Lasagna Gardening with Herbs: Enjoy Fresh Flavor, Fragrance, and Beauty with No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding!
Product Description
Hang up your shovel and trowel! Now you can use the time (and money) you save laboring in your garden to actually enjoy it. Drawing on the amazingly simple layering system of gardening developed in her previous “lasagna gardening” books, Lanza applies these principles to the ever popular topic of growing herbs. Her organic, commonsense approach uses natural ingredients, close planting, and generous mulching, with little or no fancy equipment. Here she shares her methods based upon almost fifty years of experience to give readers tips on :
- Using the herbs in recipes
- How to make herbal wreaths and create delicious herbal teas
- Using herbs for aromatherapy and potpourris
- How to grow and use edible flowers
This is the perfect book for all the busy people who want to reap the rewards of a garden but have neither the time, the energy, nor the confidence to get down in the dirt. Accomplished and amateur gardeners alike will love … More >>
First things first, this book was great fun to read. The author writes with passion on her subject and clearly has a great love of this topic. It really does shine through. The description of different herbs is workman like and covers off on all the kitchen herbs in everyday use.
The book is punctuated by some interesting recipes. Those that I have tried I like.
Now getting down in the dirt: lasagna gardening is a combination of using composted materials coupled with a layer of news papers between the soil and the compost to eliminate weeds. Preparing rich compost from kitchen waste is something I do already, the use of newspaper as a weed suppressant is something I would never of thought of (very logical though). I love the thought of minimal work.
In general herbs can do very well in dry sandy soil and will tolerate poor conditions. My main problems are countering winter cold.
The technique outlined should be great for raised bed and limited space gardening. I plan to try out the technique on a small area, for growing annual herbs. I plan to document my progress on my blog page (check out if interested):
http://mysite.verizon.net/herbgardeners/id1.html
Great book, well worth a read if you want to try something different. Very out of the box thinking.
Lasagna gardening has become the way that my wife and I do our business. We have a small herb business and use this form of gardening exclusivley.
Great reading, using the natural forest process to plant with nutritious soil at home….VERY NICE
Lasagna gardening is a great and easy way to garden. I planted herbs this year and plan a lot more for next year. My bed of herbs looks fantastic. And NO WEEDS!!! The easiest part is layering the peat moss and other mulches to start your garden, Then basicly you just water and sit back and watch it grow. I love this book, and this method of gardening.
This book is chock full of great ideas on gardening. It has given me so many wonderful ideas. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone starting a vegetable and herb garden.