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Get rid of your grass and say goodbye to your lawn mower!

Lasagne Garden
Lasagne Garden without walls , built right onto the grass.
" One type of pollutant emitted by lawn mowers is polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). These are classified as probable carcinogens by the CDC. Testing found that operating a typical gasoline mower with a four-cycle engine produced as much PAH as driving a modern car about 150 km or about 95 miles. This means that unless you drive more than 95 mph, your mower actually produces more pollution per hour than your car! "
Green Grass Cutters You don't even have to pull up the sod. You can create a Lasagne Garden right over top of the grass...thick mulch or newsprint is the trick there.

Lasagne Gardening- Mother Earth News
Lasagne Gardening with Our Garden Gang
Kids' Gardening
Lots of Photos of how to Lasagne Garden at the Floyd Bennet Garden Assn.
Centipedes are our friends!
The benefits are far more than just getting rid of your lawnmower. The fruits and vegetables you can grow in this easy to maintain garden will keep your whole family...even your whole neighbourhood happy.

" You want to have a mixture of carbon-rich matter and nitrogen-rich matter, at about a 25:1 ratio. Common carbon-rich materials include leaves, newspaper, cardboard pieces, and dryer lint. For nitrogen, use grass clippings, algae, non-invasive weeds, and manure."
From Urban Gardening Casual
There will be a couple of demo gardens in Duncan soon. The city is considering not doing a Communities in Bloom Award for 2009, but a Communities in Vegetables Award!

Building a Lasagne Garden
The lawn before the garden was started Raised beds get built
The Lawn Before the Lasagne Garden Building the Raised Beds
Leves as mulch  
Adding paper, grass, leaves - raised beds and the foreground has cardboard/newspaper/leaves on top of the grass- foreground bed is not raised and will be used for lettuce, peas, beans. Adding peat


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