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  • From: Gloria Baikauskas <gcb49@flash.net>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] growing even more food including herbs
  • Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 19:07:16 -0800 (PST)

He's wrong.  With lasagne gardening the ingredients become mixed by the worms, the ants, and other soil critters that are less visible.  IOW....all you are doing is enriching the soil that is already there.  At first it may not seem that way...but it is what happens. That first layer of newspaper doesn't stay newspaper.  It decomposes well......as long as it is wet when it is put down.  The reason for using it is to discourage growth beneath it of weeds and grasses, etc. 
 
When you do this you are not creating a 'pot' in which to grow.  You are not isolating anything that can only be nourished by liquids you add to the water in hydroponic gardening.  I see hydroponics as being closest to chemical farming because what is in the water can only grow through what the water is fed.  The nutrition in the food grown is not quite as good as it could be if the plants were grown in soil. 
 
All you are doing with lasagne gardening is creating a quick compost pile that you can grow in much sooner than a normal compost pile that must heat up and break down what is put into it much more slowly.  You are building new soil.  With hydroponics you have built nothing....created nothing. 
 
Gloria, Texas



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