Lasagna Gardening

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Lasagna Gardening

lasagna gardening for vegetable gardening, is a no dig way of organic gardening that gives you rich fluffy soil with very little work for you. Its a means of building layers of organic materials that will break down into rich soil.

Lasagna gardening is a no dig, no till, organic gardening method that gives you rich, fluffy soil with little effort from you.

Lasagna gardening has nothing with what you will grow In this garden. It means the method of how you build your garden which is adding layers of organic materials that will break down over time giving you a rich, fluffy soil that will feed your plants. This is known as sheet composting. Lasagna gardening is good for the environment because you are using your yard and kitchen scraps and composting in place to make your garden.

One of the best things about lasagna gardening is the ease of it. you don't need to dig or remove any soil, your first layer will consist of brown cardboard or layers of news paper. This will be right on top of the soil or grass where you plan to put your garden. You will need to wet down this first layer to keep it in place and start

it breaking down. The grass or weeds you placed the cardboard or paper over will break down quickly because they are smothered, as will the materials you placed over on top of them. This layer will provide a dark moist area which will attract earth worms that will loosen the soil as they tunnel throw.

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Your ingredients for a lasagna garden are, grass clippings, leaves, fruit and vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, egg shells, teabags, shredded newspapers, peat moss and manure. Just as with Italian lasagna there are steps to building your lasagna garden, as with composting you want to layer browns, newspapers, peat moss, greens, and your kitchen waste. Brown layers should be twice the depth of green. You don't have to be to fussy about this your lasagna garden will result. What you want in the end is about two foot layer bed . You will be amazed at how this will go down over a few short weeks.  The best time of the year to start your lasagna garden, is the fall because you have lots of leaves and yard waste from cleaning up. You can let this sit and break down over winter. By the time spring comes it will be ready for planting with little effort.

Fall rain and winter snow will keep things wet in your lasagna garden and help break it down. When it is time to plant, just dig your bed as you would any other garden.

 If you used paper as the first layer the shovel should go right throw, if you used brown cardboard you may have to cut holes in each planting spot.

To maintain your lasagna garden add mulch to the top of straw, bark, or chopped leaves. Once going you will do the same to your lasagna garden as with any other garden, weed and water and replant after harvest.