I did not realize it until just now but the preponderance of gardening evidence is pointing to one slumbering conclusion, I have not defeated the weeds in my garden. I have most likely made them stronger. Or more proliferate in another measure. Once again the green fuzz is out there growing. I have a library of mental videos of all the things I have tried to slow them. Flamethrower? Check. Poisoned paintbrush? Check. Well this year has gotta be different. Plus every idea I have always works but I do admit it is a question of degree. Especially later in the season when the heat and humidity have long sunk in and the malevolent momentum of organic pestilence has entertwined its roots into and about my vegetables. So my neighbor put out this cloth in his rows some 2 years or so ago. He never took it up. Its heavier than a cloth though. It kinda looks like a conveyor belt material. B worries about water infiltration. I worry about the mess it must make to ever take it up and find all those soil pins used to hold it down before they wrap themselves permanently around my tiller tines or poke through my stylish rubber gardening clogs. Any thought on weed control in this manner before I probably go off and try it anyway? I am a sucker for a learning experience. I have heard that one may make it all day without kisses but never without a good rationalization. Thanks in advance.
