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hamtron5000@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Image i’ve posted about this before, but here’s our current progress on deep lasagna mulching our front yard. we just had an apple tree put in, and i have seeded the grass clipping-covered area of this part of our yard with cover crops. laughing wife for scale.
toothpicks@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
ooh what is deep lasagna mulchin? sounds tastey haha
hamtron5000@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
lol, absolutely! it’s a combination of this method (deep mulching, the Ruth Stoat method) and this method (lasagna mulching or lasagna composting).
what we’re doing is laying down a double layer of cardboard, topping it with 3+ inches of wood chips, adding nitrogen in the form of grass clippings and, later in the year, leaves; and adding some manure, then seeding that mix with cover crops.
on the other side of our yard, we’re going to do a more traditional lasagna method because we’re running low on wood chips. this will be cardboard, an inch of woodchips, manure, and nitrogen. this will also be seeded.
in the spring, when our cover crops have bloomed, we’ll chop and drop them where they are, adding more organic material to the soil we’re building. finally, in that mixture, we’ll plant the native wildflowers and food crops we’re interested in growing and harvesting.
toothpicks@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
So cool!