In fact, there's a way that allows you to construct right on top your lawn to make a bigger flower bed: Sheet mulching or no-dig gardening.

Through a process called sheet mulching, you can create a planting bed right over existing turf grass (or even over weeds). It does not require rototilling or herbicides, but does involve planning ...

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When making a flower bed from a lawn, if I use Roundup to kill off the lawn, how soon is it OK to plant? I've also heard it's OK to dump few inches of compost directly over the dead grass and skip ...