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Gardenshowlady
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| | Posted on Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 06:00 pm EST : |   
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Here is a link that explains one of the easiest ways to make your soil ready to plant WITHOUT digging.
By laying down newspaper and then layers of oraganic stuff, your soil will be so fertile and the worms do the work!
http://www.lasagnagardening.com/heck.html
What do you think?
Carolyn SC Zone 8a
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Periwinkle
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 11:50 am EST : |
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Carolyn: I made my first lasagna bed last summer and started a long one, 4' x 25', along my kennel fence. It's so cool because you can put down all the ingredients and then plant right away, again without digging up the sod. I planted sunflowers, morning glories and broom corn in the little bed - planted immediately after making it.
The long "kennel bed" I started late last Fall and will add the other browns & greens (manure, compost, etc. this Spring. I will plant lots of vines to grow on the fence
I love lasagna gardening! Look at the natural products you're using-a great way to recycle newspapers. In fact, it was kind of funny--when I was preparing the lasagna bed along the kennel, I ran out of newspapers and had to use old seed and plant catalogs! hee hee
periwinkle No. Wisconsin z3b |
Wendy
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| | Posted on Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 01:45 pm EST : |
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THere's a book called Weedless Gardening that I read over the winter that promotes similar philosophy. It was very helpful on the details and provided a lot of background.
Wendy 
North Central Massachusetts - Zone 5A
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Carolyn
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| | Posted on Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 08:29 pm EST : |
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We've been doing this for years but didn't know the name. Lasagne Gardening, Cute.
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