combined with steam for the emerging weeds, which
ultimately "poke through" the mulch, you have
a very powerful combination.
You get the moisture conserving and weed-controlling
mulch benefits, you provide the food and shelter benefits
for soil biota, you get the fungal foodweb benefits, you get
the humic benefits relative to Ramial Chipped Wood -- the
Bois Raméal Fragmenté, and you get the no-till benefits.
Steve,
Now you've described an awesome weed control method for our road. I just need to put an ad in the paper for 2 1/2 and under diameter birch, cottonwood, choke cherry, and other deciduous tree limbs, a chipper and buy a WV or Swiss flame weeder on our grant and I'll have a great test plot. Thanks, too, from me for the links and to Robin at Laval University for her original post long ago.
Merla
