Re: CULT: Lazy Man's New Flower Bed

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This is my third year doing this.  Thought some of you might be interested.  My yard had the topsoil stripped and sold when the house was built 35 years ago.  I lay down 6 layer thickness of newsprint (any less and the dandelions and clover find their way through) overlapping all joints.  Then lay on at least 8 inches of (very fluffy) horse manure compost and let it sit until next year, when I will dig only where I'm planting and use the soil from the bottom of the hole for the top 4 inches, mixing the rest in the hole.  Any weeds that sprout between (very few from blown-in seeds) are really easy to pull out of this light, fluffy compost.  So far, no rot in my climate doing this.

 

BTW, this was not my idea. I read it somewhere on the internet and decided to try it.

 

Anybody have a picture of Bernice's Legacy?  Stalk up on it and I bought it sight unseen.

 

Mary Lou, near Indianapolis, Z5