NO-DIG GARDENING

 No- Dig Gardening

You can create a bird-friendly garden out of a lawn very quickly by using sheet/lasagna gardening techniques.

Lasagna gardening is a no-dig, no-till gardening technique.

You can choose an area covered with thick sod. DO NOT DIG!

Add layers of newspaper or cardboard (smother weeds and sod) compost, leaves, and grass clippings.

You can add organic materials such as tea bags, fruit and veggie scraps, and garden trimmings.

It can be made any time but autumn is ideal due to available fallen leaves - garden can break down all winter.

If you choose spring and have no leaves, add topsoil and peat moss up to an about 10 cm (4 inches)

Alternate green (provide nitrogen) layers with brown (provide carbon) layers.

Brown layers should be twice as deep as green layer.

Do not overwater garden as that will cause rot!

Once your materials have decomposed into a layer of loose compost-like materials plant your garden.

If planting shrubs you might have to cut a hole in the cardboard.
Each year you can keep adding leaves, grass clippings, and compost.












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