Lasagna Garden Update!
I started a Lasagna Garden in my Vegetable Patch on 10th December, building a “green” layer that brings nitrogen to the soil with compost, rotten apples and plums, lawn clippings, withered flowers; and topping it with a carbon-rich “brown” layer (twice as deep) of wood chips, broken twigs, ashes and dead leaves.
A week later, I repeated the process, and allowed the layers to start decomposing into a rich soil, for about a month and a half.
And today, as it was the first sunny day in quite a while, I added my last “green” and “brown” layers. This was a good reason to rake the last of the dead leaves on the lawn, and to sweep the terrace!
(I also ended up sorting the shed; I do it every year in January, and somehow the mess always comes back! And I ate a hot bowl of Chili Con Carne with fluffy white rice and a glass of Saint-Emilion reading in the sunshine!) A Sunday well-spent, I reckon!
Now, I shall let it do it thing until Spring, when I’ll start sowing. So, now I will have a thorough look into all the seed catalogues I’ve received and inventory those I have left!