The Red Baron Project year one

[Redbaron]

Originally Posted by zeroma

Thanks Redbaron.

Keep thinking about YOUR book.

In a perfect world, someone who is actually a good writer will join the project and write a book, so I don't have to! But so far not a single post of pictures and results by anyone, so it looks like I am on my own, at least for now. Hopefully that will change if we start getting good results.


PS Update on how the different barrier layers are working. Little early BUT so far the best overall has been burlap, but has the highest cost. Cardboard is next and was free, but seeing some bug issues. Both paper and landscaping felt blew away at least partly in a wind storm. Boy was that a mess to clean up and do over!

But so far, except the cost (10 dollars a roll on sale) Burlap is surprising me. No bug issues, the soil under it turned wonderful black loam from hard red clay in a matter of just a couple weeks or less. Worms everywhere in ground that had nearly none. Very few weeds managed to poke through the fabric, less than I expected. The very few that did poke through seem to have more than anything else locked it into place so the wind cant blow it away. I never used burlap before this trial. Lets see if the trend with it continues.