Killing Grass With Plastic Sheeting - Final Results

It's finally spring and the weather is acting like it. I decided to kill grass in my front lawn last summer, for a spring 2011 planting.

You can read about starting the process by laying the plastic Here.

You can read about removing plastic Here.

You can read about fall mulching and calling it "done" Here.

I would expect this to be the final post about the process. It's done and ready to plant.

Here is the planting bed today...mid April 2011.

You can see it worked. There are a few strips of grass growth at a few edges, but it's minimal. I shot those strips with Round-Up right before I took this picture, and cleaned the trench at the lawn edge.

I haven't done anything to the bed otherwise.

I've pulled the leaf much back in places and the grass I killed (which was left in-place) is mostly decomposed into the soil and barely noticeable.

Ready for planting!!!!