Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Hi Bina,

Have you read Leslie's post about bokashi? This is exciting because it can give
me instant gratification in composting kitchen scraps! I like your idea of using
cardboard, since I can't seem to find newspapers. I visited all the libraries
around and non have recycling bins for newspapers. Do you use thick box
cardboard or thinner cardboard like from cereal boxes etc.?

Cynthia

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From: binaatthelake <schultzjanet@ymail.com>
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, February 12, 2011 8:26:47 PM
Subject: [Organic_Gardening] Re: Lasagna Gardens

 
I used cardboard and it worked just fine, used it dry and wetted it with the
hose well after. I put wet newspaper over any holes/handls that there were. I
have 11 raised lasagna beds all 4x6 feet I am planting them in square foot
method as well.

Then last fall I emptied out the compost heap, used the last of the straw, all
the leaves, all the soil from the potatoes, and a bale of peat moss. Layered it
all on top of the television box I had kept in the garage until I was told I
didn't have to and added a bunch more boxes that had collected over the summer
and built a ground level bed in the front yard....4x25 ft. Our grocery store
supplied the rest.
Lasagna works and works very well, when I build the beds I take advantage of the
layers and add organic fertilizers like bone meal, seed meal, wood ash, etc
scattered between, wetting down as you go.

Just an FYI they do settle...a fair bit the first couple of years so I have been
stirring in which is really really easy cause it's so loose, things like all the
beds got some sand added this past spring for the first five beds that I built
just to give them a "tooth" the original soil I got was just a little silty so
they needed it, and then some peat moss, and then some compost, and mulch and
organic fertilizer. I will do it again this year I'm sure but even with the
annual top dressings which I did in my old beds too I have loved the way it is
coming together.

Good luck with your garden,
cheers
Bina

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> I was just over at the library and their recycle tub is full to go to the curb

> next week. Might check there too.
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> From: Jeff Strong <jeff_faithwalker@...>
> To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Fri, February 11, 2011 11:00:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [Organic_Gardening] Lasagna Gardens
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> Cynthia,
> I would caution against the scraps into the garden. It invites unwanted
> guest.
> Newspaper, try going around to the restaurants and dinners and see if you can
> glean from their recycling bins. And then their are always the
> neighbors.Actually any eating establishment will probably have and abundant
> supply of news papers.
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> From: art_cy <cynthia@...>
> To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sat, February 5, 2011 3:59:06 PM
> Subject: [Organic_Gardening] Lasagna Gardens
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> Hello Everyone,
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> After reading a post about lasagna gardening from a new member in Alaska, I did
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> some research on how to do this type of gardening. It is a simple process of
> layering brown and green waste materials and, finally, toping it off with good

> garden soil. My question is: Does anyone know if it is prudent to dump kitchen

> material that is good for composting directly into the garden?
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> Second question: Does anyone know where I can get a quantity of newspapers at
> one time? I have made the rounds to all the paper recycling drop-offs near me
> and found nothing.
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> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cynthia
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