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Prepare Beds NOW for Fall Planting
@powers_plants
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The video provides a practical, step-by-step guide to a common gardening task, offering a clear solution for creating new garden beds. The use of readily available materials like cardboard and mulch, along with a specific timeline, makes the advice actionable and appealing to a broad audience interested in gardening.
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This video demonstrates how to prepare a new perennial bed by smothering existing lawn grass. The method involves cutting the grass short, leaving clippings, and covering the area with cardboard and mulch, or just a thick layer of mulch. This process aims to kill the grass and enrich the soil for fall planting.
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The best way to smother the lawn and create a new bed is by cutting the existing lawn as short as possible, leave the grass clippings in place, and cover the area with either 5 inches deep of mulch, or wood chips, or put cardboard down and then 3 inches of mulch on top. Keep the area watered once a week if you don’t get rain that will help the cardboard breakdown and then you can plant right through the cardboard into the ground in about 6 to 8 weeks. I’m a Garden Coach in the Chicagoland area and I love this community — if you know the answer to someone’s question in the comments, please jump in and help! I can’t always respond personally, but together we can figure anything out. 🌱 Visit powersplants.com to learn more about booking a coaching session with me, and for just $5/month you can subscribe for exclusive behind-the-scenes content, videos, and live Q&As where you can ask me anything directly! #Garden #Gardening #GardeningTips
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