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Is there any way to get rid of grass quickly without using chemicals? We want to eliminate the grass in an area of our yard. I've been told to put down flattened out cardboard and pile mulch on top of it. A year later, you can move the mulch aside and plant. We want to put some vegetables in this spot, but I'd like to avoid having to wait an entire year. Any ideas?
Thanks!
I do newspaper layers, wet it down and then add garden soil on top. Wait a little bit(maybe a week) for the grass to start dying back otherwise it's a pain to dig thru. Then just cut out holes where you want to plant.
There's no fast gardening tricks that work, Gardener's are patient folks and IF they dont want to dig, then it is a waiting game till the job is done right, the best way to remove the grass is to cut the area into foot by foot squares, slice the spade under each square and remove to grass turf bit by bit, you can store the squares soil side up, then next year the grass will have died off and you just toss this back into your veg beds as the soil will be good, OR as mentioned before, cover the area of grass with either black polythene and let the grass rot away, the same with cardboard etc, but you still have to wait, the old fashioned way is to remove a strip of grass, lay to the side, next strip you dig out the grass and about a spade deep of soil, bury the grass green side down and then move onto the next strip, burying the sod /turf a foot deep as you go, the last strip has no turf, so you add the turf you removed from the first row you dug, this way, you not only get rid of the grass, but you have also prepared the soil for planting you veg,
You dont have to do acres at a time, just do a small area each week till you have all your veg beds finished, that way you dont have too much bare soil for weeds to grow into while you get ALL the grass removed, best doing a smaller area you can cope with than a huge area that you have to continually need to weed because your not ready to plant a larger area. good luck hope you enjoy growing your new veg area as they taste and look better than shop bought ones, happy gardening, WeeNel.
sand works in my yard, there is no grass around the sandbox where the grandkids play. Maybe later you can mix garden soil with it to start your new project. Just a thought and you may want to ask someone who knows what sand might do to future plantings really don't know.
