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Lasagna gardens?
Grow your own food next spring - make a lasagna garden this fall!
Lots of leaves this fall make a lasagna garden for spring. Lasagna gardening is a great, low-cost way to build a garden bed without a tiller. The method is simple; you just make layers of organic materials where you want your garden to be next year. For example, you can pick an area of lawn or soil, put down a layer of non-glossy newspaper about 5 pages thick then add other materials on top in layers.
Choose from: chopped leaves (or unchopped in thin layers), pine needles, compost, grass clippings, vegetable scraps, hay (moldy ok), straw, and/or more newspaper. Some people use cardboard as their bottom layer instead of newspaper. Woodchips are not recommended as a layer unless they are composted first-that is look like dirt instead of wood chunks.
These layers will decompose to create great garden soil over the winter. By spring you can plant your own very local food!
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