How to Build a Lasagna Garden - The easiest, most productive method I've used
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- This video is about how to build a lasagna garden. Learning how to build a lasagna bed is super easy. It's the cheapest and easiest garden bed I've ever built. Lasagna gardening is based on Patricia Lanza's book Lasagna Gardening. The lasagna gardening method is a no till, sheet composting method of creating abundantly fertile soil.
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I did a similar method last fall in a small area and, because I got great results, did it over a larger area recently. First I bury food scraps that I saved and froze. Then covered that with layers of newspapers (thx Sunday NYT), then covered that with cardboard. I have some leftover mulch which will top it off. This year I had incredibly large earthworms and the soil was great. I had the best year of tomatoes ever. In the spring I can't wait to see the results from my recent work.
Great video! I layer everything. I'm in a desert so i have to mulch the top layer heavy. I wait till seeds grow up a little. My secret ingredients in my lasgna garden are rabbit poo and woodchips. Keep up the good work.
Rabbit poo is awesome
Excellent video. Your raised garden bed (built with planter blocks) gave me an idea!
I’m glad it did! Thanks for stopping by 😊
I like the process of the bed filling and how it is called the Lasagna Garden bed. Great idea, Thanks for sharing. Thumbs up! 10
Thanks for stopping by! It’s my best favorite 😁
Love this method! Using all natural materials. No waste.
Yes, it works really well. My most productive beds are the layered one. Thanks for watching!
Awesome overview on building a lasagna garden. A wonderful way to build new garden beds.
Rob
Thanks for watching!
A must follow technique! Especially adding those kitchen scraps huge help to minimize rubbish and so good turning into soil
Yes, great way to keep those things out of the landfills.
This looks great. I do something similar (at least with the initial cardboard mulching) inspired by Charles Dowding's No Dig method, have you ever heard of it? He has a really excellent TH-cam channel, here's his quick explanation of the technique: [No dig explained in 3 minutes] But he's made a load of great general gardening videos too.
This is such a common sense method and its cheap and easy too 😄
It is! It works so well.
Thank you.
You’re welcome!
Tip. Always use stinging nettle and ashes in your garden for major nutrition for you and your kids. Grow nettle near tomatoes
Yes! I do use ashes. We don’t use nettle. My granddaughter is highly sensitive to it and gets blisters. It’s a fabulous resource for those who can use it. Great tips. Thank you!
@@beesandseeds nettle can be gotten in the garden as a powder she won't get in contact with it ever. You can also get it in tea form brew it and use it to feed your plants.
@@svelanikolova5776 Thank you! I didn’t know that. I’ll have to
Look for some
Great technique! we were just talking about using this technique for a small area where we have lilac that just never blooms, we want to clear the space for a possible strawberry patch or pumkin patch.
Do it. It’s so fertile.
@@beesandseeds Randy wants to get the neighbor over with his tractor to help clear the lilac! I can't wait!
@@SlowlanelivingwithPaulaRandy strawberries could be nice because they come back each year. I’m excited for you lol. It’s so fun to plant new areas
That's a great method to build up soil. 👍
Its so easy! Thanks for stopping by 😊
Thanks for sharing this video. I can do this to my very first garden bed. Sending you a big S💕👍
Thank you! Your very first bed, Fun! 😁
I will definitely try this technique. Thanks.
It’s the best!
Very nice lasagna bed.
Thank you!
This is nice 😊. I love such projects in the garden 👍
My favorite type of bed, so productive 😊. Thank you for visiting.
Definitely helpful, thanks for posting. 😘😗
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this was so great thanks for the great tips
I’m glad it was helpful! Thanks for stopping by 😊
Does anyone use banana peels and ground eggshells in these? I know it works for tomatoes, but not sure of other plants.
Yes! I through all the kitchen scraps in. Lots of both go in
What do we use in place of kitchen scraps if we don’t have compost material like that yet?
You don’t have to compost your kitchen waste first, you can just add it to the plie. It all composts in place. I use it plus all the grass from mowing, leaves, garden weeds, etc. Any plant material you can get. I wouldn’t add anything with thorns. Briars take a long time to break down and they’ll stab you.
How long does this take to break down ? Like it is September right now and we live in zone three. If I do this, will the beds be ready by spring?
Zone 3 gets cold but I would assume so. However, if it's not fully broken down you can plant right in it anyway. I have before. I've parted a hole in the mostly broken down vegetation and set my transplant right there. If you're direct seeding, you'd need it broken down all the way.
Thank you so much. This is very helpful. My question is, how do you feed the bed once it is established?
It depends on what is on the bed. If it’s perennials, I water with compost teas during the growing season and top the beds in the fall with compost and worm castings.
If it’s a bed I’ll be using again for annual veggies, once I harvest it I begin to add compostable materials again such as food wastes, leaves, chicken bedding etc. The beds shrink down in height as they decompose and I heap them back up again.
@@beesandseeds Perfect! I really appreciate your help.
@@alanandjanetpohl4043 you’re welcome!
Can I use cypress straw? I have so much of it in the Fall.
I wonder what happened to that onion 😂
So you do not put any dirt or potting soil material in this lasagna bed ?
Usually I don’t. I start them the summer/fall before. If I start spring, I’ll pile up whatever I have and then add a layer of compost/soil on top to plant into. If I have potted plants I’m repotting, sometimes I dump the old soil in the bed.
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I'm just like you who love to plant
It’s addictive lol
I have to try burying kitchen scraps, I didn't know you didn't have to use cardboard.
Typo in the title*
Yes do! Everything added to the garden helps it maintain fertility.
Cardboard: If you don’t use it, you’ll want to have a lot of material to pile up so it’s deep and hopefully the grasses can’t get through. I use cardboard but my neighbor doesn’t. She has success but she makes a 2-3 pile from the start, like the lasagna garden book says to. Thanks on the typo heads up 😁. Fixed it. You’re the best
@@beesandseeds no problem, thanks