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Time to get serious about building a veggie garden

Last week, I posted a video of Scott Meyer, editor at Organic Gardening Magazine, giving step-by-step instructions for creating a new garden bed on top of a lawn. The timing of finding the video couldn’t have been more perfect for me because we are currently building a fenced-in veggie garden that will have four 4X8-foot raised beds.

hens foragingThe technique of building up the soil directly on your existing lawn is a fantastic way to build a veggie bed because 1) it’s less work not having to dig out the grass, and 2) it allows you to keep the nutritious top soil in place.

So here’s the process of layering in banana leaves, soil, compost and hay– kind of like lasagna!

We’ll let it sit for a couple of months while it all breaks down into the perfect medium for veggies, just in time to plant in the spring.

P.S. The hens are enjoying their time in here while they can. Soon there will be a fence all around the new garden: The veggie buffet will be closed to all chickens!

Raised-bed

helpers

banana leaves

add soil

add hay and compost

top layer of banana leaves

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