Creating a Garden Bed in Your Lawn: Step-by-Step

Lay out a hose on the lawn, adjusting to the desired bed outline.
Using a sharp, square-bladed spade, cut through sod just to soil surface following the hose. Work spade under sod and lift off shovelful by shovelful. To ease removal, kill grass first by smothering with black plastic, newspaper, or cardboard (anchor with bark chips, bricks, rocks). If covered in midsummer, grass dead by fall; remove then (mild winters) or following spring (cold winters).
Once grass removed, cultivate area, work in amendments, then plant as desired.

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