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.
The plant matter that dies underneath the cardboard will feed the soil and worms will come up and start breaking down the plant matter, cardboard and, over time, eventually the wood mulch too. Your soil will get better drainage, and better texture and soil structure. It’s a really great choice! 🥰
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! ❤❤❤
I do this all the time and it works so well. Thank you very much for showing people how! However I do not add the soil on top of the newspaper cuz then the weeds will just layer up on top of that. Put down some mulch spray some water on it and put down more mulch will hold it just as effectively if not more. I also blend shredded hardwood with pine mulch (not pine nuggets) and the combination is really good for your soil and the plants and it helps to lock in the mulch. Gorgeous gorgeous job! Wow❤
I grew up on this method and I’m 70….I have my chewy boxes in my beds now. I haven’t decided what I’m going to plant yet as I have half sun and shade in the area, but I wanted to get a head start on knocking down the grass and weeds…great video….
I did this with newspapers,12 sheets thick, for years in my vegetable garden (since about 1990). I used the red mulch and my garden was beautiful and weed free all year. The following spring, mulch of the paper was deteriorated and composted into the ground. Your flower bed looks amazing!
So much enjoyed your video! I've been researching the cardboard technique and I so much appreciate your particular way of doing it. It's early September in Dallas, Texas, and I'm going to start using cardboard to set up my yard for the spring. So glad I found your channel!
Happy to see this has caught on! 30 years ago when I began using newspapers/cardboard instead of digging my beds, my neighbors all teased me about it…they don’t anymooooore😆😁😁🥰🥰🥰 Your gardens are lookin’ good❣️👍🏼❣️👍🏼❣️
I love the speeded up part of the video. Saves so much time on the part of viewers. The end result is beautiful. And I love your mix of yellow and pink flowers and foliage!
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 UA-cam art. (Terrific use of music.) Thank you, Jay.
This is THE BEST gardening with cardboard newspaper add soil mulch directions ever. I have looked at many mansplaining ( duh) etc and I finally get the idea with more clarity THANK you for your rate of speech and enunciation with ever step!!!
I also sheet mulch. We have a local appliance store that lets me take all the cardboard I want from their dumpster. I can get some very large sheets. Which is great when your doing a large area. Great video! 😊
Love this video, it’s very helpful to hear your thought process. I used sheet mulching to more than triple my planter area, and I’m not done yet. My only thought is to remind your viewers not to smother plants with to thick a mulch.
Love this video.I was told old school way of breaking,digging and tilling damages the soil’s biological balance.This lasagna method was suggested so helpful to see a demonstration of the method.Love your hat
Thank you for this. a bed that looks more like we are all having to deal with. Other sites show the technique but always starting with simpler or new beds, mine are like yours lots of plants to work around with the grass and of course - weeds. The newspaper bit was very useful as well. This is my first visit to your site but certainly not the last. Subscribed and thanks again.
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.
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 opened a 50m2 garden by hard digging up the lawn, stressed 😩. So fortunate to watch this video, no stress anymore for the garden plans on the agenda. 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!
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!
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.
I have been looking for someone in South Carolina that had a UA-cam. 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!
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!!)
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.
The plant matter that dies underneath the cardboard will feed the soil and worms will come up and start breaking down the plant matter, cardboard and, over time, eventually the wood mulch too. Your soil will get better drainage, and better texture and soil structure. It’s a really great choice! 🥰
Absolutely!
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!
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.
Great demo using everyday items; and thank you for filming it step by step. Best wishes!!!
You are so welcome!
I love this, thank you!! So inspiring. Just started sheet mulching and now feel like i can do my whole yard. :)
How exciting!
Beautiful. Your hard work shows inthe results..
Thank you so much 😊
Wow! Thank you! So inspirational! The transformation is beautiful!
Thank you so much!
Incredible work, sister! 🔥Just did this inside my garden beds. So excited❤🔥
Thank you so much! Happy gardening🌱🌱
I do this all the time and it works so well. Thank you very much for showing people how!
However I do not add the soil on top of the newspaper cuz then the weeds will just layer up on top of that. Put down some mulch spray some water on it and put down more mulch will hold it just as effectively if not more. I also blend shredded hardwood with pine mulch (not pine nuggets) and the combination is really good for your soil and the plants and it helps to lock in the mulch.
Gorgeous gorgeous job! Wow❤
Nice method! Happy gardening!
Hi Jay, I really love these before and after videos where we’re able to see the transformation right away🤩
Thanks for watching and thank you for the feedback! 🌱
I grew up on this method and I’m 70….I have my chewy boxes in my beds now. I haven’t decided what I’m going to plant yet as I have half sun and shade in the area, but I wanted to get a head start on knocking down the grass and weeds…great video….
I did this with newspapers,12 sheets thick, for years in my vegetable garden (since about 1990). I used the red mulch and my garden was beautiful and weed free all year. The following spring, mulch of the paper was deteriorated and composted into the ground. Your flower bed looks amazing!
Thank you! 🌱🌱
Newspaper for mulch for vegetable garden? Maybe u think again. Why would anyone eat toxic newspaper
i was wondering if you could just use newspaper.
So much enjoyed your video! I've been researching the cardboard technique and I so much appreciate your particular way of doing it. It's early September in Dallas, Texas, and I'm going to start using cardboard to set up my yard for the spring. So glad I found your channel!
Glad it was helpful!🌱🌱🌱
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?
Happy to see this has caught on! 30 years ago when I began using newspapers/cardboard instead of digging my beds, my neighbors all teased me about it…they don’t anymooooore😆😁😁🥰🥰🥰 Your gardens are lookin’ good❣️👍🏼❣️👍🏼❣️
It’s such a great method!! Happy gardening!
I love the speeded up part of the video. Saves so much time on the part of viewers. The end result is beautiful. And I love your mix of yellow and pink flowers and foliage!
Thank you! 🌱🌱🌱🌷
I use heavy duty cardboard under wood mulch, the worms love it.
Indeed!
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 UA-cam art. (Terrific use of music.) Thank you, Jay.
This is THE BEST gardening with cardboard newspaper add soil mulch directions ever. I have looked at many mansplaining ( duh) etc and I finally get the idea with more clarity THANK you for your rate of speech and enunciation with ever step!!!
Wow! That made your plants just pop. Before they were lost. Very nice.
Indeed! Thanks for visiting the garden!
Great video. Thank you for sharing. 😊
Thanks for watching!
What a difference! Your garden looks great. Thanks for letting us see how you did it.
Absolutely! Happy gardening! 🌱🌱🌱
I also sheet mulch. We have a local appliance store that lets me take all the cardboard I want from their dumpster. I can get some very large sheets. Which is great when your doing a large area. Great video! 😊
goals
Thank you! ☺️
Ok I’m going to try this my so upset with the bed right now thanks
You got this!🌱🌱🌱
Nicely done........one thing i like to do is, have a big tote filled with water and soak the cardboard before I put it down.
Great idea! 🌱🌱🌱
Love this video, it’s very helpful to hear your thought process. I used sheet mulching to more than triple my planter area, and I’m not done yet. My only thought is to remind your viewers not to smother plants with to thick a mulch.
Thank you! 🍂🍂🍂
WOW! What a transformation! Totally agree with other commenters you make it look so easy. Very inspiring! Thank you!
Love this video.I was told old school way of breaking,digging and tilling damages the soil’s biological balance.This lasagna method was suggested so helpful to see a demonstration of the method.Love your hat
Great idea! Your after result is amazing, good job!
Thank you! 😊
All I can say is,”FANTASTIC”!
Thank you so much! 🌱🌱
Thank you for this. a bed that looks more like we are all having to deal with. Other sites show the technique but always starting with simpler or new beds, mine are like yours lots of plants to work around with the grass and of course - weeds. The newspaper bit was very useful as well. This is my first visit to your site but certainly not the last. Subscribed and thanks again.
Thank you so much, Linda! 🌱🌱 happy gardening to you!
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!
Beautiful! 😃😃👏🏾👏🏾❤️
Thank you! 😊
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🌱🌱
It looks good... What a difference.
Thank you so much!
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!🌼🌼
I have opened a 50m2 garden by hard digging up the lawn, stressed 😩. So fortunate to watch this video, no stress anymore for the garden plans on the agenda. Thank you.
I learned my lesson after doing the same thing
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!
yes yes yes. And this is wonderful for the soil.It feeds worms and breaks down compacted soil.
Yes it does!
Great job, a bit like how Charles Dowding does it :-)
He is definitely an inspiration! Thank you! 🌱🌱
Che bella idea ! Lo farò anch'io in una piccola aiuola .grazie sei fantastica
Thank you so much! Thank you for visiting the garden!
Wow, what a great job! Thank you.
Nice.. My support for your channel stay connected always
Thank you so much!
Beautiful transformation & garden! Thanks for sharing this great technique for us amateur gardeners! 😊👏🏾❤️🙌🏾
You are so welcome!
Wow. That cleaned that area up relatively easily. Looks nice. Love the Charlie Brown kind of music ☺️☺️☺️💕
Thank you!!🌱🌱
Looks fabulous!
That looks so good.
Thank you! 🌱🌱🌱🌷
Just discovered you. Great video! I also really enjoyed the music
Awesome! Thank you!
Beautiful!!! 🤗🙏🏼😍
Thank you!!
Amazing!
Really beautiful! !
Love this! Ty!
Wow, looks awesome.
I love this method. Your results are beautiful!
Thank you! 🌱🌱
Great job! Watch out for those canna lilies though - they spread like MAD.
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!
Awesome video. Thanks!
Looking good!
I like the way you think! The KISS method: Keep It Simple, Sister!
Indeed!
Wow!! This looks wonderful! Well done!!
Looks Great!
Thanks!
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing :)
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!
Looks great!
Thanks!
Looks so good
brilliant!
Nice work! Thanks for information!
What genius!
Thank you so much! 🌱🌱
👍 nice job.
this is exactly what I needed to see thank you :)
Awesome results ❤
It looks awesome.
This is amazing! Thank you so much. I feel prepared to so my own lawn now. I'm so inspired and can't wait to get started. 😍
Looks fantastic!!
Thank you so much!!🌱🌱
Amazing. Thanks 👍
Love your technique
You are a girl after this girls heart. 🌸🌸
Thank you so much, Kathryn! 🌱🌱
So much work!
Beautiful 🌿
Thank you! 😊
Nice work! And a sweet layout!
Very interesting Jay! Cardboard works very well to start a No Dig Garden! Thanks for sharing your techniques.
Thank you for watching!
Wonderful.
Świetny efekt 👍Dopiero zaczynam przygodę z ogrodnictwem, wiele muszę się nauczyć, dlatego dziękuję za cenne wskazówki🙏😊Greetings from Poland🌸🌸🌸
You are very welcome! Thanks for visiting the garden! 🌱🌱
Beautiful!
Thank you so much!
I have been looking for someone in South Carolina that had a UA-cam. 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.
Wow that looks amazing!!! Really inspiring, im going to give it a try
I’m loving it also..thanks!
Girl, you got some energy! Thanks for the great idea!
That looks so nice! I appreciate you showing this - I have 'thought' about doing this for a long time - now I need to just do it! Thank-you!
You can do it! Thank you so much! 🌱🌼🌸
Wow so impressive!
Awesome 😮❤!!!
Great demo. Thanks so much for taking the mystery out of this.
Thanks for sharing ❤
Thanks for watching!
nice🥰🥰 outcome
Thank you 🤗
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!!)
Beautiful job!!!
Thank you! 🌱🌱🌱
Beautiful job!❤
Thank you! 😊
It looks great!
Thanks, Lexy!
LOVE THIS