Full sun ground cover you can walk on/ or advice on getting native wildflowers started
I’ve got a full sun area that I need to keep at minimum a wide path available by for humans/dogs/wheelbarrows/bins.
Past few years it’s been deep hardwood mulch that just this year has Kentucky bluegrass spreading quickly. I’m cutting short, cardboard, deep mulch with barkchips. There is the start of good soil under the barkchips.
I would love to just barkchip a path and do native wildflowers in the rest- but historically when I’ve tried soil/compost mix instead of barkchips I just get a weed bed.
a) what am I doing wrong with starting wildflowers. I do not have the resources (unfortunately)to grow the starts indoors first. Or excessive is this a weed or flower start separating time. If I try wildflowers again I was thinking barkchip mulch now, then add a layer of compost ontop w/ native wildflower mix in the fall.
Yes I will buy actual native wildflowers and check what the mix is made of.
B) if wildflowers is a lost cause what ground covered do you recommend that are low maintenance/spread easy/dogs and little humans can run over. Currently thinking beach strawberry.