants.

Normally I don't have enough grass to cover everything. A few years ago I had to stop halfway when mulching my celery plants. A few days later it rained very heavy and the unprotected soil compacted, after that we had a warm sunny period. The unprotected soil dried out. When I checked, the mulched soil wasn't compacted nor dry and the plants grew considerably better.
It convinced me to continue with mulching.

Just be selective what vegetables to mulch, if you mulch chervil or parsley with grass, the grass clings to the leaves and at the end I ended up eating more grass then vegetable.

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With kind regards
Wim