More Front Yard Bed Extension - Island Bed - Priority 3 - March 2025

Two days ago, I posted some photos showing the first step in the 'lazy bed extension' around our island bed in the front yard . This was one of my priority projects for the year - #3. I started with laying down cardboard to smother out the grass along the driveway. That section went about twelve feet by three-feet wide. For step two in this process, I went with filling-in the stretch of grass between the sidewalk back to the (current) island bed. This section is about five-feet deep by twelve feet long. I laid down two layers of cardboard with a slight overlap (both overlapped between the two of them and overlapped with the first layer on the driveway side). I wet it down with the hose. Then, topped with municipal biosolids. And, finally...a layer of other organic yard material (leaves, grass clippings, etc) on top. I mixed those together and used my hose again to wet it all together. Below are a couple of sho...