Lasagna Garden
Right now our new raised beds are covered with freeze cloths to protect them from our cold weather. Although we did not have a successful summer or fall garden (at one point in October the soil temperature was 100 degrees), the winter garden is looking much better. Before they were covered a few days ago, the beds held radishes, carrots, peppers, onions, cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli, Swiss chard, kale, several kinds of lettuce, cilantro, parsley, rosemary, Mexican mint marigold, several kinds of basil lemon verbena, sage, thyme, blackberry bushes, sugar snap peas, sweet peas, blue and white mistflowers, and two tomato vines. We'll see what survives the freeze. Meanwhile...with the help of the Wilson County Extension Master Gardeners, we have completed the construction of a lasagna garden in front of The Bee and the Clover. It's called a lasagna garden, because it has layers like a lasagna, Our intent is to plant a demonstration garden of fragrant, white native plants. The...