Q. I am currently designing my landscape / garden area. In reading the MM books (not all the way thru them yet) I have not found an answer I need. When looking at all the pictures in the books, the soil between the beds is bare dirt/soil.
Do I need to strip an entire area bare or can I just kill the grass under the grow boxes? I'd like to make the MM blend in to the landscape plan, which would include grass between the boxes to keep dust down.
A. There's a set of pictures in the Photos section of the MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com website that shows the Rick Dietrich family garden. Those Grow-Boxes are surrounded by grass. So you have at least one example of someone who is happy with that arrangement.
Dr. Mittleider recommends that nothing but dry dirt be in the aisles. He felt that having the grass grow into the Grow-Box was more trouble than it was worth.
He also suggested that grass acted as a haven for bugs, and increased the chance for diseases, since it must be watered, and therefore increases the moisture/humidity in the garden area.
He didn't even like black plastic (looks bad, costs $, deteriorates and makes a mess), chips, mulch, or gravel.
I have always followed his advice, so I have no personal experience with any of those things - except for visiting others' gardens, which confirms - for me - Mittleider's viewpoint.
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