Removing Grass For Raised Bed Gardens
I was inspired by reading Square Foot Gardening
Needless to say, I kind of let the grass kind of get out of control in the fall and winter. One thing though, our little dog loved to jump into grass. I’ll just say I let it get that long for her 
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Out Of Control Section Of Lawn
Every time I remove turf I keep promising myself I’ll rent a sod cutter, but I never seem to do it. This is the first load of grass going to the dump.
First Load Of Grass Going To The Dump
It took 3 days to remove about 450 square feet of grass with a shovel and 2 trips to the dump.
Day 2 Of Turf Removal
Second Trip To The Dump
With the grass removed I was able to start working on the irrigation to the raised bed gardens.
All The Grass Removed
Other Getting Started With Raised Bed Gardening Posts
- Building the Raised Beds
- Irrigating and Positioning Raised Bed Gardens
- Mixing Raised Bed Garden Soil
- Raised Bed Gardening Ideas
- Removing Grass For Raised Bed Gardening
March 30th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Always good to see folks doing turf conversions…
April 3rd, 2010 at 8:39 pm
much better to simply turn over the grass and let it decompose beneath the garden soil, this would add alot of nitrogen as well …it’s a crying shame that excellent source of organic material was hauled to a dump !
April 5th, 2010 at 8:15 am
I realized that after the fact. It would have been good for the surrounding trees and a lot easier on my back.
June 7th, 2010 at 3:59 am
I built a box as per your pics using rough cut cedar 2X6 8′ long and 4X4 8′long. My dimentions are 8′ by 4′. 3 boards deep, like your picture. My posts are going in the ground about 7″… Thanks for these comments! They’ve helped me alot. I’m going to turn over my grass so I can make use of the nitrogen. I’m going to keep this an organic garden. Starting with the seeds.
June 7th, 2010 at 4:02 am
OOOPS, I was referring to different DIY pics, my bad! LOL :0)
June 7th, 2010 at 6:17 am
I’m glad you got some useful information from the posts.