Cardboard and marsh hay are my best weapons against weeds & early blight. :)
It’s so good to see you again, D! How’s it going?
We had some contractor’s black plastic sheeting left over from the garage construction, so I spread that over the ground and *nothing* is growing beneath it. Landscaping fabric didn’t work as well, but large pieces of cardboard seemed to do the trick. Now, I’m weeding by hand and placing the cardboard under the landscaping fabric. We have cute little baby cantaloupes and watermelons, and I’ve put cardboard under them, too. In the desert, I think I parked the melons on top of straw, but that was a long, long time ago. I spotted a bunny hot-footing it out of the backyard this A.M., but there are two new fox-mothers in the neighborhood, so who knows which way the situation will go?