Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding!

Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding!
This intriguingly titled book?which has nothing to do with pasta and everything to do with layering?serves up a time-saving approach to gardening that will come as welcome news to the overworked and the horticulturally challenged. Lanza exhorts readers to build soil up, "instead of digging down," by simply layering organic materials onto a prospective garden site and close-planting directly into it. Together with generous mulching, she contends, this process eliminates some of gardening's more labor-intensive chores?tilling, double-digging, weeding and frequent watering. After outlining her basic premise, Lanza zeroes in on the specific areas of interest, including vegetables, herbs, berries and flowers, providing an abundance of detail on a wide selection of planting materials. Although this method of creating instant raised beds is not new, Lanza has refined it into a step-by-step procedure that she conveys with simplicity and clarity, and her chatty, first-person narrative makes the text a pleasure to read. Of particular interest to fledgling gardeners, this title will also appeal to those looking for new ways to streamline the demands of their favorite pastime.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding! Reviews

I think when it comes to books presenting new ways to do something, only evidence that the most important thing is what the results of direct experience. Yes, I am here to say that for many years that lasagna gardening is my personal experience, this book shows one of the wisest investments any gardener can do. Let me tell you garden in 2003.
First, cover a short summary of the lasagna gardening technique: B & W bath of pure water, and then the pieces of a single layer directly over the area which was previously marked turf. The shutdown of the weeds and grass. Then put a layer of peat four inches is so wet and damp, the layer of chopped green organic matter, and then another layer of peat, moist layer of compost or garden waste back in peat / organic model of the sheets at least 18 inches. Together with the compost, and then directly to leave in a few months, less plants or seeds and seedlings into the uterus to establish with one hand and take classes. As costs to a level, worms eat the grass, and from the press, mixing layers together for you. The end result is organic, prosperous and free from diseases and weed seeds. It is very simple.

Note: The author forgot to mention that it is important to wet each layer as you build beds. Remember that, because before I have the necessary equipment to operate the compost moist knew.

In late autumn 2002, I built a 5 foot perennial border 25 m from Lasagne to sleep, if you read the book by Patricia Lanza. It seemed too good to be true - no digging, no editing is not a wedding? What was the catch, I asked myself. When I am ready for a four-inch pots, perennials, water, and went to take account of the winter rains (this may be Cal, hee). They settled in well and will continue to grow, but it is good news for the roots are no longer part of the increase in this period. A few months later appeared in the top growth has encouraged me, more lasagna beds in my garden - Two fifth May raised beds that I have two other traditionally grown in raised beds (there were a lot of work, double digging, rock screens, a mixture of compost, etc.I knew I would now like lasagna method a few years ago!) . About two hours to work on your own bed strewn with new objects, and even compost. At the end of May and begin changing the pepper Basil lasagna beds, and growing melons and other flowers.

These two single beds traditional lasagna, yes. This summer, I collected the history of the peppers. This was my first attempt to grow melons, so I do not have a comparison of the previous crop, but they are good and took a couple of delicious melons, sweet sun. At the same time the flowers appear in my country always love in bed, which has assumed enormous proportions, the empty space is filled long before the end of the period. As promised, it was a bit less water and weeding. As a bonus, not fertilized because the soil so rich is the decomposition of organic material. What's more, the disease is not contagious through them! It was a professional gardener's paradise.

Author Patricia Lanza uses several examples of garden to describe the effectiveness of the technique. It describes the range of traditional excavation of garden plants and double the lasagna, which wait for the benefits and the growing need for compost-side down, and this can be done at once. This is an alphabetical list of forms and annual seed lasagna beds, plenty of advice on how to maximize space and innovative methods to grow vertically, if necessary. It is also flower beds and shrubs, grouped by the needs of irrigation and solar energy planned.

Do not be afraid "to break tradition" - it will save you not only garden tool budget, but on his return. And if the promise of all fruits, vegetables and flowers, less work and more fun is not enough for you, it's really rototiller love!
Aka-Andrea, Merribelle.