Lasagna Gardening

Lasagna gardening is a new concept for me. I assume it means layers. I would be appreciative of some more information on the subject.

Here is a thread that might help.
http://davesgarden.com/t/377826/Lasagna+gardening+

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Thank y'all for the good information. I went to some of the hyperlinks and printed them out to read. I am looking forward to less work. My back is rejoicing.

Fred

Birdsall, I checked the book out of the library and built a lasagna garden 5 x 3. It was more expensive then I assumed because of the price of peat moss and unlike the author of the book, none of my layers were "free". Oh I also did a 5 foot strip on the edge of my lawn where I intend to plant a climbing rose and low fence. I used card board on the bottom and now with some crabgrass peeking up in spots I now know that you should really overlap your pieces of cardboard to block out any little crevice where grass may find an opening. I will do another corner of my yard with that method maybe in the fall. Sure beats tilling the lawn etc.

I used my own variation of this method in a new raised bed early last year. I sprayed the existing grass with Round-up then covered it with about 15-16 pages of newpaper and started layering with soil, dried leaves, Black Kow composted cow manure, and a bit of chipped wood mulch. The grass has never come up through the bed and it's much easier to work since it's raised. Also, I had never used Black Kow before and was truly amazed at what it did for my plants. They were downright monstrous!

Now with all this information I am formulating my method of using lasagna gardening. I think I will begin by filling out an area for my pachysandra patch.

I have also begun a layered compost pile with layers of:

Soil
Peat moss
Cow manure
Peat moss
Rotten leaves
Pet moss
Soil

I just remembered that I have a sack of malorginite. Would that be good to add to the compost?

This mixture will be ready to cover the newspapers on my first project.

It's raining out right now, so I am here with Mitski on my arm and catching up on a few things.

This message was edited Thursday, Aug 7th 3:26 PM

Birdsall, I am quite leery of milorganite, as it is human manure. I can see the potential for hazard if it was not 'cooked' enough to kill all bacterial and other organisms.

My goodness; I did not know that. I will check to see what it says on the bag which is 3 years old and half used. Thanks.

Darius, Is that the stuff from municipal treatment plants?

Yes, anastatia, it is.