Join us this week as we show you how to build an incredible garden, in any location, with minimal work and inputs for amazing results in less than 4 months!
We will show you an existing thriving garden that was built this way and take you through a complete renovation of another garden bed using this method.
This episode is filled with handy tips and tricks to get you started immediately on how to build a unique style garden developed by Australian gardener, Esther Dean, in the 1970s.
00:00 A lasagna style garden you can build anywhere. Thank you Esther Dean.
02:09 Getting started
03:35 Salvaging previous crops and building around existing plants
05:41 Weed barrier, paths and layer 1
06:54 Manure variations for the second layer and adding amendments
07:50 Third and fourth layers
08:26 Fabulous funghi and why we irrigate overhead
09:55 Fifth garden layer, compost, the planting medium
10:41 Planting out the beds to winter crops
16:16 Mulching
17:54 Results
19:26 Soil quality after 4 months
19:46 Try it at home for yourself!
20:41 Thanks and see you next time
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I just spoke to my mother, apparently there's a woman named Ruth Stout who created something of a precursor to lasagna gardening and who wrote a book about it in 1970, and my father bought one when it came out and we still have it in our library. Just found that interesting, thought I'd share.
Wow! I never fail to learn something on this channel! Thank you Troy and Pasky! ❤
We will be glued to the screen, wide eyed, watching developments
Beautiful video again Troy and Pascale. I'm really looking forward to seeing the results of planting different varieties of veg/herbs/flowers together. I bet it looks amazing, and much more exciting than a garden that looks like rows of soldiers. In a garden a few years ago we got some disgusting grey aphid looking things in the brassicas – it went through the whole lot. If yours are scattered you may not get such a massacre. Just a hint about coffee grounds – I tried that to affect the pH level of a blueberry/citrus garden, and just spread them around. They formed an impermeable layer that shed water! Almost like concrete. Now I mix them in with soil or compost and it seems to have stopped the concretion!
What a lovely presentation 💯One thing I always do in my veggie patch is grow a large semi-sacrificial crop of radishes alongside my main garden. For whatever reason, the (predominantly white cabbage moth) flying insects absolutely flock to it out of preference to all other vegetable matter and I am more than happy to let the caterpillars eat away the radish leaves (they get so thick with eggs and mothdust they turn white, but don't affect the radish production)… Of course I will get a few stragglers eating on my spinach and lettuce etc, but the numbers are so low they can be picked off with ease. Just a thought, perhaps you'd like to experiment with something like that. I swear by it ❤
Giving serious thought to trialling the lasagne method now !
Lovely video. Thanks for this and for the lessons. Hello from B.C. and wishing we could send some rain your way. Hope you get some soon.
I’ve watched you guys from the beginning and this is my first comment. Love what you do 🌻. Pasquale where did you get that wonderful hat? I want one!
Gardening for a growing brood. Great to see.
I don't mean to be rude but, are we going to see some pink little feet in the months to come or has some one been eating too much chocolate. Some one has a belly 😃👍
I'm certainly envious of your tomato crop, I've had a dismal year. I'm not surprised with your carrots. They've given you a bit of a backhanded compliment. Your soil prep is too good!
Contrary to 90% of what you read, carrots and parsnips seem not to like being treated too kindly.
If you give them too much nutrient, the tops grow beautifully and so does the seed, but the roots tend to be diminutive. Nice loose sandy loam with not too much in the way of all the good things that every other vegetable enjoys seems to be the best way forward. It forces the root to go looking for its nutrients, which is what you want.
I've never had any luck with it, but intermingling your brassicas can be beneficial, supposedly.
Broccoli is apparently rich in nicotine which kill any bugs that eat it. Once again, supposedly.
I'm pretty sure that I remember you guys enjoying the occasional beer when you were sailing.
The left over "dregs" that result from home brewing make an excellent pesticide.
I bury take away containers with their tops level to the ground and fill those with any residual from the brewing process. You'd be surprised how many pesky insects are prepared to die for some of my home brew. If you're near a brewery, perhaps you could ask to collect the trub from the brews. They just chuck it down the drain, anyway. Good luck, and thanks for the content.
Wow ! Fantastic video. You two have taken your gardening very seriously and to a whole new level. It definitely pays to experiment with different gardening techniques to find what works best in your area and for you personally. I love the assortment of plants that you are putting in as well. You've put in a lot of work and I hope you are rewarded with a really good harvest when the time comes.
G'day folks. Calling in from across the ditch here in EnZed. Not sure about weather patterns over your way, but where I live, our autumn rains have started. Good thing also is that our early frosts are slow starting. Need to get my winter crops planted…eg brassicas. Btw Pascale, just an add on to my comment about distance for planting spuds, and the resulting increase in size. Have double checked with John Seymour in his "Self Sufficiency" book and he says to plant 60cm apart as I did, for starter, but for the MAIN crops he goes so far as to suggest 75cm apart.!! I believe he might have quoted from his book, "The Fat of the Land." I'm looking at winter spuds this year. That requires a tunnel house and some TLC. Anyway love what you're doing. Until next time, atb. Cheers.
Excellent advice
Thanks, good time for gardening and your info is appreciated
awesome video love it! very inspiring 👏
i asked to wish happiness.thanks
Pasky looks radiant 😉
No offence..just a guess 🙂
Thanks for all the tips guys, I'll be doing similar beds soon so it's great to have all this experience beforehand.
Question please: How did you set up the irrigation you show in this video? Or if done earlier, what episode was it?
Thank you,
My ex-father-in-law would travel some 30ish miles to get used grain from beer breweries to add into the feed for his dairy herd, another use for brewers grain! The goats and pigs should love it! My late Uncle kept a barrel of wheycfrom a creamery to add in with his hog feed, they loved it!
Looks like some fun times ahead as the garden continues to thrive.