6/2/2020 0 Comments Grass RemovalGrass removal is tedious, hot and definitely boring work when you're doing it by yourself and by hand. But on the upside, since most of the grass isn't really grass it came up much quicker than expected. Thank you shallow root weeds! Of course when you pull up grass by hand you start to think that you should have made the garden much smaller, but then you think about all the plants you ordered and wonder if its going to be big enough. Such a wonderful paradox.
I highly recommend not doing this in the heat - either do this in the early spring or fall, but if you must definitely do this on cool days or in the evening. Heat is your biggest enemy for this type of work. And plan on being sore, especially if you do your grass removal by hand. So if you have access to a working tiller definitely use one of these. You'll still have to do some grass and root removal, but at least the hard part of pulling it up will be done for you. You must be asking yourself why we did this part by hand if we could have done it with a tiller - well let's just say that luck wasn't in our favor when it came to machinery. Oh the other thing to count on is is getting absolutely filthy! I'm pretty sure Miss Renee went home covered in more dust and dirt than most little kids do after playing in a sandbox!
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