Planning the garden

The garden is my big Homesteading project for this year.

But, if there’s one thing I hated about gardening as a child, it was digging. Digging, double digging, cutting out the border every year. Ugggh! Anyone who’s done it knows that digging up grass is almost impossible with just a shovel. You can do it, it’s just a ridiculous amount of work for very little gain.

Sadly, the places I want to put my garden beds are fully covered with well-established grass.

And there is no way that I’m digging all that up. No way, no how.

Laziness to the rescue once again! I’m going to make raised beds instead. I will cover the grass with a couple layers of cardboard or weed-cloth to smother it, and then fill my bed-frames with a mix of compost and coconut coir. Did you know you can buy compost from the County for $60 a ton? A ton is A LOT of compost.

The coconut coir will help the compost retain water, and the combination should make a very rich soil. Like Lasagna Gardening, but without the ridiculous amount of work. And, best of all, NO DIGGING.

Looking at the Lasagna Gardening (sheet mulching) concept, compost & coconut coir should work just as well. After all, sheet mulching is really just composting right in the garden.

I’ll let you know how it goes.