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my front garden has never had any real love as far as I can tell, the grass is tufty and horribly coarse. I want to dig some beds and kind of sculpt the whole place but the grass roots seem to go along the top of the soil with a few going very deep into the ground. Is it feasible to use a layer of carpet, topped with a large layer of topsil and compos and then grow plants in a sort of raised bed that way? I'd use natural fibre carpet rather than the plastic stuff 'cos then surely it'd rot down as the years go on???

Hi mrs f
it should be ok i used the same system on my garden with great results
as long as you starve the tufts of grass long enough and deep enough from light they will die.
good luck

Russ

Hi
Echo last post but cardboard might be better than carpet - unless it's pure wool and hessian-backed. Otherwise it may never rot!!!
Maggie

I've put carpet down under one of my raised beds. It was a wool mix so not 100% and it seems to have rotted down now but took about 3 years. It certainly did the trick with the grass underneath though as no evidence of it now.

Zoe

I have kind of decided not to do anything more with the front except mow it. our landlord is being a total sh** and I don't expect to be in this house past october. sad cos it's a huge house for the money, but it's cheap 'cos it's a mould infested rat hole.