This is how I started my garden. This was winter off 2016/2017. It was long grass, and rabbit poop, covered in snow. I covered the snow with cardboard and then alfalfa hay. When it got closer to planting time, I added another layer of hay. After that, I only added grass clippings. I used hay instead of straw for 2 reasons. First, it has more nitrogen, second, Basil, that bunny there, likes hay, and will eat it and poop in it and eat any plants that grew out of it. When it came time to plant, I fenced it in, and when I dug the holes for planting, the grass was gone, and worm poop was everywhere. My tomatoes did very well, and again last year. Last year, I just added grass clippings whenever weeds tried to come up, worked great.
Now I'm moving, but it worked so well that I'll probably just do that again.
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