Re: CULT: lasagna gardening

Sounds like a great approach.
The "garden" rows here are several hundred feet long, originally laid out with a subsoiler to about 2 ft depth. Soil is very gravelly, but is naturally high in organic matter and fertility.
When I switched to seedlings and rebloomers, I could no longer cultivate with the tractor regularly (back when it used to rain!), which tends to throw soil towards the row, making somewhat raised beds.
So as I re-work sections of row, removing surviving scraps of this and that, I have been gradually hoeing soil from the middles to make wider 'beds' for each row, where I plant from 3 to 4 seedlings across. The middles and around seedlings is now mulched with from 2 to 6 inches of chip mulch (thinner next to plant base).
This would all be easier if I would just plow up the horse pasture for irises <g> 

Not compatible with rotation, at least not the way I'm doing it now.
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