I’m a bit behind on posting this info, but about three weeks ago I started to set up my first lasagna garden bed in the yard. (We’ve recently moved into a “new” house in Appleton and have a wonderfully big backyard, just begging for a big garden!) In general I really like raised bed gardening. It’s a way to isolate the soil for growing veggies from damaging foot traffic. The soil in the bed can be amended and improved without having to worry about the impact of footsteps destroying the soil structure through compression. It’s also a great way to clearly define where the garden starts and ends – at the boards.
I first started by building the box for the bed out of 2-by-8′s. In hindsight I probably should’ve gone with 2-by-6′s as the 2-by-8′s are going to require too much material to fill the bed. What you see is a bunch of notebook paper help down with clods of dirt, on top of which the grass clippings are going.
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So here’s the final result for now. Most of the brown that you see is peat moss. But, directly around the raspberries I mounded regular potting dirt. I figured this would give them more stability as well as a solid start to send their new roots out into. I’ll continue to add the layering of “browns” and “greens” over the summer to fill up this bed.
A couple weeks after I got this bed all ready I came a bought some nickle discounted plants at Fleet Farm. More of an experiment than anything else I stuck them in randomly around the raspberries. We’ll see how they turn out. Even we get one tomato it’ll be worth it! The discount plants totaled about 60-cents.
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