How to Prepare a Garden for Spring

Prepare your spring garden in the fall - inexpensively!!!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. In the fall, select an area for your spring garden.

2. Mow the patch of lawn to make room for your future garden.

3. Cover the newly mown garden patch with four layers of newspaper, then a four-inch layer of shredded leaves or bark mulch.

4. Hose it down so it is very wet.

5. Come spring, the compost blanket will have smothered the grass roots, and the bed will be primed for planting. The newspapers will have become mulch.

[gartengrl]

on 3/18/2009 This is a good idea. I also like to line my beds with rocks and after I clean them out in the spring I add soil mixed with dehydrated cow manure so my plants have something nutritious to eat!