Margaret wrote: > Welcome, Cheryl. I'm interested in more details of your experience with > newspaper and compost to make an > untilled garden bed. How many sheets of newspaper did you use? What was > the problem with using only 6" of compost? Add a welcome from me, too. Would also like to know about about this method of starting a new bed. I'm wondering if it would work to kill off the last remains of ivy that I've been hand digging all summer in a new area back in the woods that I want to plant next Spring. Catharine Atlanta, zone 7b