Quick and Easy Bag Gardening Ideas

By Barbara Pleasant
Updated on December 10, 2022
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Looking for some inexpensive large planter ideas? Here are a few easy bag gardening ideas to try out in your lawn this summer. You can get started on bag gardening in no time with this season-by-season, no-dig planting plan.

If your yard has at least a 20-by-28-foot space that gets full or almost full sun, you can grow enough vegetables to have fresh food all season with surprisingly little effort. Go ahead and dig beds if you’re lucky enough to have naturally fertile, well-drained soil, but don’t let soil flaws stop you from starting a food garden. Instead, use this quick and simple bag gardening technique. This method is almost too easy to believe, but it absolutely works! Gardening in bags of topsoil lets you get a garden going today, and offers these additional benefits:

  • In the course of a season, the topsoil bags will smother the grass underneath them, so you won’t have to dig up and remove the grass sod.
  • The bags eliminate aggravation from seedling-killing cutworms, which are caterpillars commonly found in soil where lawn grass has been growing.
  • Bag gardens have few (if any) weeds, because bagged soils and planting mixes are pasteurized to kill weed seeds.
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