 Hello and welcome to the channel. So I was just out here in the evening starting to plant up some of my perennials and some different flowers Some different pollinators that I want to plant here in my lasagna Garden bed, which is located pretty close to my garden here And I thought I'd better do some filming and capture what I'm doing so I can share it with you Because this year I'm very excited to have another watering plan For this area. It was really tough to keep it watered and The flowers didn't do so well the perennials Always struggle in my yard a lot of them never make it through the winter But every spring I try again and got a bunch here that I want to try planting up So what I've done is I purchased a 50-foot soaker hose here and I got it all connected and ready to roll but what I'm doing is I'm just I laid it all out here in my Garden bed Turned it on just to see how it works and it's you can see there's still some Water here, but yeah, it just seeps out water and as you can see it spreads pretty quickly So I'm hopeful that this is gonna be Helpful to my garden this summer and things will grow. This is my Very pathetic sunflower patch that's gotten attacked by some kind of bug that's been eating the leaves I've had that happen to my lettuces already too. I think it's a flea beetle So I did throw some D earth Sprinkled some around here, and it seemed to have stopped the problem But I think I need to keep on top of that I'm gonna be losing a lot of my little leafy greens this year So I'm gonna just start planting and kind of keep the plants close to where this Hoses laying so that they're gonna get the moisture and just kind of use that as my guide And just get planting Okay, so I have been adding in some flowers Leftover annuals that I didn't have room for in my pots. I've been just throwing them in the ground here I got a bunch of perennials planted up. I got some seeds planted here and there So I'm just basically looking for little spots Where I can stick some more plants in And this is one of my winter sowing jugs here. This is chamomile This always does really well In the winter sowing method for me. So I'm going to stick some of that in this spot right here right now So I've got my Hori Hori knife here, which works great for digging in to these spots In the lasagna garden you have lots of layers of different materials that I've been piling on over the past couple years I'm just going to try and make a good spot here for All this chamomile to go in And like I say, I'm always trying to keep it in line with the soaker hose here So it'll get watered This is great for digging out You know small roots and stuff as well So usually I just try to keep it. I'm not going to try and separate this. I don't think Should come out fairly easy See there's a lot of roots Happening there I did plant these fairly thick in the winter sowing jugs, but I'm just going to break it up a little bit Try to spread it out Give those roots some room to grow. I'm just going to add a little bit more of my Potting soil mix that I made up and I'll just push back some of these this mulch Just to cover it up Once I think I got enough stuff here in my lasagna garden bed, then I will Do some mulching There's always going to be quack grass coming up, but It's very easy to maintain. You just keep piling on more materials. I don't worry too much about weeding You'll never win the battle against quack grass. That's for sure I like to grow chamomile and mint in my lasagna garden bed every year picking it throughout the summer and drawing it to make tea or to use in my skincare products So I received these Watson gardening gloves for Mother's Day gift this year and I absolutely love them I never realized what a difference it made having good quality gardening gloves These gloves really fit well. They are water resistant and Whenever they do get wet they dry out really fast as you can see I've been giving them a really good workout already this season And one great thing about them also is that they are made from 96 percent recycled pep bottles So 1 500 mil bottle is used to make one pair of gloves So as I said, I got quite a few things planted up here in my lasagna garden bed and as you can see the quack grass likes to creep its way in It's always an ongoing battle But I'm going to show you how I going to use my lawn mower with the mulcher to Do some mulching here on the edge and try to keep that quack grass at bay This is what it looks like after I have done my borders with grass clippings. This is how I edge my lasagna garden bed those grass clippings will form a nice matte and Hopefully keep the quack grass at bay doesn't really look great, but I Think over time all the flowers will start growing Spreading out and the color will kick in and you won't even notice What's on the ground? So over the next month or so as things start to grow and blossom. I'll probably be adding more Flowers who knows what you can find at the greenhouse at the end of the season That you might want to bring back home and stick into your garden Dried leaves wood chips straw. Hey all those materials work great To just put around your plants keep the weeds down And over time all that material just breaks down adds more organic matter to the soil and Just makes a great place for Flowers to grow. So I hope you enjoyed watching me set up and maintain my lasagna garden bed for another season Please hit that like button leave a comment and if you haven't already done so hit that subscribe button So you don't miss out on future videos coming to the channel Thanks for watching. Happy gardening