I am surprised by the votes against cloth. I used cloth for the first time this year. Very pleased with keeping weeds down, zero weeding needed.. And had a very good year.
I crested this new garden because we cut down two trees in January and ground the stumps ourselves. We spread the ground wood and dirt mix over the area a couple inches, right on top of thin, weedy existing lawn, (chopped/turned over sod parts). We placed tomatoes, peppers eggplants and sweet potatoes just digging with a trowel and fertilizing with organic dry fert around the plant.I will be saving fall leaves, mowing them, and laying them on soil, using the fabric to keep them in place and help decay.
