Lasagna Gardening
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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 lasagna. Peat moss, grass clippings, wet newspaper, compost, leaves. After that, it’s a lot like raised bed gardening. You can even do a version of square foot gardening. And there’s not supposed to be any digging, once you get the bed going. Just a heap of layers on top of the ground growing your lovely vegetables.
Here are a few sites to help you get started. Mother Earth News, Organic Gardening, Lasagna Gardening and Oprah. And a couple of videos: YouTube #1, and YouTube #2.
Filed under: Soil Amendment, Uncategorized, Vegetable, container gardening
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Lasagna gardening is one of the easiest ways to get a raised bed or island bed going in my opinion!
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