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Q.Tilling Grass

Anonymous added on April 13, 2014 | Answered

Do you have to get all of the grass up before you start to till a garden? Or can you just till over the grass?

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Nikki
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Answered on April 13, 2014

You can actually go ahead and till the grass, provided it has not seeded. Then you could either treat the area after tilling with Round-up 2-3 weeks before planting the garden, or you could lay down some type of barrier, like landscape fabric or newspaper, to keep weeds out.

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