When I was a child, I spent a lot of time sitting behind our garage, because just over the back fence was Frank Atwell’s most amazing garden.  It filled his whole back yard and inspired garden lust in me the rest of my life.  Fast forward to 2013, and I now have my own back yard garden.  Yes, I live in a rental, but the landlord said as long as we take the fence down when I leave, I could have free reign over the lawn!  The summer of 2012, I participated in a community garden on Maple Street.  There, I was introduced to John Jeavons’ Grow biointensive gardening and I wanted to continue to experiment with this.  Over the next few days, I’ll show you how I turned a 20 X 20 foot piece of lawn into a little piece of paradise with just my spade, some newspaper and straw.