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How to Dig up Your Lawn and use Mini Green Houses
Here are photos showing how to mark the area of lawn under each green house, and how to dig up the grass. Once the sod is tripped off, each square garden area is dug about a foot deep. The dug up soil is dumped in a wheel barrow and mixed with rich compost. The mixture is then added back into the hole, and the mini green house is placed over it. One nice thing about digging garden beds into your lawn, is that you can leave strips of grass in between each bed to make green pathways
between your vegetable plots. The grass is soft to kneel on when planting and weeding, and it keeps the garden looking neat.
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4 mini greenhouses built & ready to go!
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Use a shovel to mark each corner edge.
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He's digging with a square-tipped shovel.
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We only want to remove the portion of lawn that rests under the green house.
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The lawn left between each green house will make attractive paths.
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Now there is enough of an outline to see where to dig the garden bed.
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Pokes the edge of the shovel just beneath the top layer of grass.
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With a shoving motion, he lefts up the entire edge of lawn.
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Shovelling forward, the lawn rolls over.
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It's just like peeling back a carpet!
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This stuff is heavy! but it rolls up easily. The sod strips will be laid, grass side down, on our compost pile. That way the grass will die off and we'll get some composted soil back.
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Stip by strip, nice soil is revealed under all that grass.
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If you like, unroll the sod strips and scrape extra soil off the back. Good soil is hard to find!
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Once the lawn is stripped, get to work and dig about a foot deep. She piles each shovel full into a wheelbarrow. This soil is full of worms, a good sign.
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One mini green house empty bed. Next, mix rich compost into the dug up soil in the wheelbarrow, and dump it all back into the bed. More photos coming soon!
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