I decided to smother the grasses in one of my raised beds. It is the bed I left fallow last year and filled with coop cleanings as well as other compostables. I fear the weeds grew up through the bottom and there is a VERY healthy growth of grass.
Daughter-in-law recently went into the tattoo business with a friend instead of working for others shops. One of the things they had done was the removal of all the carpeting in all 7-8 rooms. Score one big one for me, I had son bring all the cut up carpeting home.
Before covering the bed, I removed some of the nearly composted material in places where the grass wasn't growing. I had this great idea to use the material . . . later.
I used two pieces, (they were cut just over 4 feet and I needed 5 feet wide) to cover the bed and held the carpeting down with treated lumber 25 years removed from a prior veggie garden once I learned of the leaching dangers.
It will make mowing a bit more difficult, but I am happy with the results. Anyone know how long I need to leave the carpeting before the area is smothered and the grass is dead? My grasses seem to be an insidiously sturdy variety.
The nearly composted material I planned to put into one of the other beds. First I dug a hole as deep as the shovel would go. Then I tossed a bit of the material into the hole and filled the top six inches with garden soil. The idea was to get the composting material well below normal root systems, feed the adventurous roots that reached the material, and hold more moisture in the bed.
While I still like my idea, Spouse wanted to 'help'. He wouldn't dig the holds deep enough so there are places where the material is barely covered by soil, and he wouldn't follow my pattern so I have no idea where the material ended up and where I still need to dig it in. Sigh! Not worth a quarrel, but it wasn't being done the way I wanted. So when I said he could continue and do it his way he threw the shovel and left the garden.
It seems I can't work in the garden because he needs me watching him do something else or I can't work in the garden because he wants to do the work for me, but not the way I want it done, or he wants to go somewhere, anywhere, other then work in the yard.
The oldest compost bed is delicious looking! I needed to empty the wheelbarrow so I can get some of that beautiful, rich compost for the rest of the garden.
. I'll be good to go tomorrow, that Veterinarian strength Absorbine is great stuff, kind of stinks you up for a bit but it works wonders for me 
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