How to turn your lawn into your lunch | Growing Fruit And Vegies | Gardening Australia

Only a few years ago, Millie’s whole garden was a grassed area. While she loves a spot of lawn and backyard cricket, she loves growing food too, so she shows how easy it is to convert some lawn to lunch.

You can dig up your lawn but it’s hard work and you lose the topsoil in the process - which is the best growing resource a garden has.

Millie has been smothering the grass in one patch of lawn with sheets of tin but you can use a tarpaulin or cardboard too. Tin also cooks the grass, which helps with tough grasses like couch. She aerates the ground with a fork and then works through the area to remove any grass runners that are still alive - they are especially found at the edges, where they hit barriers.

To bring some life back to the baked soil, Millie adds organic matter - composted horse manure or compost. She adds a path of wood chips along the edge to access the bed without walking on it.

When planting out, choose a fast-turnaround crop to go in first because there is always the risk there will be some grass runners left that will regrow; a long-term crop will give any leftover grass time to reestablish.

Millie plants out a series of fast-growing crops: peas, turnips, mustard, rocket, silverbeet, plus radish.

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