Time To Think About Lasagna In Your Garden

The month of September often rolls through to the end of October in the flash of an eye. It gets so busy with Back-to-School and the change of the summer routine, that first frost arrives and I have not planted my bulbs for spring colour.

I have seen this technique before but did not know it had a name or nickname. It is called Lasagna Planting. You take one large pot and start at the bottom with the bulbs that will flower last (like tulips). Place them in the pot and add some soil, then add the bulbs that will flower before the tulips (like daffodils) then add one or two more layers ending with the flowers that will flower first (like crocus).

The challenge will be to do the planting in the fall, but make sure that the container does not fill with fall rains such that when it freezes it cracks the container.

This year I will give it a try but with an old container so I have nothing to lose.