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Starting a garden on grass, without digging up the grass.
This method of starting a garden on sod is perfect, as each step builds on the last, so that ultimately, there is hardly a lick of back-breaking work of soil prep involved. This no-dig method of gardening makes it possible for anyone to grow a garden, and give what they grow. This is all you need to remember to prep your soil: Newspapers kill the grass. Soil holds the newspaper down so that newspapers don’t blow away. The newspapers decompose into the soil, while the plants digging down deeper beneath the newspapers. At the end of the growing season, you’ll have a rich bed of composted soil to start your…


