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diygabl:

7 STEPS TO CONVERT A LAWN TO A VEGETABLE GARDEN

As gardening becomes more and more popular, many people are beginning to ask themselves if the task of starting a garden bed is worth it. 

Converting a lawn into a garden does not have to be a hard task that employs tools like a sod cutter. Sheet mulching is a much more simple technique that involves layering cardboard, compost, and other organic material right over your grass. This kills your grass, leaving behind perfect beds with rich soil. It is a good idea to stockpile plenty of autumn leaves, composted manure, and garden waste before beginning. If you begin sheet-mulching your yard in the fall, it will be ready to plant the following spring.

Step 1
Use some kind of marking to create a perimeter of the new garden bed you are preparing. Scalp the grass within the perimeter with a lawn mower.

Step 2

Spread a 2 inch layer of compost or composted manure over the bed. This encourages microbial activity in the soil and speeds decomposition. Be sure to moisten the compost well.

Step 3

Place overlapping pieces of cardboard on top of the compost to smother the underlying vegetation and prevent light from reaching any weed seeds. Next, soak the cardboard with water.

Step 4

Spread a 2 inch layer of compost over the cardboard and top it with up to 18 inches of mixed organic material. You can use grass clippings, leaves, straw, seaweed, garden debris, or farmyard manure.

Step 5

If you have any vegetable, fruit scraps, and coffee grounds in the kitchen, include these organic materials in the layers of organic matter. Be sure to moisten each layer.

Step 6

If your goal is to create vegetable beds, finish with 2 to 3 inches if straw or compost. Top ornamental beds with 4 inches of wood chips. In arid climates, water the bed occasionally. Earthworms and soil microbes will work through the winter to decompose the organic material, cardboard, and sod.

Once everything has decomposed, your soil will be rich and ready to nourish new crops.

Step 7

Once your garden bed is ready, plant delicious crops and watch as your yard becomes so much more than just another lawn! Next, enjoy the fruits of your toil (literally!).

aphroditiful:

Cleaning and tidying is never a fun activity, but with the use of some domestic magick it can become an enchanting and Cleansing experience!

Here are some tips to make your next housework day magickal!

💧add some peppermint or lavender essential oil into your cleaning wash for peace and extra Cleansing

💧wipe down the walls and surfaces with moon water with added peppermint oil. Your space will smell amazing

💧put on some witchy music or music that corresponds with your intent you want in your space

💧burn some incense or oil in a diffuser to cleanse the air

💧 Sage your living areas

💧when you’re sweeping with a broom, imagine that you’re sweeping negative energy out!

💧put on clean bedding and spray your sheets with a sweet Sleep Mist (recipe is on my blog)

💧sweep your windowsills and place crystals that love the sun on them

💧clean your altar space and redo it

💧find vegetable cuttings and biodegradable leftovers you can mix into compost to nourish your plants

💧when cleaning the floor, pour your cleaning liquid in the shape of a sigil. Wipe and scrub to charge and fire!

💧 draw sigils on your dishes with dishwashing liquid before you wash them

💧wash old jam jars and recycle them to hold moon water or spells

💧visualize negativity leaving your space when you take out the trash

💧If you can put chalk on your floors, draw sigils or write messages under your carpets

💧create or renew any wards you have put up

💧Enchant your mirrors to show your inner beauty

Happy Cleaning!

🦋💧Aphroditiful💧🦋

tygermama:

agwitow:

just-shower-thoughts:

If a ghost can open cupboards and break things, why not just take a pencil, find paper, write exactly why it’s unhappy, and tape the message on the fridge.

It just became second nature to close all the cupboards first thing in the morning (even though they’d been closed the night before). Which was when things escalated from banging cupboard doors to actually breaking things.

Faucets, door handles, curtain rods ripped from the wall… all the repairs started to add up.

“Look, I didn’t mind having an ethereal roommate, but I can’t afford to keep fixing all this shit. Here’s a pencil and some paper. Just write what’s bothering you–I doubt you could put anything that would be more expensive than having a plumber come out to replace all the faucets again.”

The next morning there’s a scrawl line at the top of the page that devolved into an angry scribbling mess that tore through the page. Two cupboard doors were entirely ripped off.

“I don’t want to get someone in to banish you, but this is ridiculous. Just tell me what you want.”

The second piece of paper is ripped into shreds and several knives are embedded in the wall.

A careful examination of the paper scraps show that it had the same scribbles as the first piece.

A quick trip to the library and a stop at a store later, there are kindergarten workbooks on learning to write spread across the counter.

“Look, I don’t know if you’re just being difficult, but I hope not. So I got an audiobook on learning to read and write, and here are some workbooks for kids–don’t get mad–to teach them their letters. Just press play on the stereo, and work through the books at your own pace. I’ll get more when you finish.”

The first workbook is half-completed before being ripped to pieces, but at least there was no other damage. Replacing it is significantly cheaper than replacing cupboard doors.

It takes awhile, but eventually the workbooks progress to a fifth grade level. These ones are starting to be more costly (they’re bigger, for one thing), but it’s not even the money anymore. Little notes scrawled in a shaky hand appear on the steamy bathroom mirror

Have A gooD dy

Or written in ketchup on the counter (that was a frightening sight the first time)

You R out of MLK

And then one day there’s a message taped to the fridge. The spelling and penmanship isn’t the best, but it’s legible and even signed.

Dear Occupente,

I have haunted this spot for ovr three huner hudre 300 years. My bones are dust and I am fergotN. I do not have wants to trap me. I am here 4 ever.

I am bord. Lonly.

I am sorrY 4 breaking things.

We be frends?

Syncerly Eloise

I love you, Eloise