Comments on: site preparations for meadow-making, with benjamin vogt https://awaytogarden.com/site-preparations-for-meadow-making-with-benjamin-vogt/ 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener Tue, 06 Aug 2024 16:21:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Amber garrison https://awaytogarden.com/site-preparations-for-meadow-making-with-benjamin-vogt/comment-page-13/#comment-1392025 Tue, 06 Aug 2024 16:21:50 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=54742#comment-1392025 I’m slowly turning my urban acre into a native habitat garden/ food forest here in michigan
I’ve used a few methods, low cut and cardboard smother. Sod cutter plus pre emergent and cover with landscape fabric all summer to sow seeds in fall and plug plants in spring, round up (but I try to avoid it).

]]> By: Kristin Smith https://awaytogarden.com/site-preparations-for-meadow-making-with-benjamin-vogt/comment-page-13/#comment-1391969 Sun, 04 Aug 2024 03:17:36 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=54742#comment-1391969 I have removed a lot of lawn since moving to my house in 2018. Some I dug up, just the four inches or so of sod, and planted into right away. Others I have smothered with cardboard, and that was also great for getting rid of moving boxes. I usually do cardboard layer, compost, twigs and sticks broken into 4-8 inch pieces layer, and more cardboard, and then more compost. This has worked really well for both dealing with “yard waste” and cardboard boxes. I do make sure the cardboard only has black ink (usually soy based these days) and is not glossy.

There is some rhizome spreading grass, maybe quack grass but I’m not great at identifying grass, that is a pain in the butt. So I just dug a trench around the new beds. It helps collect and move water a bit when we have a heavy rainfall on the dense clay soil, and it has made a barrier to the grass spreading. You do have to weed it weekly though.

Wish me luck as I have a code enforcement officer coming Monday because one of my neighbors complained of weeds on my property. It’s ridiculous as everything I planted is blooming now, like coneflowers, monarda, rudbeckia, obedient plant, downy sunflower, cardinal flowers, swamp milkweed, etc. All the tall green things a month ago are now blooming, so I don’t know how they see stuff as weeds. UGH.

]]> By: Netha https://awaytogarden.com/site-preparations-for-meadow-making-with-benjamin-vogt/comment-page-13/#comment-1391962 Sat, 03 Aug 2024 18:17:55 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=54742#comment-1391962 Thank you for this informative episode!

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