So this year I wanted to try a trick I read that some Houston gardeners use, dubbed the Lasagna Method.
Here's how it works:
1) You lay out about 3 layers of newspaper that family members have collected for you, because you don't subscribe, over the grass in the dimensions you want your garden to be.
2) Follow up with 1 part green compost (from our compost pile or bagged manure compost from a home/ garden center)
3) then 2 parts brown compost (pre-bagged leaves from your neighbors's curbs).
4) Water it.
No tilling, no raking or pulling. No annoyed family members.
1) You lay out about 3 layers of newspaper that family members have collected for you, because you don't subscribe, over the grass in the dimensions you want your garden to be.
2) Follow up with 1 part green compost (from our compost pile or bagged manure compost from a home/ garden center)
3) then 2 parts brown compost (pre-bagged leaves from your neighbors's curbs).
4) Water it.
No tilling, no raking or pulling. No annoyed family members.
All I have to do now is keep it wet and the newspaper will kill the grass while the compost layers provide nitrogen and carbon. Some people add earthworms and top with a layer of hay to discourage weeds. Bunch of overachievers. I'm going to stop with a layer of leaves, since this experiment is about ease, and I really like the idea of just burying last year's attempt with the remains of winter to wait for something new.
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