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Lasagna Gardening Part Two

Are you wanting to create a new garden bed this weekend?  Here is Jules Carney's second installment in her writing about lasagna gardening:

Some books suggest that if you build a lasagna garden in the fall or early spring it can break down into workable soil by planting time, but in my experience it may take longer in this cool climate, so I either use fairly well-rotted compost or manure as a green layer, or cut right down through the cardboard and plant into the soil below.

Lasagna Gardening Part One

Are you starting a new garden bed this year or sprucing up last year's? Two years ago I wanted to start a vegetable patch to expand on our family’s cottage garden, but there were two problems: my chosen plot was covered in three foot tall grass, and I hate seeing bare soil.

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