We need to do a major overhaul of the vegetable garden area. The grass is out of hand. I turn my back for 5 minutes, and it's taken up residence in the beds, drinking mimosas and putting it's feet on the coffee table. I hate it. Screw you, grass.
My plan is this... plant a fall garden in my current, questionable garden. Garden through the winter as-is, probably into spring. Next summer... it's ON. I'm going to lay 2" of cardboard down over the whole damn thing, reinforce the perimeter with Something Awesome that will keep the grass from growing underground & into my sanctuary (suggestions, anyone?). I'm going to enclose the whole thing in a 3' cobb wall, and buy dirt from The Natural Gardener. We'll lay down walkways and it will be AWESOME. Nothing grows in the summer anyway, so it'll be the perfect time.
Any seasoned gardeners want to offer advice or point out the folly of my ways??
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No real advice, other than landscape fabric for the grass issue (you could lay down a perimeter of landscape fabric and cover it with drainage stones, maybe), but I wouldn't listen to me, since my garden has plenty of grass edging it's way back in. But yeah. My garden sucked this year, mostly because I was knocked up with the twinkles and couldn't do much work. And it looks like shit now as we're heading into fall because I haven't maintained it *at all* (thanks to the aforementioned twinkles...). But NEXT year, I will take better control of my garden! And I hear that at some point, I might even be able to force those twinkles into slave labor such that they'll be more help than hindrance... someday...
(oh, and this is Kate, aka Sid, btw...)
HA! Yes, I hear that, eventually, you can force said Twinkles into slave labor & make them earn their keep. If only dogs had that quality...
You know, I tried landscaping fabric on the walkways... and it has grass growing in it. SIGH. This stuff is insidious.
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