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 enlarge | Author: Patricia Lanza
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 23524
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 244
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0875969623
Dewey Decimal Number: 635
EAN: 9780875969626
ASIN: 0875969623
Publication Date: November 15, 1998
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 Lasagna Gardening May 12, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I, for one, am going to do the Lasagna Gardening way this year. I can't wait. It makes so much sense to garden this way. I am so glad that this book came my way because I am rather new to gardening and lazy, I must add because I really don't care to bend over to weed the garden.
This should be my new way from now on.
It's all true! May 12, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I was amazed to discover that the techniques in this book actually work! As someone with some mobility issues, gardening has always been an ambivalent activity. I love to garden, but the activity itself is painful. This book provides a relatively pain free solution (for me, anyway)!
In addition to the gardening method, the book also gives you specific tips for successfully growing a large number of fruits, veggies, flowers, herbs, bramble fruits, and more.
This is the easiest way to garden - and do it organically - that I've ever heard of. Hooray for Patricia Lanza! I'll be Lasagna Gardening for as long as I continue to garden. Buy the book!!! You won't regret it.
Lasagna Gardening January 9, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Ordered this book as a gift because the receiver truly enjoyed reading our copy. Excellent.
 All-Around Organic Gardening Book November 11, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is an all-around gardening reference. It follows organic methods to ensure safe production of vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and covers a wide range of gardening topics, with information about growing vegetables, herbs, berries, flowers, fall and winter gardening, pest control, and garden design. The chapters include detailed sections describing growth habits and techniques for specific plants, arranged alphabetically, as well as summary tables for quick reference noting hardiness zones, the size of plants, and tips.
So what is lasagna gardening? It is a gardening method that Lanza developed that involves layering growing media in beds in such a way that there is a continuous supply of nutrients and organic matter for the plants. This unique layering method eliminates the need for rototilling or digging, while minimizing weeds. One example of layering that Lanza describes is to start by putting a layer of newspaper directly on undisturbed sod or lawn, followed by a layer of peat moss, some barn litter, more peat moss, some compost, more peat moss, grass clippings, more peat moss, chopped leaves, more peat moss, and wood ashes. This material is then allowed to sit for a few months for the layers to decompose, creating a rich, light, mostly weed free soil; covered with black plastic to raise the temperature, the garden bed may be ready for planting in as little as six weeks. The actual components of the layers will be determined by what is readily available in the neighborhood. Lanza provides suggestions for what materials work well in her system, as well as some suggestions for how they can be obtained at little or no cost.
While her lasagna method certainly sounds as if it would work well, the book goes far beyond explaining just this method, and provides answers to many general gardening questions that have little relation to lasagna gardening (such as rock gardening). In seeking to be complete, a few of her descriptions sound a little far-fetched, as if she were relying on others' experience or simply guessing (such as when she suggests that one can tell if elderberries are ripe by taste-testing for sweetness--has she ever tasted an elderberry straight off the bush?). Nevertheless, the layer approach sounds promising as well as easy and organic, and the reference lists of plants are very useful for garden planning.
I read it-I did it-It works! October 16, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
It's a great idea, one that saved me backbreaking work on getting new garden beds established in a very short time. I wish I had heard of this book years before.
The hardest part is lugging home the bags and bags of soil needed. But at least I avoided the digging that breaks nails, backs and spirit. Plus I can start out with organic soil in the first place.
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