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Re: Advice on setting up first square foot garden

Bill,
   I do not use anything on my perennials, too expensive and too difficult
to apply.  One garden is 150' x 100'.  Another is 50' x 75' and the other
is 40' x 60'.  I just plant them in rows.  I love them and I seem to be
obsessed with collecting them in the same way that others collect Barbie
dolls or baseball cards.
   Do I just cut them down and haul them to the vegetable area and lay them
down to whatever thickness I like?
   My grass is cut very cheaply.  He does about 2 acres of it.  It takes
about 6 hours for him to do it.  I know he would not be willing to bag
the clippings.  I have tried raking it up for my own use but that is *very*
difficult.  Most people I know do not bag their clippings.  The county
discourages this.  The ones that do are usually by services and I am guessing
that their grass is also treated chemically.  In fact, most people I know
treat their grasses.
   Next year, I hope to have a source for oat straw.  I think I can have
this delivered by a farmer for $2. a bale.  I am not sure yet because he
was supposed to have brought me some last weekend and he did not and now
I can't seem to reach him.  If it does work out, I was hoping to try using
it as a mulch for my perennials.  I read Ruth Stout's book many years ago.
One of these days, I will try to re-read it.  But what I remember is that
you just pile it on and thats all you ever need to do for soil conditioning.
I can't remember if this was for vegetables though.  I also compost my
vegetable garbage.  This does not go very far though.  Well, I think
everyone probably now knows more that they ever wanted about my gardening
trials so I will stop.  Thanks again for your advice.
                                     JoAnne Davis
                                     Tully, N.Y.
                                     Onondaga County Zone 5

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