If you have a garden area that’s hard to reach with a rototiller or even a shovel, consider sheet composting (sometimes called no-till or lasagna gardening). For example, I had a narrow plot ...

Lasagna gardening may sound like the most delicious pastime, but it doesn't actually refer to growing the tomatoes, herbs, and wheat that you could turn into the classic tiered pasta. Instead, it's ...

The perfect green-carpet lawn – once revered as the hallmark of a responsible homeowner – seems to have taken an about-face. In some circles at least, a big, weed-free lawn is vilified these days as a ...

Switching up your yard usually means ripping up the grass, tilling, and fertilizing the soil to prep for new vegetation, but why not just cover it up? Sheet mulching uses a simple form of composting ...

Cold, wet weather brings opportunities to sit in front of a warm fire. But if you get out now to do some sheet composting, you'll be smothering weeds, feeding the soil, attracting garden worms and ...

Q: I would like to remove a section of my lawn. Is there a way to do this that does not involve a bunch of equipment? My back lawn is difficult to access from the street. During the drought I let my ...

I got a press release today from Oregon State University Extension Service about an easy way to start a vegetable garden (or any kind of bed). It's called lasagna gardening or sheet composting. To ...

Fall and winter are great times to do sheet composting in your garden. So just what is sheet composting and what are the benefits? Some people call it smothering, sheet mulching or lasagna composting.

Fall is filled with preparing gardens for the following season, raking leaves, and harvesting. Use plant trimmings and fall leaves to create raised beds and a quality planting mix without disturbing ...

In the wild areas on our planet, trees, bushes and grasses grow on ground that has continual additions of new layers of dead and dying plant matter. Leaves fall from trees and shrubs, grasses dry in ...