Fatalities!

When ripping out a lawn, there are a few deaths along the way. RIP: bitter (seemingly poisonous) lettuce, decoy collards, tomatoes, kale, and tiny chard. You were missed but your death was not in vain.

Good riddance to the following: bastard bermuda grass, milkweed, and other assorted and sundry lawn invaders.

First Things Second.

So, in the spirit of being a novice, we decided to jump in head first and just grow some greens. We dug up some deep rooted grass, burmed up a few rows and started planting, no rhyme or reason. The kale was the big winner, followed by the tomatoes that later arrived. The lettuce was hysterically bitter (seriously, unbelievably bitter) and bled some kind of white goo that seemed a little suspicious. The Collards became sacrificial decoy plants and attracted the predators. This worked pretty well till we realized that we had to thin out the plants and ultimately should remove the entire lawn...