Smothering Grass With Cardboard To Rebuild Foundation Bed - April 2024
Last Fall, when I was digging up/out the (extended) IB2DWs bed for the small conifer garden along the property line, I turned to a mix of grass-removal techniques. The whole area was turf, so I did three things: Dug it out, smothered it/covered it up and flipped it over (and smothered it). For the material that I excavated, I brought most of it over to the southside of the house and used it to fill in the little gully/swale on the side of the house. And, I tucked in a bunch of it (flipped over) along the side of the porch where I'd seen some erosion over the years. On this side of the house, we have just ONE downspout that handles a big portion of the roof and when it gets clogged up, that gutter 'tops'. That's one source of the erosion. The other is the downspout outlet. Whatever *does* get down the downspout, comes out one of those surface drains. That 'flipped' turf was a way to raise the ground-level here. And, like a bunch of the areas that I w