Hello everyone welcome back to the epic gardening podcast it's Kevin here and I hope you were having an amazing day

Whether you're in the garden right now or you're doing something completely different so today we're talking about a question from Dawn.

So she says, love your podcast.

Thank you so much Dawn.

I want to tear out a small front yard and plant a wildflower garden for pollinators.

First of all, I think that's an amazing idea, Dawn.

I live in Missouri zone six.

I will have to tear out my lawn, weeds that I mow, basically, she says, and start from scratch.

I need suggestions on when to start and how to start.

So this is a fantastic question and I love the initiative of taking a lawn and turning it into a garden bed, whether that be for

vegetables or flowers.

And so what we're going to talk about is the ways that you might go ahead and do this,

regardless of what you want to put into that bed in the future.

So the first thing you have to do of course is get rid of the grass.

There are a lot of different ways that you can do that and so here is the first one the first one is simply to

Dig it out you should use a spade or a fork and you can just remove the sod and it's going to take quite a bit of time, it's going to take quite a bit of effort, and honestly it will be a bit of a chore, but that's okay because sometimes you want to go to the garden and get ourselves a little workout maybe avoid the gym for the day

So here's what you'll want to do you'll want to water the area a few days ahead of time to make sure that it's not really caked and dry makes it really easy to work

makes it really easy to just chop through that sod with whatever you're using to

dig and then when you cut the out, I would personally cut it into one foot wide strip.

So you can use an edger or a sharp spade, something like that, to cut it into those strips and then you can just slide your

spade down that line and cut it all out and then you can roll it up and it's kind of

how sod sometimes comes delivered to you in the first place and you just

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