Layering garden beds

Jamie Young - Natural Dye Educator on Instagram: "👉🏼✨Comment GARDEN and I’ll send you a list of the best, most affordable carbon and nitrogen sources to use while building a lasagna garden. 🌿🥳 We love using a hybrid lasagna garden method (inspired by the hugelkultur method) to fill our raised bed gardens. As you can see in the video, layers of brown (carbon) and green (nitrogen) materials are placed directly into the garden beds. The soil is enriched as the layers begin to compost over…

When creating new raised garden beds, you want to choose your materials wisely. Here's how to layer raised beds with cheap materials that are easy to source. Get your raised beds ready this fall to use in the Spring and get a head start!

By putting in various layers of things like cardboard, mulch, yard clippings, and soil, the "lasagna gardening" method provides weed-free garden beds.

It takes approximately 6-12 months for a lasagna mulched garden to be ready for planting. The exact time depends on the type of materials used and the weather. All the materials need to break down before the bed can be planted. The garden bed is ready for planting when all the layers are decomposed enough that they aren't recognizable. Another tell-tale sign is that the bed smells and looks like fresh earth.

27K likes, 319 comments - lawrence.and.louise on April 17, 2024: "IN LOVE 😍 Some Pro Tips! We now have a total of 8 stone beds & this part of the garden is complete as we are beginning to now plant! We filled the beds with cardboard, then stumps, then got shredded wood chip (or use plant matter like sticks) then we filled the top 12-18in with soil using scoops of the Sutherlands mixed compost/bed soil! (Do not mix wood chip & soil-LAYER them) Waaay cheaper! Do not do bags of soil haha…

Down to Earth Nursery on Instagram: "❌ Avoid the monotony of straight lines in your garden beds! Instead, elevate the aesthetics of your outdoor space with the graceful allure of curved lines, which allow for layering, creating depth, and visual interest in your garden design. 🌸 Check out our landscaping services on our website (link in bio) 🌞🌿 Follow for more landscaping tips!"

When layering a landscape, design principles such as repetition, scale, flow and depth are used to create a intentional and dynamic garden design.

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