"George.com" wrote in message
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"Billy" wrote in message
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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


http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-No-Dig-Garden

http://www.fbga.net/Lasagna%20gardening%202004.htm

I'd not bother with the plastic and instead cover the area with cardboard
or old felt carpet underlay. Whatever comes free and second hand. A
carpet layer will often have second hand hessian underlay they are happy
to part with for free.

Coffee grounds, food scraps, leaves, grass clippings. Chuck it all on top
of the hessian or cardboard and leave for a few months & you have a
garden.

rob

The video on this page is a laugh. The joker mows his leaves up to make
mulch TWICE. He mows them TWICE. Roftl. Once is more than adequate. Twice
is just wasting time you could be on the couch with newspaper or snoozing.

http://www.wikihow.com/Find-Inexpensive-Mulch

Let me explain a little further.

The joker mows up his leaves. He opens the catcher and explains that the
leaves are somewhat mulched up.

He then explains that he will mow them again.

Eh?

He wants them mulched up finer.

Why?

He spreads them on his drive way and mows them up again.

By that point my leaves are on the garden & I am on the sofa with a nice cup
of tea & the newspaper.

rob