Hi,
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>I'm a novice who prefers doing almost anything besides pulling weeds and
>grass out of my mulch beds. The weeds aren't so bad since they are sporatic
>and I can easily pull them. At this point I'm more worried about the grass
>that keeps encroaching into the mulch beds.
>
>I've been in this house for about a year. I added about 3 inches of hardwood
>mulch in the spring and plan to do this every year. It looked OK until about
>a month ago. In various places the grass is now getting into it. I don't
>have any sort of border between the mulch and grass. Should I be adding more
>mulch over the course of the year? If I bury the grass with more mulch will
>that kill it? As you know grass is very hard to pull since the roots are so >thick. >
>Walking thourgh my neighborhood I see some houses that look better than mine
>and some worse. Some of the mulch beds have a channel cut on the border,
>about 3 inches wide and 3 inches deep. This seems to stay clean. Any idea on
>how they do that? What are some other ways? Chemicals? Any advice is greatly
>appreciated by myself and my aching back.
>
>Rick
Yeah, I'm in pretty much the same boat. I'm biting the bullet and edging the borders using an edger, and then making a v shaped trench about 3" across. Not sure if I'm going to install an edging material yet. I'm dropping newspaper and then mulch on existing grass.
Swyck