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Return to square foot gardening; mulch; edging

Hi All,

I am returning to square foot gardening, both the list and the cultural practices,
after something like a year.  I got so darn busy, didn't have time for much e-mail,
and didn't have time to really take care of a garden either. I did put out some
tomato transplants from the store and some bean seeds this spring, but didn't
take the time to enrich the soil or even put on mulch, and guess what?  The
very hot and dry summer burned up my garden.  I got maybe six tomatoes and
one picking of beans.  Over the past few weeks I've dug in composted cow
manure and started planting 3 3-foot-square beds (9 small squares each--I like
the easier reaching in comparison with the 4-square foot beds) plus leaving
one 9-foot square open for ridding it of bermuda grass and enriching it slowly
with dug-in organic scraps.

What do you use for mulch?  I'm trying several-years-old hay, dried grass
clippings, and pine needles.

For edging I use bricks stacked two high.  Looks nice, is movable--but doesn't
help much with the bermuda grass.  Maybe with the bed I'm not using each
season (I plan to always have one empty bed to work on) I'll start digging down
one or two bricks deep, piling them 4 high, and seeing what that will do to the
"devil grass."

--Anne

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