Lasagna Gardening with Herbs: Enjoy Fresh Flavor, Fragrance, and Beauty with No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding! (Paperback)

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"From the first paragraph of Lasagna Gardening with Herbs to the last, I felt as though I had finally found my soil sister. Pat Lanza writes and gardens with knowledge, passion, and a pioneer spirit. Her easy-to-implement tips, combined with her encyclopedic wisdom about plants and soil, make her book indispensable to both beginning and advanced gardeners."--Sharon Lovejoy, contributing editor of Country Living Gardener, a New York Times syndicated contributor, and author of numerous books, including Trowel & Error

"If Pat Lanza sometimes has dirty fingernails, it's because she's a writer with the hands-on, dig-in-the-dirt passion of a gardener. When she writes about gardening methods, you know she's tried them. And with her discovery of lasagna gardening, she's managed to make it easier for all of us."--Walter Chandoha, animal and garden photographer and author and illustrator of more than 25 books, including The Literary Gardener

"Pat Lanza is the only one I know who turns the world upside down when she gardens. She starts with the basics-- dirt first! Her philosophy is that if you do it right from the garden up and make it fun and easy, the garden will do the rest."--Jim Long, columnist for The Herb Companion and The Herb Quarterly magazines and author of books on herbs and history

"Pat Lanza is a true renaissance woman, always inventing new ways to tackle old tasks. One day she decided to try her lasagna method of soil improvement with herbs. Did it work? Of course! Her small garden produced prodigious harvests of delicious aromatic herbs! Carpe diem!"--Jim W. Wilson, horticulturist and author of numerous books, including Jim Wilson's Container Gardening

From the first paragraph of Lasagna Gardening with Herbs to the last, I felt as though I had finally found my soil sister. Pat Lanza writes and gardens with knowledge, passion, and a pioneer spirit. Her easy-to-implement tips, combined with her encyclopedic wisdom about plants and soil, make her book indispensable to both beginning and advanced gardeners. (Sharon Lovejoy, contributing editor of Country Living Gardener, a New York Times )

If Pat Lanza sometimes has dirty fingernails, it''s because she''s a writer with the hands-on, dig-in-the-dirt passion of a gardener. When she writes about gardening methods, you know she''s tried them. And with her discovery of lasagna gardening, she''s managed to make it easier for all of us. (Walter Chandoha, animal and garden photographer and author and illustrator of mo )

Pat Lanza is the only one I know who turns the world upside down when she gardens. She starts with the basics-- dirt first! Her philosophy is that if you do it right from the garden up and make it fun and easy, the garden will do the rest. (Jim Long, columnist for The Herb Companion and The Herb Quarterly magazines and )

Pat Lanza is a true renaissance woman, always inventing new ways to tackle old tasks. One day she decided to try her lasagna method of soil improvement with herbs. Did it work? Of course! Her small garden produced prodigious harvests of delicious aromatic herbs! Carpe diem! (Jim W. Wilson, horticulturist and author of numerous books, including Jim Wilson )

Product Description

Hang up your shovel and trowel! Now you can use the time (and money) you save laboring in your garden to actually enjoy it. Drawing on the amazingly simple layering sys-tem of gardening developed in her previous 'lasagna gardening' books, Patricia Lanza applies these principles to the ever-popular topic of growing herbs. Her organic, commonsense approach uses natural ingredients, close planting, and generous mulching, with little or no fancy equipment. Here she shares her homegrown methods, based upon almost 50 years of experience, to give readers tips on: lUsing more than 50 favorite herbs in recipes lMaking herbal wreaths and creating delicious herbal teas lUsing herbs for aromatherapy and potpourri lGrowing and using edible flowers This is the perfect book for all the busy people who want to reap the rewards of a garden but who lack the time, the energy, or the confidence to get down in the dirt. Accomplished and amateur gardeners alike will love this ingenious process that allows you to create beautiful, productive, low-maintenance herb gardens.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books (March 18, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087596897X
• ISBN-13: 978-0875968971
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #55,327 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth Trying ......., April 11, 2005

By	Stuart Gardner "www.sdgardner.com" (Fair Lawn, NJ) - See all my reviews

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First things first, this book was great fun to read. The author writes with passion on her subject and clearly has a great love of this topic. It really does shine through. The description of different herbs is workman like and covers off on all the kitchen herbs in everyday use.

The book is punctuated by some interesting recipes. Those that I have tried I like.

Now getting down in the dirt: lasagna gardening is a combination of using composted materials coupled with a layer of news papers between the soil and the compost to eliminate weeds. Preparing rich compost from kitchen waste is something I do already, the use of newspaper as a weed suppressant is something I would never of thought of (very logical though). I love the thought of minimal work.

In general herbs can do very well in dry sandy soil and will tolerate poor conditions. My main problems are countering winter cold.

The technique outlined should be great for raised bed and limited space gardening. I plan to try out the technique on a small area, for growing annual herbs. I plan to document my progress on my blog page (check out if interested):

http://mysite.verizon.net/herbgardeners/id1.html

Great book, well worth a read if you want to try something different. Very out of the box thinking.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gardening, February 8, 2009

By	tjpoplar (Grass Valley, CA United States) - See all my reviews

Lasagna gardening has become the way that my wife and I do our business. We have a small herb business and use this form of gardening exclusivley.

5.0 out of 5 stars Forest gardening at home, November 1, 2009

By	D. Martin "Great Green Guy" (Texas, Cali North Carolina) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Great reading, using the natural forest process to plant with nutritious soil at home....VERY NICE