Product Description
A gardening system that works– so you don’t have to!
Turn in your tiller for a stack of old newspapers! Replace your shovel with a layer of grass clippings! Let Pat Lanza show you how you can create lush, successful, easy-care gardens in practically any location without hours of backbreaking digging or noisy tilling.
* Practical, first-person advice from an experienced gardener
* Great ideas to let you spend more time enjoying your gardens and less… More >>
I was sooooo excited to hear of Patricia Lanza’s new, improved method of gardening, I rushed right out and tried it. I wish I hadn’t. It’s a half baked method and my results were anything but well done.
Lanza is mostly into herbs and vegetables, there’s not much in her book about landscaping. But, I didn’t care about raising my own rutabagas. What I wanted was a ground cover bed of English ivy, so I installed a lasagna garden of ivy. It looked nice for a few days; then we had wind. The peat moss and newspaper blew off. Sheets of newspaper blowing down the street turned our block into Litterbug Lane — a big mess!
Lanza writes like a neighbor gossiping over the backyard fence. She just goes on and on about how wonderful her gardens are, but outside of her poorly-documented experience, there’s not much helpful information.
Sorry to say, the lasagna method is half baked and doesn’t work down here in the Florida sea breezes. (And it’d be even worse in Texas, where the winds blow even harder.)
Lanza’s garden “recipe” is a flop. I cannot recommend it or the book.
Rating: 1 / 5
The book was great and I got it for 1/2 the cost of any where else.
Rating: 5 / 5
Ordered this book as a gift because the receiver truly enjoyed reading our copy. Excellent.
Rating: 5 / 5
I am very pleased with the timeliness which I received these books. The books were in excellent condition.
Rating: 5 / 5
I am new to gardening (I have started vegi gardening April 2001) and this book gave me a lot of easy information about gardening it has a great part about herbs and the easy language it is written in also the way the author writes feels like a friend is speaking to me I liked the book very much and I was waiting for her new book and I am buying one.
Rating: 5 / 5