Okay, so I have a garden! Our backyard is supposed to have grass, but since it's a rental they've let it grow to tall weeds. So I decided to grow a garden...and since the Bay Area dirt is more like clay, I decided to attempt a Lasagna Garden based on my friends(Kathryn Lamby Spagnolo) garden last year.
So here are pics! (Before Picture with dead weeds)
(Laying down wet newspaper/cardboard)
A Lasagna Garden is where you lay wet newspaper or cardboard down over the dirt so NO WEEDS COME UP! Then, you later it with grass, leaves, compost, peat moss, etc. I prepped the ground in March where I proceeded to use all my vegi/fruit scraps for the compost. I then would layer it and cover it with black plastic where the sun cooked the garden down to a dark moist dirt pile. Then at the end of April I planted my garden.
There are:
2 Lasagna Piles,
1 Lasagna Style Container (which is a left over tire I found in our yard) where I planted Bush Beans! My hope is that the Bush Beans will grown and cover the tire.
1 Lasagna Style Ring where I contained it with red brick rings
A hand full of pots (half lasagna style and half potting soil) where I planted a jug with a pin-prick in the bottom where water can self water the plant. In theory I should be able to fill it up once a week and the plant sucks the water out when it needs water.
Then, I also planted peas, tomatoes, and beans straight in the ground soil to experiment on which way works the best. I added Amending Soil to the Clay Soil.
That's it!!!
Guess how many tomatoe plants I have? I bought 8...my visiting teacher brought me 1 more, my roommates Mom gave me 2 more, my friend is moving and offered me 3 of hers along with her little citrus tree. So...14 Tomatoe plants will soon be in my garden. Too much? maybe:)
