Mastodawn

#solarpunksunday #gardening #garden #jardin #garten

If you are concerned about rising food costs, please consider getting rid of your lawn.

Cheapest way to do it thread 🧵 1/
(TLDR)
-connect with arborist for free wood chips
-obtain “green” compost from local businesses
-height/fencing
-bokashi and sealed water bucket method of producing fertilizer
-leftover water from washing rice and lentils
-will be ready to plant next year, otherwise add soil if planting this year

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J blue

7/ The raised bed will be ready to plant directly into next year. If you want to plant in the bed this year, you will need to start the plants as seeds in seed starting pots then after the plant has sprouted and formed true leaves, dig a space 2-3 as large as the seed starting pot and fill with raised bed soil (another expense) and plant the seedling and cover with a thin layer of mulch.

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Malka Beth 1d ago

@jblue I've been at this & after over 4 years, unfortunately I still have a huge amount of grass, part of the problem being scale, if you dont do it all at once, it'll creep back up as a basic game of whackamole... it's on my long list to hire some help to first cut it all super short & then get & pour about 4-6inches of woodchips over my entire "grass" area, which is over 1/2 an acre.

Alternatively I might get a compact tractor & basically shred it with 2 attachments.