You saved me an entire day of back breaking work (and possible heat stroke) digging up half my lawn for a massive garden bed. And you make it look so effortless that I even planned a cute little bonus garden by my sidewalk, if I don't have to dig up grass using cardboard.... My lawn is not safe from me! It will be a beautiful garden by next summer... Thank you Jay!
I made an entire garden bed using cardboard and newspapers. It's called lasagna composting. I laid it directly on the grass area I wanted to turn into a garden bed ,and then covered it with bags of topsoil.
Yes. Don't do the back breaking work when you can be lazy and nourishment soil by sheet mulching. Make sure you wet the ground and cardboard for quick degeneration.
Wonderful video! You've helped open my eyes to new possibilities in my yard other than dozens of pots! haha! Concise and straightforward! And you bed is beautiful.
Thank you for posting this! I've been saving cardboard but really had no idea how to install it. Your method made me confident that I could do the same! I'm going on 64 years young so any labor-saving methods are appreciated!
So very thankful to have found your inspirational content! I’ve been hopelessly staring at a very overgrown, weedy fence line! I’m so ready to incorporate this method! WOWWWW! 🥰
Thank you so much for sharing the video of how it looked later in June. You’ve given me hope for my hopelessly overgrown flower bed in the home we just moved into.
Wow. This is the most amazing transition I have ever seen! Thank you for sharing your method . I forgot about watering the cardboard, so thanks for showing that. Really looks nice! New subbie.
Great video! I especially enjoyed the fast-motion sequence of progress in action. I only just started using the cardboard method with last year's new garden, with gratifying results. Thanks for sharing your wonderful gardens there!
Thank you so much, Robert! Sheet mulching has definitely saved my back and has allowed me to build lots of new beautiful garden spaces. Happy gardening!🌱🌱🌱
I just "found" and subscribed to Jay's Garden Journal. If this video is an example of her posts, she's someone to watch regularly. A very natural, relaxed, enjoyable and well-done work of RUclips art. (Terrific use of music.) Thank you, Jay.
I am so glad I found your channel! It’s given me hope that I can achieve the garden of my dreams, or well close, lol. We are starting from scratch and have a sticker (goatheads) infestation. Trying to get that under control and then focus on some garden beds.
I have been looking for someone in South Carolina that had a RUclips. I am so thankful I found you on Instagram. This is amazing. I just can’t get out in the garden like I used to and wow thank you for sharing!
I'm doing this with a pathetic strip of grass in my front yard. It's never grown well because of shade from the trees. So nice to see the results! Love it! ❤❤❤
Later, plants may breach, dig out the spot, apply more cardboard, mulch, grass clippings, leaf mold, shredded bark, compost. No worries. Love the method. No Dig Garden is a good method for low energy gardener's.
I love this method. I used cardboard once and i had to listen to my husband complain about it looking like we lived way far up in the mountains. You showed me the part that i neglected to do and that is to cover it with mulch. Thanks Jay!
Nice! Thanks for making the effort to share this. I am going to do the same thing but thought I had to get all the weeds out first! I prefer your method! 🌿🌞
Love this! I've also collected cardboard and am about to create an area for planting with it. I really enjoyed the video and your presentation. Thorough and well done. Many years ago, I had a gorgeous flower bed that I did similar using brown paper grocery bags.. lol.. long long ago.......😂
This is fantastic to know about - thank you so much! (Those Canna Lilies definitely fall into your category of perennials you’ll never need to buy again!!)
It’s amazing how simple of a solution yet it looks very well done. Thank you for the update! I currently am battling drought which isn’t anything new but this last year KS among nearby states experienced dust storms that were reminiscent of the dirty thirties plus I have this awful Bermuda grass that won’t die and is killing off my fescue. It’s in my neighborhood so there isn’t an escape as it spreads very easily yet looks dead without consistent watering so I’ve decided to cover 1/3 of my yard with either pea gravel/river rock, crushed stone or cedar mulch and that’s where I have my ibc tote garden beds set up at. I just don’t want to dig out this viney, difficult to dig out grass that’ll only come back if I can’t successfully solarize it as it’s done this in small gardens around the yard. I read that multiple, thick layers of cardboard (3-4 layers) plus landscape fabric will actually keep Bermuda grass from coming back 🤞🏽I hope so, your garden looks great and clean of grass so thank you for sharing!
Great video! Very inspiring. I have already started sheet mulching an area of grass that I want to get rid of. Need room to expand my perennials! Thanks!
What a treat to watch your ideas and work come to life. Please excuse my directness, but I just want to come in and paint your white shed a dark color, like charcoal grey or grey/green. Sorry can’t help it. The decorator comes out in me. Really inspiring garden. I especially enjoyed your canna surprise.
Love the video ... I used end rolls of newspaper paper from a local print shop ... got 5 for $2 a roll several years ago and I still have some left... just did multiple layers found it blew around less then the regular newspaper ... easy to sculpt around the areas I wanted. ... used multiple layers.
Oh my! I just laid cardboard a few weeks ago to cover patchy spots of my centipede lawn. My plan is to plant wildflowers that are more adaptable to that part of the property's partial shade. I figured grass/weed suffocation would mean less strain on my back. Your video is inspirational!
Thank you for sharing this video it was fabulous. I recently did this and one of my garden beds and laid a stepping stone path over The sheet mulch. New subscriber, love your channel.😊
You wet it down to get it to stay in place! I was using duck tape which I didn't care for but didn't know a better way. Thank you! If you were like me somewhere underneath all that would be your long lost box cutter 🤣🤣
I am doing the same cardboard method in many areas on my property. However, I would rethink the newspaper -- unless things have changed, it's my understanding that the ink contains pretty toxic chemicals. Of course that how he doesn't matter with flowers but with vegetable gardens it could be important.
Your work ideas are mine! I am doing that to get rid of pesky confederate jasmine!!! I also do it for establishing flower beds. Back saving! I add a thick layer of cheap soil about 3 inches deep, then another 3 inches of good soil and compost with amendments for new plants.
Yes you reminded me of the cardboard and newspaper.We have a good collection of boxes that have been growing in the garage .Thanks .One question why are you adding news paper would you use boxes if you had enough ?
Thanks for showing how you use cardboard and newspaper for weed control. I never new! I'm going to use this technique. I'm interested in how you put the wire on your fence. Your technique, type of wire, etc. I have a 3 rail fence and I want to do the same thing. I just don't know how to put it on so the dog doesn't get under the fence. TIA!
Looks good. So you don’t have to weed out the weeds before laying down the cardboard? The cardboard just kills the weeds and grass by covering them up? Cool.
@@jaysgardenjournal thank you, I'm getting ready for Tomorrow. I'm doing my mulch. From what you had and what you did, just wow!!! I can't lose , it's biodegradable!!!
Thanks so much for this video. What type of mulch were you using here and about how much would you say it took for this area? I’m going to attempt to do something similar on a smaller scale. :) I’m learning.
You saved me an entire day of back breaking work (and possible heat stroke) digging up half my lawn for a massive garden bed. And you make it look so effortless that I even planned a cute little bonus garden by my sidewalk, if I don't have to dig up grass using cardboard.... My lawn is not safe from me! It will be a beautiful garden by next summer... Thank you Jay!
Outstanding!!!
I made an entire garden bed using cardboard and newspapers. It's called lasagna composting. I laid it directly on the grass area I wanted to turn into a garden bed ,and then covered it with bags of topsoil.
Yes. Don't do the back breaking work when you can be lazy and nourishment soil by sheet mulching. Make sure you wet the ground and cardboard for quick degeneration.
@@WorldArtToursnet Should I plant first and then do the cardboard? Or can I plant on top of the cardboard?
@rimuruslime23 did anyone ever answer you? I was wondering the same thing.
Wonderful video! You've helped open my eyes to new possibilities in my yard other than dozens of pots! haha! Concise and straightforward! And you bed is beautiful.
Glad it was helpful!
Love to see smarter, not harder, brilliant work. Thank you!
Thank you so much! 🌱🌱
@@jaysgardenjournal It looks like you are gardening in sandy soil, mine here in East Central Texas is a gray sand.
Incredible work, sister! 🔥Just did this inside my garden beds. So excited❤🔥
Thank you so much! Happy gardening🌱🌱
Wow. That cleaned that area up relatively easily. Looks nice. Love the Charlie Brown kind of music ☺️☺️☺️💕
Thank you!!🌱🌱
What a difference! Your garden looks great. Thanks for letting us see how you did it.
Absolutely! Happy gardening! 🌱🌱🌱
WOW! What a transformation! Totally agree with other commenters you make it look so easy. Very inspiring! Thank you!
Thank you for posting this! I've been saving cardboard but really had no idea how to install it. Your method made me confident that I could do the same! I'm going on 64 years young so any labor-saving methods are appreciated!
You're very welcome!
So very thankful to have found your inspirational content! I’ve been hopelessly staring at a very overgrown, weedy fence line! I’m so ready to incorporate this method! WOWWWW! 🥰
look at Charles Dowding if you are interested in no dig gardening
Is it anything different than the content here? Trying to keep it simple! 😉
Go for it, Lisa! Keep it super simple!
Thank you so much for sharing the video of how it looked later in June. You’ve given me hope for my hopelessly overgrown flower bed in the home we just moved into.
Thank you so much! Happy gardening🌱🌱
Wow! That made your plants just pop. Before they were lost. Very nice.
Indeed! Thanks for visiting the garden!
Wow! Thank you! So inspirational! The transformation is beautiful!
Thank you so much!
Love the background music and the gardening ideas!
Wow. This is the most amazing transition I have ever seen! Thank you for sharing your method . I forgot about watering the cardboard, so thanks for showing that. Really looks nice! New subbie.
Awesome!
Great video! I especially enjoyed the fast-motion sequence of progress in action. I only just started using the cardboard method with last year's new garden, with gratifying results. Thanks for sharing your wonderful gardens there!
Thank you so much, Robert! Sheet mulching has definitely saved my back and has allowed me to build lots of new beautiful garden spaces. Happy gardening!🌱🌱🌱
I just "found" and subscribed to Jay's Garden Journal. If this video is an example of her posts, she's someone to watch regularly. A very natural, relaxed, enjoyable and well-done work of RUclips art. (Terrific use of music.) Thank you, Jay.
I am so glad I found your channel! It’s given me hope that I can achieve the garden of my dreams, or well close, lol. We are starting from scratch and have a sticker (goatheads) infestation. Trying to get that under control and then focus on some garden beds.
You can do it!🌼🌼
Soil becomes so rich with nutrients that feed the plants. Looks amazing!🎉
Yes it does! 🌱🌱🌱
I'm just finishing up my lil project as well. Can't wait for the results!
I have been looking for someone in South Carolina that had a RUclips. I am so thankful I found you on Instagram. This is amazing. I just can’t get out in the garden like I used to and wow thank you for sharing!
You are so welcome!🌱💚 same here! I used to search for South Carolina gardeners. Also check out The Colorful Gardener’s channel.
Your garden looks fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing your skills.😊
You are very welcome!
I'm doing this with a pathetic strip of grass in my front yard. It's never grown well because of shade from the trees. So nice to see the results! Love it! ❤❤❤
Go for it!
Later, plants may breach, dig out the spot, apply more cardboard, mulch, grass clippings, leaf mold, shredded bark, compost. No worries. Love the method. No Dig Garden is a good method for low energy gardener's.
I love this method. I used cardboard once and i had to listen to my husband complain about it looking like we lived way far up in the mountains. You showed me the part that i neglected to do and that is to cover it with mulch. Thanks Jay!
Nice! Thanks for making the effort to share this. I am going to do the same thing but thought I had to get all the weeds out first! I prefer your method! 🌿🌞
Thank you so much! Happy gardening🌱🌱
Looks fabulous!! Great idea! Thank you for sharing. Your garden is BEAUTIFUL!! 💖🙏
Thank you for visiting the garden!🌱🌱🌱
Very interesting Jay! Cardboard works very well to start a No Dig Garden! Thanks for sharing your techniques.
Thank you for watching!
So beautiful. Brilliant technique to do a major garden bed upgrade!
Thank you! 🌱🌱🌱
Do you find that using paper & cardboard brings more mice ?
Thanks
That looks so good.
Thank you! 🌱🌱🌱🌷
Omgosh ❤ I use cardboard in our garden as well its proven to be such a blessing in keeping out grass and weeds
The best!🌱🌱🌱
I'm working on to plant perennial high flowers, for beauty, to fill in some empty spaces and suggestions?
Love this! I've also collected cardboard and am about to create an area for planting with it. I really enjoyed the video and your presentation. Thorough and well done. Many years ago, I had a gorgeous flower bed that I did similar using brown paper grocery bags.. lol.. long long ago.......😂
Awesome! Thank you!
Just discovered you. Great video! I also really enjoyed the music
Awesome! Thank you!
Girl, you got some energy! Thanks for the great idea!
Wow, what beautiful results, Jay’s Garden Journal 🌱 I’m going to try this on some Shiny Geraniums that are spreading everywhere! Thank You 😊
Awesome!
Just came across your channel. Thank you for the video. This will save me a lot of back-breaking work. 🌱🌿☘️
Absolutely, Beverly! 🌱🌱🌱
This is fantastic to know about - thank you so much! (Those Canna Lilies definitely fall into your category of perennials you’ll never need to buy again!!)
yes yes yes. And this is wonderful for the soil.It feeds worms and breaks down compacted soil.
Yes it does!
So pretty, thank you my dear. Such a great idea. Be well. 🙏
You are so welcome. Thank you! 🌱🌱
What a transformation!! It really looks beautiful 😍
Thank you!! 😊
It’s amazing how simple of a solution yet it looks very well done. Thank you for the update! I currently am battling drought which isn’t anything new but this last year KS among nearby states experienced dust storms that were reminiscent of the dirty thirties plus I have this awful Bermuda grass that won’t die and is killing off my fescue. It’s in my neighborhood so there isn’t an escape as it spreads very easily yet looks dead without consistent watering so I’ve decided to cover 1/3 of my yard with either pea gravel/river rock, crushed stone or cedar mulch and that’s where I have my ibc tote garden beds set up at. I just don’t want to dig out this viney, difficult to dig out grass that’ll only come back if I can’t successfully solarize it as it’s done this in small gardens around the yard. I read that multiple, thick layers of cardboard (3-4 layers) plus landscape fabric will actually keep Bermuda grass from coming back 🤞🏽I hope so, your garden looks great and clean of grass so thank you for sharing!
Happy gardening to you! 🌱🌱🌱
Love your technique
You are a girl after this girls heart. 🌸🌸
Thank you so much, Kathryn! 🌱🌱
I’m so glad I found you channel I came across your page on IG !! I love your gardens !!! It’s definitely the motivation I need right now !
Thank you so much!!💚💚💚
Beautiful!!! 🤗🙏🏼😍
Thank you!!
All I can say is,”FANTASTIC”!
Thank you so much! 🌱🌱
WoW Girl! You work Fast 😉
Beautiful Garden 🦋
Thank you so much 😊
Wow!! This looks wonderful! Well done!!
Beautifully demonstrated, thank you 💚
Thank you for visiting the garden!🌱🌱🌱
I love this, thank you!! So inspiring. Just started sheet mulching and now feel like i can do my whole yard. :)
How exciting!
Great video! Very inspiring. I have already started sheet mulching an area of grass that I want to get rid of. Need room to expand my perennials! Thanks!
You can do it!🌱🌱🌱
Great job! Watch out for those canna lilies though - they spread like MAD.
Great demo. Thanks so much for taking the mystery out of this.
So cool ! It turned out beautiful. I wish I could move as fast as you LOL ! My age and health has made me give up a lot of my flower beds.♡♡♡♡♡
Thank you for visiting the garden, Peggy!🌱💚
Lotta work girl! Great job! I'm ready to get to work on my yard! :)
You got this!
What a treat to watch your ideas and work come to life. Please excuse my directness, but I just want to come in and paint your white shed a dark color, like charcoal grey or grey/green. Sorry can’t help it. The decorator comes out in me. Really inspiring garden. I especially enjoyed your canna surprise.
I may need to send you my address!🤣😂🤣
This was very helpful! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for visiting the garden
Wow, what a great job! Thank you.
Beautiful
Thank you!
Ill have to give cardboard and newspapers a try in my garden. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for visiting the garden!🌱🌱🌱
Lovely - just lovely & so helpful.
Thank you! 😊
Love the video ... I used end rolls of newspaper paper from a local print shop ... got 5 for $2 a roll several years ago and I still have some left... just did multiple layers found it blew around less then the regular newspaper ... easy to sculpt around the areas I wanted. ... used multiple layers.
That is outstanding! Rolls of cardboard are ideal!
Awesome!thank you for this amazing idea
You are so welcome!
Oh my! I just laid cardboard a few weeks ago to cover patchy spots of my centipede lawn. My plan is to plant wildflowers that are more adaptable to that part of the property's partial shade. I figured grass/weed suffocation would mean less strain on my back. Your video is inspirational!
Awesome!!
Great job looks 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you!! 😊
Thank you for sharing this video it was fabulous. I recently did this and one of my garden beds and laid a stepping stone path over The sheet mulch. New subscriber, love your channel.😊
Great idea. Thank you so much!
Very well done! The video and the improvements.
Thank you very much!
It looks great!
Thanks, Lexy!
Great video. Thank you for sharing. 😊
Thanks for watching!
Looks fantastic!!
Thank you so much!!🌱🌱
Beautiful job !
Thank you for visiting the garden!🌱🌱🌱
Beautiful job!❤
Thank you! 😊
nice🥰🥰 outcome
Thank you 🤗
Nice!😊
Thanks! 😄
Wow!! This is life changing!!
Thank you! 🌱🌱
Nice.. My support for your channel stay connected always
Thank you so much!
where is this beautiful place? so much peace and beauty
You wet it down to get it to stay in place! I was using duck tape which I didn't care for but didn't know a better way. Thank you! If you were like me somewhere underneath all that would be your long lost box cutter 🤣🤣
I am doing the same cardboard method in many areas on my property. However, I would rethink the newspaper -- unless things have changed, it's my understanding that the ink contains pretty toxic chemicals. Of course that how he doesn't matter with flowers but with vegetable gardens it could be important.
What genius!
Thank you so much! 🌱🌱
Well done! Way to go! 👍👍👍
Thank you! 🌱🌱
AWESOME JOB AND IT LOOKS GREAT!!!!!
Thanks!!
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing :)
I done this when we put river rock down..done great...
Awesome video. Thanks!
I’m loving it also..thanks!
Awesome video
Glad you enjoyed it🌱🌱
Awesome results ❤
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Amazing. Thanks 👍
I use heavy duty cardboard under wood mulch, the worms love it.
Indeed!
Nice thank you
Thank you for visiting the garden!🌱🌱🌱
Your work ideas are mine! I am doing that to get rid of pesky confederate jasmine!!! I also do it for establishing flower beds. Back saving! I add a thick layer of cheap soil about 3 inches deep, then another 3 inches of good soil and compost with amendments for new plants.
Yes you reminded me of the cardboard and newspaper.We have a good collection of boxes that have been growing in the garage .Thanks .One question why are you adding news paper would you use boxes if you had enough ?
Can you please tell me the name of your theme song? Sounds like Vince Guaraldi, great pianist. Love it!
Thanks for showing how you use cardboard and newspaper for weed control. I never new! I'm going to use this technique. I'm interested in how you put the wire on your fence. Your technique, type of wire, etc. I have a 3 rail fence and I want to do the same thing. I just don't know how to put it on so the dog doesn't get under the fence. TIA!
That is my neighbor's fence. :)
nice job !!
Thanks!
Awesome 😮❤!!!
Looks good. So you don’t have to weed out the weeds before laying down the cardboard? The cardboard just kills the weeds and grass by covering them up? Cool.
Exactly! If the weeds are tall, I will chop them down first
That is beautiful!!
I'm definitely laying the cardboard before mulch.
It's 2023 , how's it looking??
I will do an update! Thanks!
@@jaysgardenjournal thank you, I'm getting ready for Tomorrow. I'm doing my mulch. From what you had and what you did, just wow!!! I can't lose , it's biodegradable!!!
Alsome thanks will try your Alsome idea 🥀
I like the way you think! The KISS method: Keep It Simple, Sister!
Indeed!
Thanks so much for this video. What type of mulch were you using here and about how much would you say it took for this area? I’m going to attempt to do something similar on a smaller scale. :) I’m learning.
This job took about 15 bags of mulch. I prefer to get wood chips from an arborist but that is not always available.
@@jaysgardenjournal thank you!! You’re very talented. ❤️