Cardboard over the beds (you can get cartons at the grocery store or even larger ones at a furniture or appliance or bicycle store), and then mulch the whole thing. You want mulch over the weedblock fabric anyway since it breaks down over time in sunlight. A thick layer of shavings from a woodworker or shredded tree trimmings from a tree service or buy an 18 wheeler of mulch and hire a couple of high school students to spread it. If you turn it back to garden in a year, just rake the mulch onto the paths and around the edges and you are ready to go. If you use leaves, you can just turn them in if you decide to garden again. My paths are mulch over cardboard since I don't find landscape fabric as effective. Or alternatively, just mulch the paths and plant a dense cover crop such as buckwheat or rye or alternate them from bed to bed. They will look nice for most of the season and when turned in will enrich the soil. No carpet. The previous occupant of my house did that and we had to spend time removing sodden, mildewy old carpet and hauling to the dump. UGH! Probably the nastiest thing I've done in more than 40 years of gardening.

last week we had a lot of rain, every day. ==>>> IF they are shutting down.. it didnt happen in the last week ... hard to give suggestions.. without a pic ... i recall you made your own drip hose ..... im wondering if its not providing the water.. you think it was??? there is something called summer dormancy due to heavy drought ... but they reflush once out of the drought ... imo ... it might not be great to reflush .. using stored energy.. in early fall ... if it is some form of drought.. make sure they are well watered.. deep into fall .. nothing is worse.. than a plant going thru winter.. already water starved ... obviously you dont need a lot of water in fall.. with cool days .. and cold nights ... but some time in nov.. just check to make sure the soil is not bone dry ... thru the root zone ... ken

We are building right now as well. We found out that the company that we are getting all of our plumbing fixtures is closed, but we were lucky that they were able to ship us the rough-ins. I am emailing the tile person my Pinterest boards, and she is going to pull samples, and I can meet her by appointment. As of now, our kitchen cabinet manufacturer in Canada is still open. Our windows are supposed to go on Monday, but now it's going to rain again for four days, so we are praying they can get them in next week. You are so lucky to be so far along. I would look for other cabinet makers on your own and get bids.

Fogged up glasses = escaping breath. I use first aid tape to get the top of my mask closed all the way across. Of course this means it hurts when I eventually remove the mask after I get home because of the tape pulling at the delicate skin below my eyes. Meanwhile when I go out on top of the usual wearing of masks below the nose inside crowded stores, teams of completely uncovered workers on construction sites, uncovered outdoor dining creating curbside gauntlets and the pulling of masks completely down in order to use phones - whenever and wherever the phone user happens to be at the time - I see a lot of people with masks that fit so that their noses look like they are sitting in a row boat. As in open on top and with large gaps on each side of the nose, with only the tip of the nose covered. And often just barely at that. Apparently the point of view such behavior demonstrates is not in fact a latter day development, a condemnation of how things have become because I read in the spring about how there was the same problem in 1918. That is that Americans were actually told to distance and cover back then as well and because - same as now - there was a significant component that didn't cooperate a deadly pandemic developed. With one specific large outdoor political rally in particular that was held right after the looming problem had become recognized being considered a major contributor to the initial establishment and spread of the virus. Individuals taking seemingly careful precautions and becoming infected anyway shouldn't be a source of mystification when it is thought about the totality of what is involved with exposure. Because the death dust is out there being blown around to settle on every body and every thing that is within reach of each cloud of exhalation. So that a friend with medical training was taking a shower every day after coming home from work, early in the unfolding of the pandemic. And we have probably all seen the comical pictures of random people in China walking around in protective suits with jugs etc. covering their entire heads - a hysterical response, except was it really? For my part I managed to be moving around inside a crowded Cost Co during peak afternoon hours yesterday and then fall asleep on the living room couch afterward without bathing. Except for washing my face when I got home. While I was at the warehouse store standing in front of a display reading some product labeling an arm came around from behind me and grabbed a container of the goods and disappeared. I did not look to see how much face covering was employed as they walked away. For one thing I did not want to turn and present my face to the air where they had just been. But when they came up to me at the display they were right there, like maybe a foot away. In other news a research entity was granted a million dollars this past week to find out just how long the COVID virus remains viable on surfaces. And the body of a COVID victim that was for some reason kept around for a month was discovered to have still infectious particles in the lungs.