Winding down for winter in the Lasagna Garden

We haven't had any hard frosts yet, but they are just around the corner here in zone 5. We're enjoying the squash, melons, and the second planting of spinach. I meant to plant more greens, but didn't get to it. Oh well, always next year -- the gardener's mantra. I'll keep working at building the beds up with available materials, ending with a deep mulch of fall leaves. I also found a recipe for an organic fertilizer from the book, "Gardening When It Counts". I am going to try to find the ingredients to make some to help keep the fertility of my soil up next year and to apply in a larger, more conventional new garden that I hope to create next Spring.

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[allotmentrhys]

hey are you going to do any update videos ?

[Michigansnowpony]

@allotmentrhys -- Hi, yes, there's already two of them for this year for the lasagna beds.. They're just not labelled "lasagna garden". We'll also be planting a traditional, non-raised bed, rowed garden this year. (Welcome to my channel by the way!) : )

[ExmoorMist]

do those white moths have catapillars that love cabbages?

we had a plague of them this year devastation.. neem oil sorted it out tho...

regards

rob

[Michigansnowpony]

Yes -- those little white butterflies are the ones that come from the cabbage worms! The best product you can buy to get rid of them is actually organic: It's a powder containing Bacillus thuringiensis. You mix it with water and spray it on your leaves. The catepillars munch on it and it gives them a disease. After a day or two, they all turn black and die! The trick is to spray it at the first signs of infestation as it takes a day or two to work.

[ivankinsman]

Nice melons - out of interest, do you buy seed and when do you plant - honeydew and water? We will try some next year as I would really like to have some...

[Michigansnowpony]

Hi Ivan and Magda, I bought the muskmelon (honeydew) as plants and started the watermelons from seed. This was not a "normal" year, so everything was late. Normally, I'd plant melon plants the first week in May, but this year was too cold.  I am planning on starting all my own plants this year, and will do so about January / February. We're in zone 5, if that helps at all with comparing to your growing season there in Poland. : )

[zwink9]

The sound of children in school lol! Thank you for documenting your lasagna garden it has been a great help to refer to it while creating mine.

[allotmentrhys]

i have started growing for the first time this year so i will try to make a few videos of its progress

[ivankinsman]

Thx Renee. I think we will try the same next year. IWe are considering getting a plastic tunnel for this sort of veg. - and maybe tomatoes, aubergine. Think its inexpensive and could make a big difference.

[SPCkeith]

hey i live in west TN and im wanting to get some peas and lettuce and such only problem is frost. now i know these are cold weather plants so could i cover with say a tarp and keep the frost of them? or is all hope really lost for growing in the winter? thanks for any tips.

P.s. i im going to do this in a raised bed so i can cover with a tarp easily i just want to know if its worth doing before in put my time into planting

thanks