new bed

18 years ago

i put this in soil forum cuz the first and foremost question is regarding soil, lol. i am making a flower bed in front of my house using creek rock as edging, the soil will be about 3 to 4 inches higher than the lawn, i haven't filled it completely yet, but here's what i did.

first spread a thin layer of compost over the bed and the took a gardening fork and stabbed the soil and pryed (sp?) it loose to break it up a lil and aerate it.

then i put a small layer of dry leaves from a inactive compost pile. for organic matter, nutrients, and to smother the leaves until i had time to fill the bed the rest of the way w/ soil.

i then put a lil top soil in the bed, enough to cover most of the leaves, a lot of leaves are still showing which if fine cuz i'm going to cover then up w/ more soil, and then mulch.

but before i fill it in, is there anything i should do regarding the leaves etc.?

and anybody got a suggestion about weedeating, keep grass cut, at the edgging, i'm sure some of you know how hard it is to cut that grass, i thought about putting a small mulch line against the rock on the outside of the edging.

thanks

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maryann_____chgo
18 years ago
Is this the type of edging you're talking about? I determined the best way to keep the lawn grasses from creeping into the edging is to remove a width of sod, line the depression with newsprint, then fill in with hardwood mulch.

Rocks were stacked against the lasagna bedding materials holding it up 6" higher than the grass. Lawn mower wheels move easily along the mulch border, the weed wacker is used now and then to crisp the grass line. No soil was added to this bed.

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Lloyd
18 years ago
Nice picture, I think somebody really likes hostas! But I have to ask, we stopped mowing to take a picture? LOL

Lloyd
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maryann_____chgo
18 years ago
Lloyd, take your pick .. . .

1) The grass is all sposed to be mowed at the same time?
2) Passerbys enjoy wondering 'what IS it she doing now?'
3) An experiment in garden design.
4) I ran out of gas.
5) I stopped to take a picture.
Lloyd
18 years ago
6) I put so many UCG's on the lawn it grows as fast as I can cut it! LOL

Lloyd
west9491
Original Author
18 years ago
yeah, it's kinda like that, but my rocks are...i dunno...jagged? definitely not rounded like yours.

but i seed what ur saying, i think ill go back through and lay newspaper down and put the rock back over it, then mulch, waddaya think?