I choose not to because free mulch and also if it stays in place long enough outside of the garden beds it stops a lot of the dirt from blowing around in the dryer weather (when the clay isn't baked, it only took me several years of reiterating why we needed ground cover). Additionally I currently like how it looks on bare ground and will have to wait for the groundcover mix I'm planning to come up to re-evaluate XD
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We put woodchips down last year, mostly for looks, but it does keep the ground moist so we need less water.
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