Lasagna Gardening

Today's lesson was lasagna gardening.  The class learned how a garden plot can be made by layering nitrogen/green and carbon/brown materials like grass clippings, dried leaves, compost, peat moss.  As the organic matter decomposes, it forms a rich compost that feeds the plants.

We worked in the gardens today until the rain started and everyone got wet!

Always weeding to do!

Rachel's purple pepper

Some wet gardeners!

We went back outside after the rain.  The young gardeners made their own lasagna gardens and planted snap pea seeds in them.  Then they helped layer materials in a larger lasagna garden.  We'll watch the layers decompose throughout the summer. 

making individual lasagna gardens

layering materials in the lasagna garden