I planned on having a garden this year. I hadn't had a garden for several years now and the grass grew in the old garden spot. After I used Bob and Jan's rototiller to dig their garden I came down to dig my garden.
For the past month I had laid plastic and tarps over the spot where I was going to have a garden.
When it came time to remove them to dig the garden I found the black plastic killed the grass while the blue tarps did not. Unfortunately I had more blue tarps than black plastic.
I mowed the grass then started to rototill. The grass roots were dense and the ground was harder than I expected. After a number of passes to break up the ground I looked down and saw lots and lots of grass roots.
Healthy looking grass roots.
Very healthy looking grass roots. Too healthy looking. I lost my strawberry garden because I couldn't keep the grass roots out. So I threw in the towel and quit roto-tilling. I will have to find a way this Summer to kill the grass and its roots. Then next year I will have a garden.
Once I quit roto-tilling the garden Daisy came and played in the freshly dug dirt. Follow this link to her blog to see her in action.
http://tallpinescat.blogspot.com/2013/06/in-garden.html
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