Comments on: How to Create Drainage in a Lasagna Garden? http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-to-create-drainage-in-a-lasagna-garden/ Help with Your Blocked Drainage Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:29:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Judy B http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-to-create-drainage-in-a-lasagna-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-211 Judy B Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:01:08 +0000 http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-to-create-drainage-in-a-lasagna-garden/#comment-211 What is under the layers? Do you have heavy clay under it that retained the water? Or did you build the bed with slow to break down, water retentive materials? Usually a raised bed like a lasagna garden drains just fine. If you have very heavy clay soil, you may need to dig compost or other organic material and some sand into the underlying clay. You shouldn't need to dig it up and replace the soil. If you suspect clay under the bed, roto-till the lasagna layers into the underlying clay along with some sand and compost (aim for 1/3 soil 1/3 sand, 1/3 compost). What is under the layers? Do you have heavy clay under it that retained the water? Or did you build the bed with slow to break down, water retentive materials? Usually a raised bed like a lasagna garden drains just fine. If you have very heavy clay soil, you may need to dig compost or other organic material and some sand into the underlying clay.

You shouldn’t need to dig it up and replace the soil. If you suspect clay under the bed, roto-till the lasagna layers into the underlying clay along with some sand and compost (aim for 1/3 soil 1/3 sand, 1/3 compost).

]]> By: Cat http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-to-create-drainage-in-a-lasagna-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Cat Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:29:05 +0000 http://www.drainages.co.uk/how-to-create-drainage-in-a-lasagna-garden/#comment-210 Making a raised bed it the easiest way to deal with drainage issues. Find materials to use as the borders - timbers, concrete blocks, whatever will hold the organic materials. Then layer your garden "up" in the space there. It should drain well, being above the surrounding soil level, even in the most "wet" times of the year. Making a raised bed it the easiest way to deal with drainage issues. Find materials to use as the borders – timbers, concrete blocks, whatever will hold the organic materials. Then layer your garden “up” in the space there. It should drain well, being above the surrounding soil level, even in the most “wet” times of the year.

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