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Farm Your Yard: Building New Garden Beds

KBIA | By Trevor Harris

Published March 19, 2015 at 12:24 PM CDT

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If you are going to create a new garden bed you may have to kill some grass.

Carrie Hargrove / CCUA

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Adding organic matter ensures that plants thrive in your newly planted beds.

Carrie Hargrove / CCUA

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When you know where you'll be making a new garden bed, you will want to mow the grass before trying to remove it.

Carrie Hargrove / CCUA

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The final step in making a new bed is adding mulch and plants.

Carrie Hargrove / CCUA

As warmer temperatures set in and the days grow longer, Carrie Hargrove is thinking about building new beds. What's the process? Find out on this week's Farm Your Yard.

Carrie Hargrove is the host of Farm Your Yard. In this episode we get our hands dirty killing grass and adding organic matter.

The occasional series Farm Your Yard is heard Tuesday's at 6:30 p.m. on 91.3FM KBIA during Thinking Out Loud.