We're redoing our paths at the Master Peace Community Garden, and I wanted to ask what people have had success with.
Last year, our first year, we made woodchip paths, both wide "main" paths for wheelbarrows, and woodchip "secondary" paths to divide the plots. We had a hard time fighting bermuda grass, and the problem is that it just grows through the woodchips and when you weed them half of the woodchips ends up underground. We wasted a lot of expensive woodchips this way last year. We have rebuilt out "main" paths using landscaping fabric with woodchips on them, and then lined with brick. But we're scratching our heads about the "secondary" paths that serve as borders between the paths. Our best idea is to use 10x2 lumber, laid right on the ground. We have a local store that sells reclaimed wood from deconstructed buildings, and its great hard wood, not treated. It would presumably last for a long time (5 years?). It gives us the weed protection, and the semi-permanence (we can move it around if we want, but it isn't going anywhere). Its also fairly cheap. Does anyone else have any better ideas? Has anything worked, or not worked, in hotter areas that have horrible weed problems? Thanks a lot, Vinnie Bevivino Community Garden Educator The Engaged University Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program University of Maryland The Center for Educational Partnership 6200 Sheridan Street Riverdale, MD 20737 301-405-0656 engagedu.umd.edu _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
