I just found you and realize this is one of your first posts, but just wanna say that this is pretty inspiring.
I recently bought a used raised bed made of cedar, set it down with some cardboard underneath for awhile to kill the grass and weeds, then filled the bed with a bunch of soil and peat moss and a couple of young tomato plants and spinach seeds. Hopefully it turns into something good.
I may take your advice of placing cardboard down with mulch on top to scope out additional locations for raised beds and flower beds.
I'm glad we found each other! Woah that's a really great compliment, that it all I want from any of the stuff I do, is for people to be inspired to take it up for themselves.
So far it's worked great, one thing that also helps if you have a bunch of grass or other plants that you don't want in an area is to hit them with some boiling water, then add your cardboard. It will kill the plants without herbicide but also make sure that they don't grow through the decomposed cardboard. The areas that I sheet mulched are way more productive than the ones I didn't.
Hope it works out and you get to grow a bunch of stuff!
Thanks for the tip on the boiling water! I may do that since weeds started growing again around the raised bed, esp since the temps dropped below 100 recently after the 2-month drought lmao (I'm also in DFW area).
What kind of mulch do you normally use? I've been using crushed up dry leaves from the previous fall, but curious if there's something better.
I just found you and realize this is one of your first posts, but just wanna say that this is pretty inspiring.
I recently bought a used raised bed made of cedar, set it down with some cardboard underneath for awhile to kill the grass and weeds, then filled the bed with a bunch of soil and peat moss and a couple of young tomato plants and spinach seeds. Hopefully it turns into something good.
I may take your advice of placing cardboard down with mulch on top to scope out additional locations for raised beds and flower beds.
I'm glad we found each other! Woah that's a really great compliment, that it all I want from any of the stuff I do, is for people to be inspired to take it up for themselves.
So far it's worked great, one thing that also helps if you have a bunch of grass or other plants that you don't want in an area is to hit them with some boiling water, then add your cardboard. It will kill the plants without herbicide but also make sure that they don't grow through the decomposed cardboard. The areas that I sheet mulched are way more productive than the ones I didn't.
Hope it works out and you get to grow a bunch of stuff!
Thanks for the tip on the boiling water! I may do that since weeds started growing again around the raised bed, esp since the temps dropped below 100 recently after the 2-month drought lmao (I'm also in DFW area).
What kind of mulch do you normally use? I've been using crushed up dry leaves from the previous fall, but curious if there's something better.