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Bake A Delicious Lasagna Garden

By: Annie Deakin

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One of the easiest ways to start a new vegetable garden is by lasagna gardening. This method requires no plowing or digging and will provide a rich garden soil even in areas not normally know for rich soil. It will require less water than most gardens and will provide you with fresh produce.

Lasagna gardening is also known as sheet composting. It is an environmentally friendly way to grow your own vegetables and requires absolutely no digging of hard soils. JUst keep adding the waste from your yard and kitchen to compost in place and make the new garden.

Do not worry about the existing weeds or sod, just start the layers over them. The first layer is newspaper or cardboard. Once the paper layer is in place wet it down to hold it there. For newspaper plan to use at least three layers of paper, cardboard will work with one. Those weeds and grass below the paper will break down and become part of the compost. They will provide a warm moist environment that will be sure to attract earth worms that will enrich the soil and do the plowing for you.

Anything that normally would go into a compost pile can go into your lasagna garden. These include such things as tea leaves and coffee grounds, grass clippings and leaves, garden trimmings, manure, shredded newspaper, peat moss or even seaweed. These will decompose into a very rick compost that will keep your garden growing all summer long. Do not add weeds that have gone to seed, although other weeds are just fine.

The ratio of brown to green materials is two to one and the materials should be layered. Alternate the layers until you have a pile about two feet tall. Just like a lasagna in the oven, this pile will also shrink.

One of the best times to start a lasagna garden is in the fall. Materials needed for compost are abundant and winter storms serve to keep the compost moist, which is necessary for proper processing.

When the garden is ready to plant, dig down into the bed. Newspaper will be easily cut with the shovel, but cardboard may require that you take the extra effort to cut through it. Take care of this garden like any other. Water as needed and if weeds do appear, be sure that you remove them.

You can still add layers even as your garden is growing. Just do not cover the new plants and use the layers as mulch.

With this lasagna garden, there should not be many weeds. It should also not take much water to grow. You may not even require any fertilizer as this will be a very nutrient rich soil.

Lasagna gardening is an easy way to establish a new garden. As you continue to add layers each year, the soil only becomes better and your garden next year will provide even more produce than it did this year. Once you have established one lasagna garden, you may decide to expand by adding other gardens.

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Annie is an expert furniture and interior design writer. Her current area of specialism is home office, nursery furniture and wooden garden furniture

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