Easy recipes for creating a new garden bed WITHOUT DIGGING 🪴 Lawn Removal Part 1

Learn easy recipes for creating a new garden bed without digging, tilling, spraying, or using any large equipment. These are great strategies for smothering weeds and lawns to create either a mulched area or a new garden bed.
You can adapt these methods for large areas or small areas, to add a little or a lot nutrients to the soil, or to mostly just prevent weeds. You can even use them to repair existing garden beds that have been taken over by weeds. Also, these methods all create an opportunity to turn organic waste materials into healthy soil, all onsite, and pretty easily.
I’ll share information and considerations along the way so you can decide what is best for you and your yard. Because I think that’s the biggest problem: not every gardening method applies in every context. I’m here to share resources, but it’s ultimately up to you to decide what is best for you and your yard.
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[@gardenprojectacademy]

I HAVE EXCITING NEWS! 🪴Design-Your-Own Landscape Layout ONLINE COURSE 🪴is now OPEN for enrollment! For do-it-yourselfers who want to create their own landscape design, but just need a little extra guidance. I’ll walk you through the design process, step by step, so you can create a practical, hand-drawn "layout plan" (a landscape design plan that shows the layout of the finished design). Learn more and sign up, here! www.gardenprojectacademy.com/diy-landscape-design-online-course/

[@philisbramlett6890]

🏡. Hello Eve , You are just who I needed to find ❤. I am so convinced of this method . Unfortunately I allowed myself to be talked out of it and now I mow around all my new shrubs and perennials which has been difficult . I am much older, weak. I have a few basic hand tools and disability with waking . I will find a way . My $ is nil and no car. I did my best to educate myself about alkaline soil . Diverting water away from my tiny home . I'm so glad to meet you ❤

[@linguaphile42]

This is EXACTLY the video I needed right now! Looking to get rid of at least some of the lawn, and have tons of leaves to use in the mix. Can't wait for your next installment :-).

[@gardenprojectacademy]

So glad I can help! Part 2 is here now, too: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mImUpmx_ra5oe5I

[@markking2310]

I use 2 layers of burlap instead of cardboard with mulch on top. Comes on a giant roll in hundreds of feet and simple to store away.

[@Kathywake23]

Where do you buy this?

[@markking2310]

@@Kathywake23 Amazon of course : D

[@philisbramlett6890]

May I ask the price of the burlap you purchased on line from Amazon ? Does anyone know if brown packaging paper rolls has the same effect as cardboard ? I was just so curious about the price of it or recycled ? S&H may be an issue ? Thank you to anyone for responding to me . $$ is such an issue at times ❤

[@markking2310]

@@philisbramlett6890 Was $149 for 300ft. Bought it a few years ago. Just checked and it's $244.

[@lexie-d7190]

You are super awesome! 🙏 thank you.

[@kimberlyrogers9953]

Yaaaay ! I’ve got a front yard AND a back yard and a dim vision…Eve, thank you so much.. I’m really excited…

[@Carl-iw9sy]

Thank you for this video. A week ago I've placed 15 yards of mulch over cardboard to create new beds and borders for the spring, now I will be poking some holes through the cardboard using a pitchfork to allow the water get to the soil bellow and hopefully speed up the decomposition.

[@HeyTezza]

Oh you’re awesome, thank you so much for making it easy to find the whole series!

[@LINativePlantConservation]

so, this lady said she wanted to get some strawberry plants for her kids to pick, and i started talking to her about it, and i went on and on, and as soon as her husband came to talk to her, she disappeared. I think i scared her off with my excitement that someone actually was talking about plants. There arent enough people talking about plants, or excited about plants, gardening, landscape, outdoors, birding, native bees and plants in general. I think i need to start a youtube channel so i can talk to people who actually care and are not scared off by my excitement lol

[@lauriebissell7023]

I am learning so much before I start using cardboard, mulch, compost, etc. So much to know and which method to use with garden vs. weed kill, etc. Thank you for your knowledge. I am learning a lot.

[@sweetd00026]

Hello! Thanks for all these videos, I have learned so much already! I notice you say it’s a good idea to kill the lawn in fall and plant in spring. However, I happen to have a ton of arborist chips right now (mid April). Can I kill my lawn now (in April) and plant either in fall or next spring? (Fyi I live in Eugene, Oregon where fall planting is an option…I think). Thanks again!

[@melissamybubbles6139]

Okay. I am in a dry climate, so cardboard would probably take years to break down. I think if I ever did this, I'd rather use potting soil with tons of mulch on top. However, that will probably never happen. Dad loves his lawn.

[@alohadayto]

You explain it very well!

[@christinefox5506]

Are there tools to "scrape off" unwanted grass/weeds instead of smothering, which seems to take long

[@gene3388]

I tried a method similar to recipe #3, using card board (lightly perforated) + mulch method about a year ago in San Francisco Bay Area. When I uncovered the mulch after 6 months, I noticed a lot of black and green mold growing on the partially decomposed cardboard (about 1/3 decomposed). Figuring it could take perhaps another year for the cardboard to fully decompose, I decided to rip the cardboard out and carefully disposed it, mixed up the dirt and waited 3 more months before planting new plants. Ms Video-Author, have you experienced similar result before? Were I doing the right thing by disposing all? Or did I do something wrong in the process? Thanks.

[@hellie_el]

thanks for another excellent video! i have a question, can you please tell me if i can use 100% cotton fabric instead of the cardboard?

[@gardenprojectacademy]

Ooo, not sure, to be honest! Sounds good in theory, 100% cotton fabric should decompose well. Of course, probably not around plants, similar to cardboard, as it may repel water and decrease the soil's ability to breathe. You may want to test it out in a section and see how it goes? Perhaps even compare multiple methods to see what performs best in your yard?

[@hellie_el]

@@gardenprojectacademy thank you!

[@sterlgirlceline]

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[@LINativePlantConservation]

ground dwelling bees cant get through a lot of mulch

[@shirleylangton7967]

I love your channel, Eve. You give a lot of information, no fillers, in a straight forward way!