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"GarlandGrower" wrote in message
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Has anyone heard of this book or this method?? I wonder what your thoughts
are? As I get older, contemplating the massive amount of work that
gardens
require made me a little sad that I might not be able to always do
everything I wanted to do, so I bought this book.

I have seenthe book is all over the internet and mentioned in home &
gardening magazines. The method is sound, I used a derivitive on my gardens.
The recipe does not have to be followed with religious observation, most
combinations of organic rubbish will do. I built one garden with a
combination of grass clippings, spoilt hay with a topping of compost and
poop and a layer of earth over the top. You can either store the material up
until you make the garden and plant straight in or slowly add it in to the
garden as it comes to hand, let it settle and then plant, like I did. Grew
some nice potatos on it the first time around.

rob

Lasagna Gardening--yummy
 

Has anyone heard of this book or this method?? I wonder what your thoughts
are? As I get older, contemplating the massive amount of work that gardens
require made me a little sad that I might not be able to always do
everything I wanted to do, so I bought this book. It's a lazy man's garden
as far as ammending the soil, but the writer has used the method many times
with great success. I've only tried one application of this method for an
Asparagus patch, but it worked well enough, the soil under the Asparagus is
awesome and they grow well. Unfortunately I will have to move them from
their East TX patch back here to Garland since my Dad can not keep up with
them. He did not go out and pick the spears every day this Spring and they
are all growing into new plants. Geez, what's so hard about going out every
morning and picking a few spears.....Sigh

Rita
Garland, TX 7b-8a

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"GarlandGrower" wrote in message

Has anyone heard of this book or this method?? I wonder what your thoughts
are?

Try doing a google search on "no dig" gardening, "sheet composting", "Ruth
Stout" or "Esther Dean".

The term "Lasagna gardening" is just a new term for decades old ideas and
seems to be seems to be unique to the US as far as I can make out. The idea
of no dig gardening/no till/sheet composting has been around for at least
3-4 decades that I can make out and is well known in such systems as organic
gardening and permaculture gardening.

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"GarlandGrower" wrote in news:_DcXh.71779
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Geez, what's so hard about going out every
morning and picking a few spears.....Sigh

You'll find out as you get older...

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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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Has anyone heard of this book or this method?? I wonder what your
thoughts
are? As I get older, contemplating the massive amount of work that
gardens
require made me a little sad that I might not be able to always do
everything I wanted to do, so I bought this book. It's a lazy man's
garden
as far as ammending the soil,

No, it's not lazy :-). I've used a variant for many years, (my emtire
current garden was made that way) and can assure you that the energey
saved by not digging, is still required to fetch and spread the vast
amount of material required to first make the beds and then keep topping
them up.

Wow, that's quite an endeavor.....I imagine I will not be doing it on such a
large scale. I know the lugging and spreading is hard work, but I think the
main point of the lady's book is to make things a little easier....and that
is what I was hoping for....
By cardcartons I assume you mean cardboard boxes? I was going to use old
newspaper from the recycling place for the first layer to keep back the
grass, but if I can use cardboard boxes, that will save lugging all the
newspaper...
Thanks

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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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Has anyone heard of this book or this method??

Thanks Janet and to all for you responses... I will be getting started this
weekend getting at least half if not all of this plot marked off and kill
the grass and weeds and start piling the stuff on... make walkways around
and through the garden...move a bunch of cannas and daylilies to my "old"
vegetable garden which was only 3x10 and making that longer...then I have to
work on growing the grass and killing the weeds in the front half of the
backyard...so I'm sure all will excuse me for not doing a veggie garden this
year as I have way too much to do to get ready for a great garden next year.