Beginner Gardening: Before and after Garden pics....., 0 by beardtongue

beardtongue wrote:
I put in a large lasagna bed in my back yard last fall. It is about 225 long and runs 8 to 10 feet wide on average. I made a beginner mistake, as you will see below, by mounding all the materials around my mature oak trees. I was told my DG members that this could smother the roots. So after this picture was taken, I had the unfortunate task of raking most ofl the soil back away from the trees. I wanted to keep the level uniform but allow air to the roots so I piled wood mulch this spring deeper around the trees and planted things in sunken pots around the bases of the trees.

Anyway, here is how it looked at the beginning.