This isn’t a photo from OUR garden.  We don’t have a lasagna garden.   But it’s so closely related to Raised Bed Gardening that you can’t help but run across it when you’re studying raised beds.
First of all, you aren’t growing lasagna.   The name comes from the layering of materials, just as you layer a nice [...]

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There are so many things to love about spring: the colors, the smells, the warmth of the sun…   But another thing Sherry and I love are the sounds.  We open our doors and windows and the house is awash in the sounds of ….. SEX.   What?  You think those birds are just singing because it’s [...]

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The gist of square foot gardening is this:  You build an open bottomed box and fill it with a good planting mixture of soil and compost.  Mark it off in one foot squares (see photo).     In each square foot section, plant one herb or vegetable – a different herb or vegetable in each square.  The smaller [...]

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 Well, Spring is on its way.  Only a couple of weeks until official Spring, but we have crocus in bloom and lots of shoots everywhere, so I guess it’s really coming.   We actually worked in the yard yesterday, for the first time in I don’t know how long.  And the forcast here is for temps to [...]

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