Delay sowing the seed for 30-45 days.... but sow before the ground freezes......& yes if clippins are thick it could cause heat that will harm seed....thin layers 1/4 to 1/2" will not.....

I would think that one year is too short a time to cause rose replant problems (unless you are a heavy sprayer and have turned your present soil into a lifeless chemical dump). The following link emphasises the importance of having "live" soil. Here is a link that might be useful: link to âRose Replant Diseaseâ article

CI, TZ, SdlM all growing nicely now. I think this will be a good fragrance bed. I put Lion's rose in the back to add beauty and a good leafy background even though it isn't much on scent. I think if the base gets shaded by the others, it won't get disease. There's room to the right of Abe Darby for one more big rose. I think it's going to be Evelyn. Hopefully, it will work some magic for me. This is a good morning sun spot and gets shade in the hottest times of the day. My summer is a little hotter than Hoovb's but maybe it's close enough. I'm going to hope for the best. The only downside to this location is that it will take the full force of the Santa Ana wind from across the street. We are along the Santa Ana river channel and the wind blows strongly through the gap. It seems to be shifting later than Halloween now. I used to call it the Halloween Wind.

I love all those mushroom jokes, esp. the one from witty Ralph Moore. My kid used to devour mushrooms when she was 3, until I was dumb enough to educate her with books on fungi .... she got grossed out and never eat another mushroom. I wasted at least $500 buying mulch, until I found free horse manure. My village grind up trees and leave a HUGE PILE of FREE bark mulch, taller than one-story house. It's within walking distance but I don't like that stuff: 1) it's not finely ground like the $40 per cubic yard that I used to buy. It's coarsely grinded, and pricked my feet when I wear slipper in the summer. My neighbors continue to pay $$$ for better mulch, despite a free pile nearby. 2) I got poison-ivy from using the village's free mulch, had to see the doctor twice for medications. 3) Mushrooms growing on the mulch just like Gean's picture. There are even uglier types like the frothy foamy yellow ones in humid weather. I like horse manure on bedding as mulch, no smell, zero mushrooms, and looks like the expensive mulch I used to get. We grew up in Michigan on 5-acres land and used cow-manure and chicken-manure as mulch .... and grew the sweetest veges.