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My garden is very small, so there is no grass except on the path next to the beds, which gets clipped whenever the grass finishes seeding (birds come and eat the seeds, so I leave them). I don't have much bare earth except underneath the areca palm and the jasmine, which is slowly being colonised by the gotu-kola, which is an excellent ground cover, and also makes a good salad chopped up very small and tossed quickly over a low flame with chopped shallot, chickpea powder, cashew nuts, a drop of soya sauce and some chopped red chillis if you like things hot. Where there is earth visible I sweep fallen leaves to cover it, to be humus in due time.