expanding garden question
 

have about 300 sq ft lawn area i am converting to vegetable garden. have
put down cardboard and newspapers and covered with about 3 inches of
shreaded leaves. anything else i should do before the snow arives?

expanding garden question
 

expanding garden question
 

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have about 300 sq ft lawn area i am converting to vegetable garden. have
put down cardboard and newspapers and covered with about 3 inches of
shreaded leaves. anything else i should do before the snow arives?

No. In late winter add
N: 18.37 lb. chicken manure/ 100 sq.ft. (2.88 oz/sq.ft.)

P: (rock phosphate) 3 lb. / 100/sq.ft. (.48 oz/sq.ft.)

K: Use one gallon of ashes per square yard on loam to clay-loam soil,
and half as much on sandier soils.

Then cover with fresh newsprint or card board, and top with more mulch.

In April, use a dibble to make holes in your garden for planting seed or
seedlings.
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expanding garden question
 

gaffertheShire wrote:

have about 300 sq ft lawn area i am converting to vegetable garden. have
put down cardboard and newspapers and covered with about 3 inches of
shreaded leaves. anything else i should do before the snow arives?

Sounds more like converting to a landfill than a vegetable garden,
come spring just rototill and you're essentially ready to plant. If
the ground is dry enough you can rototill now, then you'd need only a
light rototilling prior to planting in spring. I can tell by your
writing style that you're the lazy type but what you're planning for a
vegetable garden will create a lot more labor, not less.

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On Nov 14, 6:21*pm, wrote:
have about 300 sq ft lawn area i am converting to vegetable garden. *have
put down cardboard and newspapers and covered with about 3 inches of
shreaded leaves. anything else i should do before the snow arives?

A soil test for pH and gross nutrients.

The only thing I'd add to other replies is that i'd have sprayed the grass first with roundup and let it die down before covering it with the cardboard and leaves, then by spring, it would be ready for cultivating as all the perennial weeds and grass would be long gone.
Lannerman.