This is either madness or brilliance

The garden seems to be doing pretty well, other than the ridiculously persistent Bermuda grass that just keeps coming back. I chopped a bunch of it out with a hoe last week:


It was ridiculously hot, hard work (for me, anyway), and a week later, you couldn't even tell that I'd done anything.


I really don't have the time or the inclination to hoe out the garden every few days, but if I don't do something, the grass is going to take over and choke out my vegetables.

I read somewhere online that a good trick for keeping the grass from coming back after the winter is to cover the garden plot with newspaper and wet it down every day until it freezes over. I figured it was worth a try as mulch for the time being, too. I have no idea if there's any chance of it working. I'm either going to save myself a lot of work down the line, or I wasted half a day staking newspapers to the ground with sticks.



Since we're still beta testing, I only did a strip along the front. We'll see how it goes!



cucumber & zucchini, week 2
zucchini, week 3

bell pepper, week 2
row of peppers, week 3

Big Boy tomato plant, week 3
Beefmaster tomato, week 3
row of tomato plants, week 3

baby pepper!