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Have about 500 sq ft that I want to make into garden for next year....this
area is grass now. what is best way to get this area ready for next year? I
just today found a source for coffee grounds today, and was thinking to
spread coffee grounds over grass and then cover with plastic....then till
next spring.....I don't know if this is best plan....any advise
appreciated.....

Cheap Dave,
lazy Billy here to recommend that you look at the web sites below.
http://ourgardengang.tripod.com/lasagna_gardening.htm
http://organicgardening.about.com/od...n/a/lasagnagar
den.htm
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organ.../Lasagna-Garde
ning.aspx

Lasagna gardening is no dig gardening, although if you could double dig
it the first year, and that would be the end of the digging.
http://www.wikihow.com/Double-Dig-a-Garden
http://www.organicgardening.com/feat...19-934,00.html
http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com/double-digging.html

Either way be sure to add your amendments to the organic material,
manure, phosphate, and potassium, when you prep the garden area this
Fall.

Plastic (clear) is good, if your trying to kill off weeds with solar
heat (solarization), but it will keep the moisture out as well (not a
good idea to my mind). Lasagna gardening will pretty much bury the
problem of weeds.

Oh, yeah, coffee grounds can be used on blueberry plants and potatoes
with no harm, but compost them first before you used them on any other
plant.
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