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Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding!
A gardening system that works-- so you don't have to!
Turn in your tiller for a stack of old newspapers! Replace your shovel with a layer of grass clippings! Let Pat Lanza show you how you can create lush, successful, easy-care gardens in practically any location without hours of backbreaking digging or noisy tilling.
* Practical, first-person advice from an experienced...more
Paperback, 244 pages
Published
November 15th 1998
by Rodale Books
(first published 1998)
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I am forever grateful to Patricia Lanza for cutting my gardening time in half. By using her layering technique for all my container veggies, flowers, fruits and herbs...
I spend less time worrying about my plants and more time enjoying them. Basically, her method is simple: first a layer of wet newspaper, a layer of peat moss, then organic potting soil, then compost, then peat moss, then soil, then compost and so on. Then you pull layers aside and place in your plants. Cover with com...more
I spend less time worrying about my plants and more time enjoying them. Basically, her method is simple: first a layer of wet newspaper, a layer of peat moss, then organic potting soil, then compost, then peat moss, then soil, then compost and so on. Then you pull layers aside and place in your plants. Cover with com...more
Okay, first you must know that I'm not a gardener. I heard about lasagna gardening, aka permaculture, aka sheet composting when I was looking into ways to save money. My husband always tilled a garden then he was the one to tend it because I don't like being eaten by bugs or itching from prickly plants. I decided I was going to give this a try.
Now I have no idea what to do with all the veggies!!! I planted 3 squash plants and have pulled over 300 squash from them. I have never ...more
Now I have no idea what to do with all the veggies!!! I planted 3 squash plants and have pulled over 300 squash from them. I have never ...more
This was such a great book for a beginer such as myself, I loved the way the instructions were so easy and even though I'm not a gardener I understood everything. I like the way it makes gardening easy for someone who does not want to use commercial fertilizers or poison for weeds and such. We have had a very hard time growing things in the Georgia clay and this book helps by giving us ideas to utilize the space better and to make the quality of our soil more conducive to plants. I also love the...more
I learned some great concepts from this book yeaaaars ago, and I still hear people getting excited about the topic for the first time. I was just at a gardening symposium this winter where someone was describing the method, and talking about how hard it is to get this book right now because there's a new push to educate people about lasagna gardening.
I just used this technique again this past fall, in creating new raised beds that I plan to use this spring. Right now the beds are fro...more
I just used this technique again this past fall, in creating new raised beds that I plan to use this spring. Right now the beds are fro...more
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This has been one of my all time favorite gardening books. This is truly the lazy gardener's way to freedom from endless digging and weed pulling in the garden. I was a skeptic but started my first lasagna garden a few years ago. I layered my wet newspaper right on top of the weeds (I did mow them first;) and then layered whatever I had: leaves, pine needles, kitchen scraps, and then added a bag of compost and potting soil on top so I could plant right away. I couldn't believe how awesome my...more
We are going to do part of our garden this year loosely based on the method in this book. I am excited to see how it works out. We are going to create the layers in a raised bed, layering newspaper over the existing sod. I want to break at least some of the beds into square foot increments and plant them as described in the square foot gardening book. So excited for the garden this year!
Written from a northerner's perspective about when to plant and what to plant, but great advice for anyone looking for easy healthy gardening. I'm trying to start a community garden at out apartment complex, and I remembered reading this years ago. Thought I'd turn to it again as a resource, and it's refreshing my memory about a great many things. Basically a method of gardening in a sheet compost bed. Great idea, simple to execute.
I am still looking for a copy of this book... I read it after it was published at the authors daughter's restaurant, in between working. Their garden was beautiful. I was too young at the time to have a garden that was my own, but I remember this was one of my first introductions to a method of gardening I had't been exposed to.
This is such a great gardening book. Perfect for beginners or anyone wanting an easy method to get started with a super garden! I read this many years ago and pulled it out again to get me motivated to plant a garden this spring. I guess I'm getting a little winter weary already.
Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding! by Patricia Lanza (Rodale Press 1998)(635.0484) is the original writing on no-till gardening / composting in place. 6/10, finished 4/6/11.
Currently trying this technique in my yard. Seems to be working, but time will tell better. The first part is the 'how-to' and the larger second part is all about plants and how they do -- I really like the part about the herbs & how to use them.
A proven, simple way to create an easy-care garden. Especially useful if your soil is poor. But even if you don't want to use the lasagna method of building up your soil, this book is PACKED with fantastic tips for growing veggies and ornamentals.
You can garden without having a lot of space, and without a lot of expensive tools, and without chemicals. And a lot of the stuff that people throw away will help out your garden. Even though I have a lot of space, this is an easier way to garden.
One of the best gardening books I've come across. Why? It's easy to read, easy to follow, and concisely written for the ignorant, tired, or intellectually lazy. I've been using the technique this summer, and it has been very effective.
I started two new lasagna gardens in the fall. It will be interesting to see if this method works, seems simple enough. The author also includes a lot of information on vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers.
Very informative book that made gardening less intimidating and offered VERY helpful tips to setting up a garden, even for a beginner like me.
We used many of the methods the author outlines for our garden this year and have already begun planning for expansion next spring. I can honestly say that this book changed my life by showing that gardening, at least the prep stage, is much easier than anticipated and the gardening methods make tending a garden a LOT less of a pain in the neck....more
We used many of the methods the author outlines for our garden this year and have already begun planning for expansion next spring. I can honestly say that this book changed my life by showing that gardening, at least the prep stage, is much easier than anticipated and the gardening methods make tending a garden a LOT less of a pain in the neck....more
This book changed the way I garden. I went from a barely surviving patch of grass baking in the Nevada sun to a lush herb garden surrounded by flowers and vegetables. With. No. Extra. Water. !
An interesting concept on gardening of using layers of newspapers, compost and mulch to create and maintain any type of garden. No tilling required and very little weeding. I am going to try this.
Good book to skim, for ideas and whatnot for the garden. I'll incorporate a few things for this year, and see if i remember to do a few more at the end of the season for next.
I received this book for my birthday, and after reading it I am really looking forward to experimenting with lasagna gardening this spring.
I am intrigued by the concept, especially the constant mulching, which is a new idea for me. I grew most of my vegetables in compost last year, which resulted in beautiful plants... and lots of weeds. The lasagna garden takes the compost idea one step further with weed suppression through close gardening and mulching. One of the other reviewers recommended this technique combined with Square Foot Gardening, and I agree. I think a primer on companion gardening and crop rotation would fill out...more
I still think I like the square foot gardening book by Mel Bartholomew better for descriptions of how to actually make a raised garden bed. But I certainly liked this book better for descriptions of veggies, fruits, herbs, and flowers and how to plant them, when to grow them, how to maintain them, etc. For example, who knew that you're supposed to pinch back oregano or blanch cauliflower? Not me! But now I do, and I feel just so much smarter because of it. If I can find this book at a garage sal...more
What a great book! I started a lasagna garden last year, and added another one this year. It's a great way to garden.
this is my gardening bible. I read it all year around. I will use it as a reference all growing season
a quick primer on "no work" gardening... i just think there is till work involved!!
Interesting ideas for gardening
Some great tips in here. Will try this for next year's garden.
It works! :)
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