How to Remove Grass // Garden Answer
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She is the baddest woman gardener on CZcams period. Girl I watch you for no reason! But let me tell you this I have a herb garden now! Good idols!
I'm watching this 6 yrs later when it czme up on my Google search result.. I only found your channel 2 yrs ago and am now a dedicated fan! You haven't changed a bit, through 2 children a so many other changes. Love it all!!
Just thought I would let you know that your helpful video helped inspire me to dig up a portion of my lawn to make room for a raised bed (Mother's Day gift from my children). In addition, I used the nice pieces of sod to fill in an area I was thinking about reseeding. It took me many hours and a lot of aching muscles, but I got it done. It worked just as you showed. Thanks for making this video. It really helped show me I could do it too. My husband also now has jumped in and the very next day, placed my new raised bed in it's spot. Just dirt now and away we go...
You never look like a mess in your videos! I was actually glad to see you with some dirt on your clothes! I keep watching your channel and wondering how you manage to look so good doing all this yard work. I tend to be covered in dirt and plant matter and sweat!
You seem like such a sweet lady! My son and I are working on uplifting sod...but we've been doing it with a shovel, which works but that little shovel you used looks like it would be easier to make the cuts into the grass/dirt. Am going to Home Depot tomorrow to see if I can find a couple of those! Thank you for this insight...you've been most helpful! 😇
Can't wait to see what you plant and how it'll look like in the end. I would love to see a whole front yard re-do or something. My parents have been struggling with their front yard for years. They want something pretty but also low meaintenance and they don't want to do grass.
Plant native plants also butterfly/pollinator friendly plants, I’m gonna remove all grass in my property and create a butterfly garden to save the monarch, and save all the money it cost me to keep a healthy lawn.
I wanted to say in the comments to everyone that I just tore out all my grass and almost done landscaping and its a blissful feeling, so ladies and gentlemen go get a shovel!! Laura is rite its a great feeling! Thank you Aaron for your help!
The downfall about placing plants in any location in or near utility boxes, is that at any point in time, any and all utility companies can come and dig up that location WITHOUT approval.
the fact that you garden with your hair down will forever amaze me.
Sarah Robertson I’m always amazed she doesn’t tie it back and it always looks wonderful when she’s done whatever garden work she’s doing
I know!
Right? Her hair is always done so nicely with such a dirty job. I wear a skull cap and a bun when working on new messy gardens.
I do all my gardening with my hair down also. I always have. It just seems to stay in place.
Me too! Mine gets in my eyes and face, drives me crazy. Has to be up. Mine looks a mess after the smallest garden job and she looks amazing 🤩
CZcamsrs take note, no chatting into the camera for minutes and minutes, just a brief explanation and then a clear demonstration. Nice video.
Great video! This is harder than it looks, I can’t believe you got all that out that fast! Nicely done. I have to use a pitch fork to get under each section since my grass runs deeper and won’t “roll up”.
What good timing! I have been plotting some areas of my yard that I want to turn into flower beds and seeing this in action makes it seem like an easier task than I was anticipating.
Please help up us here in Northern Utah. We need zero scape because of our drought. I'd like to remove some thirsty grass in our backyard & replace it with something beautiful, but I don't know exactly how to go about it.
I've been pickaxing my lawn for days. Thanks for this video.
My least favorite garden activity...sod removal. And yet you made it enjoyable and fairly effortless. I love watching your videos. Your yard is amazing and I learn so much. Keep up the amazing work. Best gardening channel on CZcams!
Thanks. I was just about to start digging up my lawn with a garden fork, good thing I watched this first! 😆
Thanks! I only had a flat shovel in the shed, and this tutorial was just the one I needed!
I'm in the middle of a very similar project and was looking for ideas on removing the sod with the tools I already have. I have a similar edging tools as yours, so I'm gonna give this method a shot. Thanks for posting this video!!
You don't look like a mess! You look beautiful! I am happiest when full of dirt, too. ☺️
I love this. I have to remove a large section of sod in my backyard and started watching videos for ideas. So many of them making it a big job and now I’ve watched this and I think i can do it. Great job.
I loved this video! Watching it four years later in 2020 and I am so tickled to see you do this project.
Oh wow, I would have just attacked it head on and it would have been a mess. Cutting strips and rolling makes so much more sense. Thanks for this tip.
Nice to see a woman showing us how to do it. A lot work but I thought you were doing your whole lawn. If that was the case I would definitely hire someone to do that. It’s not just the physical labour it’s where to put this heavy grass once lifted and the weight of it. I live alone now as I’m 65 and my husband passed 17 years ago. One son and he’s always busy so that little bit you dug out would do me in dear but well done ! Good job and thank you
I was outside extending one of my flowerbeds and kept thinking that there has to be a better way.
1. My ground is super wet, which I thought would work in my favor. Nope.
2. I did not work in sections like you did so I was only getting super small sections of grass with tons of effort.
3. So glad you teach even the simplest projects for newbies like me.
Guess I will be doing this another day when the ground dries out. Now for some mint tea and a shower!
I like the method you use for removing the sod,you always make things look so easy!...Thanks for sharing!
Love your videos. I have been using a soil ripper tiller to make my flower beds but this looks so easy!
This is the video that got me hooked , and never looked back!
Me too!!
I'm impressed! You got in there and did it! And no Round-up! Double Yea!
I wish I could show you my fairy garden. I went to Home Depot a couple of days ago to get some plants, I might have gotten a little carried away. I honestly have no idea of what I got. All I know is that they all needed full sun and about the same amount of water. I used some Japanese house that I got from a bonsai planter. I used sand and stones as a pathway to the house. Therefor I outlined the path with white shells as well as some crushed glass and a mixture of small pebbles to cover the empty spaces. In addition, I added two tall plants in the back of he pot- on with a tall stalk and maroon/red flowers and the other like tall stringy grass with purple flowers at the top. Then I added just a little bit of succulent ground cover. Furthermore, I joined some scattered shells and white droopy flowers that hang over the side of he pot. Overall I think that I did a wonderful job at making my very first fairy garden.
My favorite addition to the pot was some weird, colorful, stock like flower that is very common in Georgia, but I could not find the name for it.
That sounds beautiful
+Joe Eckroth thank you
+Jake Abney Sounds gorgeous!!! I wish I could see a picture of it!
This clearing looked sooo easy! I would live to use this method for my fire pit area... except it's not sod, only weeds 😢
You got me all EXCITED! very good point tho make; it's not an easy job, is a labor-of-love.Thx girl
Thank you that was very informative. Removed grass a couple months ago to plant a veggie garden. Now grass is back and need to remove it again
Great Video! I must apologize for taking 7 years to show my appreciation!
Hello Garden Answer,
Thank you for sharing your knowledge regarding how to remove the sods and planting andtake care the flowers.
Many blessings to you and your family my young friend from our HEAVEN FATHER.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022.
You have done an incredible job of moving all that grass :-) LOL! at you saying you look like a mess in your vids, you never look like a mess, you always look so stunning :-) thanks so much for sharing Laura and sending heaps of love and happiness from Ireland and have a fantastic Thursday XXXXX
+Desert Plants of Avalon Thank you!!! I always have dirt all over my clothes and occasionally on my face (which I don't see until we start editing...) haha! Oh well!
This video save me hundreds if not thousands of bucks. Many thanks 😊
DONT HIDE THE FIRE HYDRANT!🙄🤦♀️
Well obviously.
Ooh, that's how you do it in a civilized way! :))) I always just came out with my cultivator and tilled the dirt until all grass just fell off of it :)))) I will try your way now :) Thank you for sharing! ♥
Wow! You make it look so easy, I am going to try this tomorrow on my lawn to reduce 50 percent of it and turn off 2 sprinklers to reduce my water bill and also hope some gophers will leave the lawn. Thanks much!
Thanks for the vid. But my job would have taken much longer because I would have reclaimed the soil stuck to the bottom of the sod. My preferred method is to use the serrated edge of a narrow hand trowel and bang off the soil. Much time and labor, especially with clay soil, but I just hate throwing away perfectly good soil.
My Gertrude Jekyll did the same thing!😢 I planted 5 bare root DA roses about 6 weeks ago. Two are thriving, one is starting to break dormancy, one is struggling, and then there’s Gertrude-DEAD! So sad. Zone 9a. Vegas. Good news is all of the potted DA roses I purchased are looking amazing!!!
I have done this throughout my yard but I reused the sod. I turn it upside down, cover with some dirt to build berms in my flower gardens to give things dimension and height.
omg...we just did this too! we marked out a spot with spray paint then cut the grass on the outside of our marks but the roots were deep...like DEEP! hubby did that whole area because of my back, I can't. anyhow it's about the same size...gonna edge it then maybe brick 2 layers around it for a raised Tree and flower bed...I'll show you on FB! can't wait to see this finished Laura!! xo
+Jules Aviles Yay! I can't wait to see pictures!!!
Jules Aviles
will love to see end final result.
I don't know if you'll see this because it's been 7 years, BUT: If you accidentally cut an extension cord, you can actually salvage it by doing a clean cut and purchasing a new plug to splice in. I'd recommend looking up a video. You could alternatively make it into a quad box, essentially turning it into a multi (4 plug) extension cord.
Thanks, l need to remove a strip of 5 feet x 30 feet of grass to plant a row of arbivore north trees.....got 2 in, six to go. Ongoing project, learning a ton from watching you two on CZcams, thank you for sharing👍. Oh, l planted a hydrangea, a daisy may and a purple sh..... ALL P.W. plants from Home Depot this past Friday.....last year l planted a milkweed, 2 roses (one red, one white climbing), a ?, a ?, and a ?.....They are all protected by home made wire surrounds as the rabbits chewed them down to the quick last year. Have SO very much to learn, but when l was in Home Depot l recognized a LOT of the plants that you have planted in your gardens.
I rec'd 11 seedlings from a tree promoter and am going to plant them to see how they can get growing. Got a 10-10-10 fertilizer and use eggshells with fresh growing soil. Lots of fun, have been blessed by God to have a double property with a space to create🤗.
God bless Garden Answer. T.Y.
you made it look so easy to remove grass
she really did and now I feel like I could also tackle a project like this. Thanks Laura
I love how soft spoken you are in this video. And you always look great!
call 811(util lines), sharpened half moon edger and sharpened garden spade. Done! That's what does it for me with my bermuda tifway 419. :)
and yes lifting up sod is a pain in the ass. The "making squares" was the best method I found too. I've done tons of beds. I use little flags and marking paint to map them out and sometimes a hose. And really when doing it around cable boxes like that be very careful and call 811 if you have to. At our house they buried the cable line just under the sod. Had to be super careful not to slice it. Take that half moon edger and put an angle grinder to it to sharpen it. The it slices like butter. Use sharpened garden spade to lift up under squares. :)
Im starting my gardening business next years and de gressing will be a big feature
Omg you are a lifesaver!!! I’m building a fire pit in my backyard and I tried digging up without a strategy and it was the worse lol…thanks for the awesome tactic
Thank you. You made me feel so much better. Go girl! I will not hire but do it myself.
I can build thing, I can fix computers, I can write software, but I cannot garden! This was tremendously helpful, thank you!!
Not sure why I am watching this, as I live in an apartment building in Germany with only a balcony (a lovely one, not complaining ;)). But good to know! Love your videos. So looking forward to seeing the garden at your new place. :)
Incredibly motivating to watch this! I'll stop procrastinating about the small area we have on our hands! Thank you!
I saw many videos about the removal and weed ... but this one is great way
thank you
Always get inspired by you! looking forward to next video of putting plants in! I am going to develop an area like this this weekend. Really want to see how you do it!
Thanks, the simple things are truly a challenge. You just made my life easier
Thank you for this video. I'm in process in making a garden and I needed help in figuring how to start with it. but this is the start and I need to get rid of the grass for the garden. I making a garden bed and I need the place boards This helps me as well. Thank you.
Sure the small roots left won't start growing again ? Do you need to add new fresh earth on top then ?
I have the tool I just didn’t know how to use it . Great now I Know . Thank you ( Ontario Canada , outside Toronto ) Your the best .
When I'm not in a hurry, I place cardboard over the area and mulch on top of that. Smothers the grass and I didn't have to haul the sod away.
What does the cardboard do?
I just love you. You do everything with so much passion. I love all your videos. Thanks for sharing! I been wanting to remove some grass in my backyard and start a flower bed and this video help a lot. Thank you!
So, this is all hindsight, seven years later, but, I took out a 10 x 20 foot swath of lawn, with newspaper and cardboard. First, make a plan and decide what you want, and where. Did the holes, amend the soil, if necessary, and place the plants. Place cardboard to cover all exposed grass. I left some space around the plant for feeding in the future. Cover the cardboard with mulch, good soil, etc. No digging, and no weeds for the next year. Neat and clean. I started out with newspaper, but you need a lot of it, and wind can be a problem. You have to keep it wet as you go. Cardboard is more forgiving. And, either cardboard or newspaper is far, far better than landscape fabric, which I used only once and had to rip up two years later. Awful for plants and soil.
Thank you for this video. I have an area next to my 3 season porch that I want to plant some ornamental grass and didn't know how to remove the grass. Last time I did this I literally pulled the grass out by hand. Too old for that now. This will be much easier.
You are always beautiful, inside and out! Great job..I think I will tackle a spot in my yard now!
I love how you are never afraid to get dirty.
You have beautiful hair, I'm surprised you don't have it in a ponytail as hard as you're working.
This really helped me today. Thanks so much!
Great video, and you always have a beautiful smile!!
wow, I am impressed! You make it look so easy!
Meanwhile, the in-laws are in the house pointing, she’s out there talking to herself again!! 🤔 😁 Excellent video, plus like your energy. Thank you, feel much better about tackling a similar project. 👍🏻
Thankyou! You made my job easier
chica im so glad u did this video love a hard working girl. great job
I just looking to how to do it and your video help me a lot. Thank you so much🌹🙏
enjoyed your video..I ve been doing it the hard way..I used spray paint to make a shape
Loved this!❤Simple instructions yet very effective❤❤❤
Hello Laura, do you have updates on this video? :) Curious how the place looks like after your magical, artistic touch :)
3 years too late but I scrolled for what seemed like forever and this is the second part of it czcams.com/video/MTh_v8_MeDE/video.html - Mini makeover project // garden answers
You made that look sooo easy!
Good video. Clear, short and to the point. Thanks.
You just solved my problem! Thank you. Your videos are amazing and very knowledgeable.
I'm encouraged. Thank you for this video
Thanks! My sod was awful to “roll.” Connected to the earth by seemingly hundreds of roots. Just completely fell apart in my hands as I tried to roll it/pull it out, as the roots did not want to let go. What a mess.
Well since my 'lawn' is bermuda grass, it's heavy weed killer for me. I have tried everything to get rid of it, and it is horrible. This video is for small areas, city yards? with actual grass. But the problem is many people do not have that. The best way is to cover the entire area with heavy black plastic and wait like 2 or 3 months if you have a large area of invasive plants.
Thanks for putting out videos... like they say... don’t wait for being perfect at creating videos.. just do it...
What I’m wondering in digging up sod like this is if wet soil helps loosen the soil... not super muddy just wet...
Really good video. I have a grass job tomorrow.
I'm so confused... We live in the country and I don't think our grass just rolls up like that?
Love your videos!! When you remove the sod for landscaping, do you need to add dirt? I'd like to extend and reshape the line of our landscape in the front of our house to go down beside the driveway but wasn't sure if I could just plant right into the newly lowered ground after the grass removal or if I needed to add dirt so it matches the sidewalk height.
Thanks for the video! I am totally going to do this tomorrow to make way for a flower bed!
Genius. My son and I were STRUGGLING lol. Thank you!
enjoyed learning how to do this have an area I would like to remove the grass and fix up, tfs
Love your down to earth REALness and of course your experience sharing "warts and all " :) consider me a new subscriber.
This is what I’ve been doing and was hoping it was easier... well back to it
That is hard work - always goes better with a little help
You never look like a mess. haha Thanks for the video!
hi where you buy the tool?
Wow that was quick- great video
Oh god, I love this woman!
I’m def going to try this for my backyard
Absolutely Love All Your Videos😍They Are Teaching Me Sooooo Much🤗
U made it look so easy, great job!
I needed to watch this, thank you 🙏
You are the stinkin’ bomb. I’m always amazed at all you accomplish.