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Lasagna in your Garden? Grow Ahead!

Lasagna Gardening has been around awhile. In fact it's been around a lot longer than it's been called Lasagna Gardening: it's also called a layered bed, or layered composting. The woman who brought this back in vogue back in the late nineties, Patricia Lanza, has diversified slightly too. She's also got books for lasagna container gardening (the one I'm picking up) and for herbs as well. If you want to get some overview of the technique, you can visit Lasagna Gardening 101, and an article by Ellen Brown called "An Introduction to Lasagna Gardening". To see a Lasagna garden in a grand scale over the course of several years, in Canadian weather no less, visit Wit's End B&B's Lasagna Project. They did a wonderful job using the technique and photographing it.

There are some challenges, though (it's not Microwave Gardening, after all). some plants really need good solid dirt to propagate properly. Transplants appear to work quite well, and small seeds are the most difficult.

Our good friend and wagging companion of over eleven years was layed to rest this past Friday. We're all missing her deeply. She was a great dog, a real love to her whole family and anyone that walked in the door. Those who were 2-1/2 ft. tall or smaller will remember her constantly wagging tail - it was like a furry tree limb that would usually end up knocking them over (that tail was THICK!). We'll always remember her smile, her good temperment, and her ability to look so guilty when she'd eaten anything off the kid's table in the family room (it was nose level - how could she resist?).