Specialty Gardening: New 'Lasagne Bed' Update from Fall, 0 by tabasco

tabasco wrote:
Hi, Everybody--

I haven't had a chance to post much on the new Cottage Garden forum, but I've enjoyed all the pics and thread discussion. (It looks like the flower garden discussion has moved from Perennials over here!)

anyway....I wanted to post a pic of my new (as of last fall) Lasagne (Layered) Bed that we created and planted out of newspapers, hay, leaves, and compost in September/October of last year. Here's the old thread: http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/649906/

The original idea was to expand our 'Butterfly Garden' border about 25 feet for more Asclepias and butterfly attractors, but our garden has turned into more of a 'Cottage Garden' as I experiment with seed sowing, dividing and shopping the plant sales...LOL

To my surprise, most of the divisions we planted last fall have come back just fine--hemerocallis, caryopteris, leucantheum, salvias, asclepias, rudbeckia, parsley, liatris, lantanas (over-wintered in the garage), echinops, and we have had verbena bonarienses self-seed (some gardeners would be in angst over this but I love VB.)

And also to my surprise, we haven't had many weeds come up. Some of the Lasagne Bed directions say to just plant annuals the first year because of weeds but we had no trouble.

So, I just wanted to share my bit of L-B experience in case others are running out of room in the garden. I will do it again, no doubt about that.

This photo was taken a week ago...