It’s been a wild and crazy year in the garden–cool early summer in Albuquerque and now blistering hot. I’ve traveled to the midwest and back and while some of my plants withered while I was gone, I have the fall garden to look forward to. Three season gardening should become the norm rather than remain an exception and one of easiest systems for creating a fall garden while preparing for the spring is with the “lasagna gardening” system made popular by Patricia Lanza. (You can buy her book–Lasagna Gardening– from the Amazon link on the right side of this blog.) Everyone seems to be doing it. And why not? You can create a flourishing garden right over the weeds or compacted soil or even the driveway. And while I prepare a raised bed system for many reasons–more drainage in wetter areas, easier access, easier to protect from frost damage–there is no faster, cheaper way to get started growing food than with a lasagna bed. And here’s a cute little youtube video from Peaceful Meadow Farm to prove it:
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The “secret” of Outrageous Gardens
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So what’s the “secret?”
The title of this blog may be a bit deceiving to some yet I am quite certain that what we call gardens are simply energetic relationships that manifest through the intention of soil, seeds, water, air and sunlight brought together all in one place. People at our workshops watch us throw together some newspaper, dried leaves, spoiled hay or grass clippings, some not quite decomposed compost, maybe some pumice stones or even cola cans, toss them into a tire or wading pool or a rectangle of straw bales– VOILA! –they see a garden. I see the Universe. But that’s another blog. (more…)
