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Reply to "Total gardening newbie: walk me through replacing grass on slope with ground cover (phlox)?"
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[quote=Anonymous]We're planning to do something similar! However, I'm a bit adverse to digging up the grass by hand, which will be difficult to do on our slope. Also if you have a gap between when you dig it up, plant the groundcover and mulch, the hill can be very susceptible to erosion during rain events. I've used this method to kill grass before and plan to do so this time: cover with several sheets of newspaper, followed by some compost and most importantly, a thick layer of mulch on top. Leaf mulch works great for this, and some counties/cities will give it away for free (from the fall leaf collection). Then when you're ready to plant, you can just plant right through the layers. The one drawback is that it does take a bit of time to kill the grass so you'd probably want to let it sit for a couple weeks before planting. Good luck and please do report back after you've talked to the MGs![/quote]
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