Quote Originally Posted by TAH View Post
Mulch helps control weeds a whole lot. We started heavily mulching our garden with clean straw this year and didn't pull a single weed from July til now.
My long term plan is to use raised beds in my garden, which is in itself a giant raised bed, and put down weed fabric and then crushed red stone in between the raised beds, but a lack of time and money has so far prevented this.

One nice thing about the town I live in, after leaves are collected, they are mulched at a composting facility, then some of this is trucked back to behind the police station, and any resident can go and grab as much as they want of nice rich leaf compost/mulch.

~Moose