Lasagna Gardening - Layered Gardening New View points
Lasagna or layered gardening is a new name for an old method. Not everyone knows
about this old method of course, but it’s the easiest and most natural way of
gardening there is. The traditional way of gardening takes a lot of work as you
toil to dig out every weed, water your plants every day, spray them to get rid
of pests, fertilize with non-organic fertilizer that causes lush but weak growth
that attracts more pests - so you have to spray more…get the picture? Most of us
have been down that track at some time or other. Sometimes we just give up
through sheer exhaustion.
So with lasagna gardening you do layers of stuff to
control weeds.
Don’t even dig, but place layers of newspaper down to inhibit weed growth. It
dies underneath creating good fertilizer. Layer manure over the newspaper - some
people use sand, peat moss, or mulch of other types such as grass clippings or
leaves. Plant out your
flowers or vegetables in small lots, but close together so that they will
crowd out any more weeds that grow.
Use cardboard over your paths to keep the weeds down, add more newspaper, dead
grass or lawn clippings around your plants to keep in the moisture and the weeds
out. You’ll find a bountiful harvest of vegetables and your flowers will be very
healthy.
When planting a garden for the first time, simply lay down thick layers of
newspaper covered with mulch of dead or even green grass or leaves, hay or straw
and then a layer of manure over the top. The worms will eat their way up through
the first two to get their favorite munchies, the manure. In the process they
will turn it all into the richest mulch you’ve ever seen. Make sure the grass
you lay down has no weed or grass seeds in it.
After some weeks, you can scratch down to the newspaper layer - what’s left of
it - and plant your seeds. If you do this in the winter, your new garden will be
ready to plant come spring. You won’t need to dig or prepare soil in the
traditional way. There will be few weeds and the soil will be so fertile that no
other fertilizer is necessary. Now this is how gardening is meant to be!
When making paths through the garden, lay down thick cardboard from unwanted
cartons and cover it with bark chips or pebbles to stop it blowing away.
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