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Hi Darius, something I added to my layers was the big brown bags that are sold for bagging leaves. As I empty the leaves I've picked up all over the neighborhood, I cut open the brown bag for the next area I want to cover. Nice and large, easier to work with than the newspapers.
My new 10x4x2 foot veggie garden is going gang busters, and it was all filled in with lasagna layers. I lucked into bags and bags of bunny poop from a pet rabbit rescue, straw & pumpkins from halloween decorations. I poked in kitchen waste as I had it. Added to leaves, grass and newspapers, I didn't spend a dime filling this raised bed. Imagine how much soil would have been! It was over 3 feet deep at one point, now it is less than 2. I'll be adding to it all summer and fall.
Sounds wonderful! :) I hope to add to mine all summer after I get the juglone-tainted mulch removed. Grrrr.
I'm using cardboard from cut-up U-Haul hanging clothes containers in the 2nd half rather than newspaper. Sure wish I had a source for bagged leaves... I have a chipper/shredder.
To CATHY4: What are the brown bags that you mention? Are the bags paper or plastic? Here in southern Louisiana, all we have for leaves are large black plastic bags. Do plastic bags decompose in the layers? I thought that the problem with all our household wastes that wind up in landfills is that plastics do not decompose for decades or even longer. Please tell me more about your brown bags. Thanks for the info.
Russell, the bags we use for yard wastes are like extra large brown paper grocery bags. They can go right in the chipper with grass, leaves, small limbs, etc. No plastic allowed.
