bart_2015May 11, 2015

I'm not sure which is the best forum for this query,so I guess
I'll post it on several. I'm in the process of making a very large
garden here in Tuscany, Italy; I've had to start from scratch,but
finally this year I'm mulching it with wood chips.Because I have to
contend with VERY aggressive weeds , lack of summer rain ,and the cost
of the bark chips, I am covering the ground with cardboard and topping
this off with the wood chips. What's more,the entire garden is on a
slope. I began the job last fall, with the idea of conserving the soil
moisture (we had good rain during the past fall and winter; the pattern
here is that once spring/summer hit, the soil begins to dry out so by
summer's end, it's hard as brick...) I would like to use stones for the
main paths in the garden for several reasons: I have plenty of them,they
would look nice to sort of differentiate the paths from the rest of the
garden, and hopefully they would help keep the chips in place and make
them last longer. My question is: can I do this immediately? or should I
wait a year or so to be sure that most of the weeds are killed off? Can
anyone see a down side to this idea of placing the stones on top of the
cardboard-and-wood chip mulch? thanks in advance for your thoughts and
opinions...bart

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