Benny Jeremiah

Janet Reed, i have previously removed grass by hand, put in cardboard and on top of that bought in plant dirt from the supermarket..... resulting in lots of grass, so i gather that the dirt had lots of grass-seeds in it. Not going to do that again. This time i'll attempt like you have tried, removing the grass, and planting straight in it.

Anyone else have tried this?

I tried to dig the lawn out this summer, by hand, but everything grew back quickly. Normal northern european lawngrass, not the tropical devellish kinds.

If you have experience with the following, please answer my question:
If i use a bobcat or bulldozer to remove the lawn (scraping a handlength of the top and taking it away) and plant it densely with vegetables and keep the ground covered with mulch, will the grass grow back quickly or do i have several years without any grass?

What about used horse bedding pellets as mulch, over growing garden sprouts - would the ammonia from the horse pee be too much for the plants?
Does anyone have experience with used / spoiled horse bedding pellets in the garden?

so a THIN layer of hay on top after sowing, can do it? (the plants will sprout and the hay is not thick enough to smother them completely)
Or the shredded wood chips?

Or rather, as you say. she does say pull back the hay to plant, then cover back up: http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/ruth-stouts-system-zmaz04fmzsel "You plant exactly as you always have, in the Earth. You pull back the mulch and put the seeds in the ground and cover them just as you would if you had never heard of mulching."

No pots, just seeds.
For example radishes amongst garlic, brussels sprouts amoungst strawberries, tomatoes on top of potatoes. like that.

I want to start my first real garden.
I recieve it tilled but the owner says there are a lot of grass and other weed seeds in, so my plan is to...

1) Put my vegetable seeds into/on the ground
2) cover everything with hay, preferably wet - i might be able to get something from an organic pig/cow farmer.
3) Put up a scarecrow
4) do nothing else!

Will this way get the vegetables to come up but NOT weeds?  How does that work?

I want to plant several species closely together, low and high closely, then further down the line shift which low/high species are combined/planted. I have about 20 different vegetables to combine in a relatively small plot.
Do you have experience with how close i can do this without it going bad?

bulk dry soybeans?
I'll keep a look out for those. Thanks for that tip - i'm not used to dried beans and similar stuff.

I just want to recommend https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Saving-Starting-Guides/dp/1615641378
It's quite easy to understand, although there's far too few pictures.

These days i'm hoarding fruit and vegetables to save the seeds - even got frogskin melon-seeds which the seed companies doesnt seem to have - but i could have saved myself buying all those cucumbers if i had read this book first.
Next stop will be the grain-isles.

Is it possible to sow edamame/soy beans from blanched frozen ones in store bought bags?