Front Yard Island Bed - Extension Candidate and Potential Versions for Shaping Edges and Expanding Footprint - January 2026
Last week I posted a list of 'potential' sites to expand (and amend the soil) of various bed sites around the garden. Some of these were/are small extensions (adding inches to the width/depth of the beds) and others are much larger (adding feet of width/depth). I wrote up the list and posted it in January not JUST because of the Wintertime-induced garden-related cabin fever, but also because a key element of my 1 'lazy bed extension' method involves TIME. Time to supress and kill the turf. That's because my 'lazy bed extension' method doesn't require the removal of turf, instead I just smother it with cardboard and then top the cardboard with various materials (biosolids + compost + leaf litter + mulch). On that list were a few front yard locations including expanding the Magnolia bed (which is a tight circle currently), connecting the Oregon Green bed to the front porch bed (about four-feet of distance) and expanding the small (12" deep) bed ...