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Originally Posted by Janet
Use cardboard (flattened large boxes) to cover the soil completely,
held down ideally with vegetable matter but otherwise planks. Cut x's in
the cardboard in spring to plant potatoes, or young courgette plants,
beans etc. Or fruit trees and bushes, and garden plants Keep up the
mulching.
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Janet's is a good approach.
Since you already have your own compost, you can lay potatoes or jerusalem artichokes on top of the soil, and cover them with a thick layer of compost (at least 6inches thick). Their roots will help break up the turf layer, and the grass and weeds, once buried sufficiently, will rot down. Basically what you're doing in this approach is to use a raised bed system, using your added compost as the main growth medium, but with gradually increasing depth as what you do on top helps to break down what's underneath.
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