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Hi,
I learned about this method in mother earth news and I was wondering if
anyone has used it.
I currently live in Arizona where the conditions are less then ideal with the heat and the soil we live with is concerned.
I recently tried this and found it very useful in this area. I did'nt need to
bust my tail removing grass or using any back breaking tools.
I am hoping someone has used this method and can share their thoughts
New to the group
Doug
organic gardener in arizona
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Sorry bout that.cant you tell im a newbie..lol it was in my heading,
Its callled the lasanga method of gardening,i wrote bout it on a post but didnt do a great job on my intro,my bad,anyway,its great for those that cant do much back breaking work ,or those that dont hyave all the tools.
you layer,newspapers,manure,old hay ,start over just like the food and water well for several weeks.I tried it in arizona and it worked great
love critters big and small
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and thanks for askin
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Btw Ranchgirl,I see a mastiff? what other critters do you live with besides the 2 legged kind? We board and breed horses,raise chickens,rescue cats,we have a boxer dog and an african parrot plus we do some organic gardening,
Nice to meet a newbie
Doug
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Hi! It's great to see a newbie here. Yes, my dog is a mastiff. I also have a scotish terrier, black lab, yellow lab, golden retriever, a few mutts (I can't name them all now), 10 chickens and about to get more from my crazy broody hen, 2 horses, 5 goats, tons of banties running all over the place, guinea hens flying, running, and eating bugs in mine and my neighbors yards and gardens, and a wild raven that will take peanut from my hand. I trained the raven to come and eat peanuts out of my hand. It doesn't only eat peanuts, but thats it's fave food. (fave=favorite if you don't speak text talk) I'm very busy incase you ain't noticed yet. but I love my life, and all my animals and give each animal lots of love and some time alone with me for at least 15 - 30 mins. a week, and mabey more if I can. So, how 'bout you?
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Hi,Thanks for responding,
We live in chandler arizona and are very busy as well,
we board and breed horses and are up to 16,my wife raises silky chickens and we are up to about 15 or so,we rescue cats and here goes that number but its close to..guess ok..lol..15 or so...
Besides the critters we save time for a business thats geared towards the elderly called visiting angels,
Im a over the road truck driver and am gone alot so my wife is the one who does all the work here so im very lucky to have her.
We do some organic gardening and we r planning the garden now
How do you feed all them dogs?
Yeah I know text and my chickens fave food is well everything as you know those guys eat anything and everything
Doug
I want to add a pic of my dog but im not that good yet..rofl
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I do a small garden (500 sq feet) in my back yard every season and have great luck with it. I also do some container gardening with strawberries and mixed greens.
I have never tried the lasagna method. heard good and bad things about it. I always mix equal parts of sand, top soil and potting soil. Check the PH and fertilizer amounts with a tester and give it plenty of sunshine and water.
I love to grow stuff i can cook on the grill or the mixed greens for salads.
Good luck!
Hoot
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Well, I've tried straw gardening. Did it first with strawberries. That one I dug the garden, built the beds, planted the berries, watered well, then covered the whole thing with straw - well, I did leave the plants out. It worked very well.
The next one was done in a rush. I had to go away and needed to get the potatoes in and didn't have time to dig the garden. So, and this was done in grass... I marked out the rows, dug a tiny hole big enough to get the piece of potatoe in (spud for those out east), put the dirt on top of it, watered it, then covered the whole bed with many inches of straw. That worked much better than I imagined. When I got back, there were potato plants coming up. I then heaped the straw up around them, just as you would hill with dirt. By the end of the summer, not only did I have lots of potatoes, there was no grass left. I left it all there to be planted again this year. Again, I spread the straw back, put the potatoes in, covered them and left it - again, lots of plants.
The lasagne method, my son tried on a new garden. Well, he did a modified method. Last fall, he covered the bed he wanted with many layers of newspaper - not the glossy stuff - then covered that with enough soil to hold it in place. The fall rains came, the snow came and went and when he went to dig the garden, the newspaper had all but composted and he simply dug the bed to be planted - no taking the sod off because there was none left.
With the lasagne method, I can't tell you what suppose to happen the second year - whether you do another layer or not.
Hope that helps.
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| This method seems to work well, I'll have to try it here in Florida, thanks for the good idea
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| I've used this method as a good way to start new garden beds in places, and it works really well for that. Takes a little advance planning, as in you need to do all your lasagne layers in the fall and wait until spring to plant, but it is a really great way to get a nice bed with a good compost layer, and it doesn't stir up weed seeds. For the second (and subsequent) years, you can just continue to pile stuff on. If you are into no-till, this is one of the best ways to do it. You keep building up your layers of compost, and you never destroy the soil structure and the worm layers etc. Unfortunately, my present place has really bad clay soil, so I have gone to tilling 2x per year here until we can rehab our soil. I till once in early winter before it really starts to rain, load on sheep, chicken and cow manure, compost and straw, cover with weed block fabric and let it sit for the winter. Then, till all that stuff in in the early spring before planting, and mulch like crazy with straw and grass clippings during the growing season. Once our soil is rehabbed, we'll go back to the no-till to minimal till methods. Plus, we can usually get a year-around garden here, so it's nice not to have the down time you get when you have to till. Also, I lived in Arizona for a while, years back, and one of the great things about the lasagne method is that it really helps you retain moisture in the soil - SO important!
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