[q]In an effort to fight our own clay and bind weed, we went in search of an inexpensive way of building raised beds. What we found instead at a local nursery was a new way of thinking. Instead of amending and tilling the clay soil to death, we were introduced to “lasagna gardening”. the idea […]
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What is Lasagna Gardening?
Lasagna gardening is a semi-elaborate (but by no means difficult) adaptation of old-fashioned sheet composting for which the gardener puts down a weed barrier (cardboard or sheets of wetted newsprint) directly on top of a new garden site. At it’s simplest, this process mimics nature, where topsoil is created by the annual accumulation and breakdown […]