tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5185837729875061195.post1082422404639006183..comments2023-08-14T05:20:22.023-05:00Comments on A Student Gardener: LASAGNA GARDEN - part 1astudentgardenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17897771369368350331noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5185837729875061195.post-45094528910716705022013-11-14T20:25:01.560-06:002013-11-14T20:25:01.560-06:00I wonder how your new garden is doing and where yo...I wonder how your new garden is doing and where you decided to put it. not sure how I missed your comment, but I would have advised whichever one you may not want to use right away. I planted mine days before freeze up and maybe that was part of the problem but come spring it was hardly composted and it was tough for some plants to get nutrients. I even found some plants still alive and growing up from within the compost:lovely white Dianthus I have moved to the Moon Garden. Based on my experience I would say make it in the summer but don't plant in it until the following spring once it has had more time to break things down.astudentgardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17897771369368350331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5185837729875061195.post-74609766447749549032013-07-29T17:16:51.855-05:002013-07-29T17:16:51.855-05:00I've been re-reading all of your lasagna garde...I've been re-reading all of your lasagna garden posts as I am about to start a lasagna bed of my own. My quandary is where to try it. We have plans for a fairly large bed right at a front corner of our house, but it will be rather large and very obvious. However, my husband has been avoiding tilling the space for me since late spring, so maybe he'll be very appreciative if he doesn't have to do it! Luckily, I can just pop into the woods next to our house and collect all of the lovely dead-leaf and decayed wood soil I want, and my son's been collecting grass clippings when he mows our lawn and the neighbor's. <br /><br />My other choice is up in the backyard, along the outer perimeter of a small copse of trees. I'd love to get a good shade garden going up there, but digging around all the roots is nigh on impossible! I just don't know whether it would hurt the tree roots. Still need to think about this, but I'm thinking it would be nice to get it going now, in early August, so that I can put some plants in come September, so they'll have time to get established before the ground freezes sometime in late November/early December.Kimberley at Cosmos and Cleomehttp://cosmosandcleome.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5185837729875061195.post-78500660043138911942012-11-06T18:14:37.196-06:002012-11-06T18:14:37.196-06:00I'll be sure to check yours out, thanks for st...I'll be sure to check yours out, thanks for stopping and good luck with your own lasagna garden. I'll be posting some more updates on it soon.astudentgardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17897771369368350331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5185837729875061195.post-58047044656960810562012-10-31T22:55:48.408-05:002012-10-31T22:55:48.408-05:00Your lasagna garden is turning out quite lovely! I...Your lasagna garden is turning out quite lovely! I was recently given the opportunity to convert a friend's 1/4 backyard of mainly sod into an edible food forest / community garden. I am definitely going with lasagna gardening for most of it! :) It makes things so simple and easy and takes up waaaay less time too. I also think it's nice to just let the soil do it's thing. I found your blog on blotanical and I love it! Check out mine here - regrowroots.wordpress.com Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02196633218594353337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5185837729875061195.post-168259589674738632012-10-29T11:09:15.171-05:002012-10-29T11:09:15.171-05:00Great to hear of someone else doing something simi...Great to hear of someone else doing something similar. And you are right, it has been good exercise, I can feel it in my shoulders - good practice for the coming months of snow shoveling. astudentgardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17897771369368350331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5185837729875061195.post-231404470389229662012-10-29T11:08:12.825-05:002012-10-29T11:08:12.825-05:00The bed at the south will give a feeling of connec...The bed at the south will give a feeling of connectedness with the bed in front of the house, so the whole area in general will be very garden-y.astudentgardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17897771369368350331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5185837729875061195.post-65906174275296000782012-10-27T19:49:45.697-05:002012-10-27T19:49:45.697-05:00I've never had the patience, once we decided I...I've never had the patience, once we decided I was going to get more garden space to use the lasagna method. I want to dig in right now! You'll be glad you had the patience and determination to do yours that way. We have grass where a sidewalk would be, too.<br /><br />We typically get a lot of the neighbors' leaves, usually after they rake them for our compost piles. A few days ago, I walked across the street where a neighbor was raking, and she asked if we wanted her leaves. She had surgery awhile back, so I told her to quit raking, and we'd finish up. My husband, Larry mows next door to us, so we went out with tarps and raked leaves from across the street and next door, and got many that were in the street. I wanted to go farther up the street to get the ones that were in the curb, but Larry didn't want to. I think it's cool that you got all those leaves from the neighbors'. Look at all the good exercise you got! Corner Gardener Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10631500918579405664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5185837729875061195.post-21661282679880441952012-10-27T17:54:18.132-05:002012-10-27T17:54:18.132-05:00Nice work! Your new bed will really transform your...Nice work! Your new bed will really transform your yard.Jasonhttp://gardeninacity.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com