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I’m moving to a house that has weed fabric with landscape rock on top in the yard which i plan to remove when i move in next month, if i want to covert it into a food forest system with some space for annual vegetables, do you recommend i just broadcast cover crop to get it started or sheet mulch with cardboard, compost/manure and wood chips? Id like to do both cover crop and wood chip mulch but i dont know what the best strategy is, or even how to do both at the same time. I’m in zone 6a, front range, colorado

I’ve been trying to read about and understand cover crops recently since they seem good for the soil. But I’m not sure if I grok exactly how to utilize them.

Last year, I rotatilled the garden, planted seeds, and then only weeded out the largest weeds (leaving the grasses and clovers) and ones that grew too close to the littler plants. This seems like the same concept as cover crops, but I’m not sure.

It seemed like the right thing to do, especially since the garden produced well, but what I’ve read makes it seem like it should be more… cultured? Labor-intense?

It also seems like there’s different kinds of cover crops, those that grow alongside the food, and those that are left to cover the field in the off season.

Maybe I’m just getting too many snippets of the whole picture, or I’m overthinking it, but I’d appreciate any insight ya’ll have to offer. Thanks 🙂

hi, this is my first time posting in here so unsure if this is the right place to ask. however, maybe like 3-5 years ago my grass in my garden died off (due to having female dogs and not taking great care of it), we attempted to grow new grass using seeds multiple times but it never worked. now the whole garden is covered in giant dock leaf plants (pretty certain that is what they are). does anyone know why this is? and does anyone know how to get rid of them all, we have tried multiple weed killers, ripping them out the ground, yet nothing has worked and they continue to grow back when spring hits. we plan on getting artificial grass once we figure out how to get rid of the docks so growing the grass back isnt a massive concern. thank you for any replies/advice!