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 :).
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
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Always good to see folks doing turf conversions…
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 !
I realized that after the fact. It would have been good for the surrounding trees and a lot easier on my back.
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.
OOOPS, I was referring to different DIY pics, my bad! LOL :0)
I’m glad you got some useful information from the posts.