Cardboard Mulching for more garden space in spring | The Homestead E38 S1

Today I start expanding my new garden space by lying down cardboard on the lawn, this will help starve the existing grass and plants from sunlight and cause them to go dormant. if this was left long enough it would breakdown into additional carbon in the soil. I also covered the cardboard with leaves as those will decompose as well. This is the beginning of a technique called lasagna gardening which is about layering materials to build raised beds, usually it starts with cardboard and then there are layers of any of these leaves, straw, compost, manure, and soil. I'm working with pretty limited supplies here in the first year of homesteading so I think it will be mostly cardboard and leaves. I hope to get some compost on it as well as that will speed up the process of decomposing.
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