Written by joe foster.
Removing grass for garden bed.
Raised beds are the ultimate in no till gardening.
Cut the sod into sections to make removal easier.
I have personally tried 5 different ways to get rid of grass.
However most grasses are perennial plants that can regrow if even a small bit of root remains.
There are many different methods you can find online to guide you from renting a sod cutter to placing cardboard over the grass in the fall so that the grass is all dead decomposed.
You can add organic matter by forking or shoveling compost manure grass clippings or leaf mold onto the sod before tilling.
Removing grass by hand.
5 ways to remove grass for a garden or flower bed.
Slice under the sod with a spade to free the sod from the soil.
So complete removal involves carefully loosening the soil and tugging out as much of the roots as possible.
After tilling the bed remove and shake the soil from any remaining clumps of grass.
Cut the existing sod from the garden bed with a spade.
One advantage of tilling is that the original organic matter is retained in the garden as the sod is turned under.
In this guide i will show several common methods with pictures that i have used over the years and found to be the most effective.
Removing the sod by hand and the back and the legs.
Small grass infestations in a garden can be addressed by hand removal.
Lawns have many good properties but it can be some of those very same properties that make it hard to get rid of when you want put in a garden bed.
Because you are literally constructing a bed from the ground up there s no need to dig into the soil to remove lawn and weeds.
One of the first steps to making your own vegetable garden or new flower beds is to remove the grass from your yard.
Any method will take time but some will be easier and or longer lasting than others.
A dirty job removing grass.