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No, I’m not growing Lasagna…haha!

Lasagna gardening is a way of gardening using, well, trash, among other things. Here’s what we did.

First we laid out some old railroad ties in a square. Then we started filling it up with all our compostible trash. Paper, cardboard, and whatever else we had that could go into the compost pile. Over that we threw horse poop, goat poop, chicken poop, old straw, wood shaving, and dirt. Then we started all over again and layered everything just like you would if you were making lasagna. Hence, the name Lasagna Gardening.

So, in our first one we planted two varieties of radishes, mustard greens, and lettuce. Today, I picked 2 bags full of mustard greens which I will have to blanch and freeze. And I picked three bags full of radishes which I plan to make into radish relish and preserve.

We also planted some new things today. We planted two varieties of Okra, some red onion, some red potatoes and some sugar snaps peas. Yum! Needless to say. I’m plum beat.

Tomorrow I will try to get some pictures of the harvest. I’m soooooo glad we are finally starting to warm up a bit.