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| | The Complete Guide to Country Living |
 | | Inventory trees, shrubs, grasses, flowers and weeds; they indicate soil and climate conditions and are your inventory of timber, firewood, natural pastures. |
 | | Heavy mulch suppresses weeds and feeds the soil but keeps soil cool, ideal for potatoes but imperfect for tomatoes and potentially disastrous for many plants during prolonged cold, wet springs. |
 | | Collect all of the weed- and chemical-free organic materials you can get at reasonable cost: sawdust, wood chips, straw (hay nearly always has a lot of weed seeds, especially the first cutting), leaves, grass clippings, stable cleanings, manure. |
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