Re: Building the garden UP
- Subject: Re: Building the garden UP
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 23:38:54 EDT
In a message dated 6/23/01 10:01:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ECPep@aol.com
writes:
<< << When you can't go down, you must go up. So, like you, I start a new
bed
by
making it my compost pile for at least one year. Kitchen scraps, newspaper,
chipped prunings, leaves, garden waste, rotted manure - they all go into the
pile and it isn't even turned much, just kind of muddled around. But by the
next spring, you can plant right into it and the plants take off like a
shot. It is very satisfying. >> >>
===>There's actually a book about this called "Lasagna Gardening." The
author, Pat Lanza, is a buddy of mine and it's a nicely done book. Lots of
"recipes" for different types of layered gardens. Pat says making a new bed
shouldn't be hard work. She also won a major award from the Garden Writers
Association of America for this book.
I'm pretty sure the book is still in print and could be ordered from Amazon,
Borders, Barnes and Noble, etc.
Bill Lee
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