A drier climate combined with newly kill-mulched aisles means my buckwheat harvesting methodology needed a little tweak. First, I rolled back the cardboard and wood chips that had run a few inches into the bed to to ensure total weed kill....

...then I used newly yanked buckwheat to weigh the Mulch Burrito down. The result will be a line of composting organic matter along the bed's perimeter, which can be raked back into the center as mulch around new plants.

In fact, I've been doing this with yanked weeds as well, which would have been a lesson in failure in Virginia where it rained so much. But up here in Ohio, a weed with roots exposed dies in a heartbeat, then its body goes back to feed the ground. This last image, taken five days later with a time machine (okay, really it's last week's kale bed) shows the end result.