Bye Bye Turf

Next years garden project - to create a large bed the length of the back yard. I've gone back and forth with this and I've slowly (snail speed) gotten rid of some grass in the area but, would start working on a different part of the garden because, I HATE the labor associated with digging up the grass! I hate grass!

Last weekend, I spent most of my time laying down corrugated cardboard on the area in order to slowly suffocate the grass and hopefully have the cardboard breakdown during the winter months.  It's not a pretty sight, but I've seen this done on a couple of blogs and have decided to try it myself...like I said, I HATE digging up the grass!

Hopefully the neighbors don't notice all the cardboard from afar, especially with the leaves layered on top, hence why I picked the fall season to do this (curb appeal has gone out the window with this method). They probably think I've gone bonkers with cardboard. I still have some more cardboard to lay down this weekend in order to finish off the bed but, I would rather do THIS than dig up the grass and break my back. I will live with the unsightly view outside the kitchen window for now...plus with the snow coming sooner or later, it will all disappear very soon.

Grass, grass go away don't come back another day (sing to the melody of Rain, Rain go away).