More Front Yard to Garden Conversion

The yard-to-garden conversion is moving along nicely. The next step was deciding exactly how much of the lawn was going to disappear. I wanted the garden to have a curved edge, instead of just running a line straight across the lawn. So I dug way back into the dusty depths of my brain and remembered some geometry work from 10th grade. Mrs. Campbell would be proud.

First, I enlisted the Noble Assistant to help measure the distance across the lawn. This would be the base of my equilateral-lawn-triangle-compass-creation.

Then I determined where the apex of the triangle would be and jammed a screwdriver into the ground. I tied a string to the screwdriver and the other end to a can of spray paint (confusing the heck out of my friend who was taking the pictures). Then I pulled the string taut and sprayed a smooth arc with the paint.

That wasn't enough lawn removal for my taste, though. So I repeated the exercise with red paint. The less lawn, the better, right?

It's a little hard to see here, but next spring the lawn will be gone up to the red line. More sheet mulching to come!