A New Way To Secure Plastic Mulch With Raised Garden Beds
A New Way To Secure Plastic Mulch With Raised Garden Beds Dateline: 27 April 2015 click on pictures to see enlarged views In my previous blog post, titled Step-By-Step Raised Garden Beds , I showed my simple way of making raised garden beds. The technique I use is nothing new, but the blog post shows a systematic approach to the task. The end result (pictured above) renders an orderly, visually pleasing, and practical garden bed. But making the beds is only part of the systematic raised bed approach I'm developing in my garden. There is also the added aspect of plastic mulch for weed suppression. As many readers of this blog know, last year was my first gardening year in which I used black plastic mulch (Click Here and Here for last year's blog posts on the subject). Black plastic is certainly not anything new in the world of gardening, but it was new to me. I've been gardening since I was around 16 years old (I'm 57 now) and I refused to use p...