Lasagna Layer Gardening
March 27, 2010 by admin
Filed under Gardening Videos
This is our family’s gardening project, from which we hope to begin a market garden. We are showing you how we place together one of our planting beds using mostly found/salvaged materials. This is both affordable and environmentally friendly, since reusing waste uses less energy than recycling it, and certainly beats having it go to the landfill. This is also a great way to begin a biointensive or organic garden.
Sorry I didn’t post how it went. My camera broke in the spring, and I’ve yet to replace it. Here’s how it went. That section of garden did okay, not great. I used the same materials and technique on a garden in the front yard that got more sun, and it went really well. LOTS of tomatoes- completely toppled my supports. Currently I have cereal rye planted in that section as a cover crop, so we’ll see how that goes.
After you build the bed, do you just plant the plants in the bed you just built or do you need to dig down to the ground?
You are a lovely family , i am not sure about the technical merits of “Lasagna” but be that as it may i aplaud you for trying to do it cheap! So many gardening vids especially American ones show people buying huge amounts of new materials that cost more than all the veg they will grow inthe next twenty years . My raised beds are built from scrap timber , old roof tiles ,and metal shelves . It looks awful , but it was free. My friend gives me free horse manure , tools come from car boot sales
Please, don´t forget to show us what grows out of it.
Thank you & great idea.
Beautiful! That is great you have your kids helping, what an educational experience for them, not to mention, they will never forget it…
Great job Mama!
hay amanda – Awesome garden ! Cannot wait until I see what grows out of it !! Thanks for the good info..-shannon
very nicely demonstrated…i luv that you got the kids involved….i hope to see how your gardening comes along