Here is an update on this new garden method. My first attempt, but so far so good. For seeds I found it best to simply take a little wooden dowel and punch a little hole. For the transplants I've been using a bulb planter to pull our a plug of soil. Obviously, still too early to tell how it's going to do at keeping out weeds, hold moisture, etc. I terminated the wheat about 3 weeks prior to planting. After it had a chance to die down some I used a push mower to lay it down. My neighbors must have thought I was loopy pushing a mower that wasn't running over dried wheat.