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Lasagna Gardening--yummy
"GarlandGrower" wrote in message ... 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 |
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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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Lasagna Gardening--yummy
"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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Lasagna Gardening--yummy
"GarlandGrower" wrote in news:_DcXh.71779
: 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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Lasagna Gardening--yummy
"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message from "GarlandGrower" contains these words: 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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Lasagna Gardening--yummy
"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message from "GarlandGrower" contains these words: "Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message from "GarlandGrower" contains these words: 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. |
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