Sheet mulch or just mulch? SE Idaho 6a
I haven’t quite lived here a year, but my goal is to remove the lawn & plant native. I’ve done the sheet mulch technique for a veggie garden in the back, and this is my recent sheet mulch section for the front. This is cardboard, compost, and mulch. However, our soil isn’t too bad in the front- just dry and a bit compact due to the lawn. Planted a tree a month ago in the soil and it’s doing well.
Can I get away with a thick 6” mulch over the summer instead of sheet mulch just to get rid of lawn? The whole, ripping tape, glue, and stickers off all my boxes and buying compost is such a process. I was hoping to sow seeds in fall for spring. I don’t know what kind of grass we have, but in the garden beds it’s not hard to manage. Willing to put in the effort, just didn’t know if I was doing more than necessary