Its Your Yard Gardening Mall

PAT MARFISI calls Esther Deans’ no-dig method of gardening “absurdly easy.” Here, he offers tips on where to buy alfalfa and straw and how to create a 300-square-foot vegetable garden, which took him only two hours to complete:
MATERIALS:
Newspaper, alfalfa, straw, compost, blood meal and bone meal.
BASICS:
1. Lay 10 to 20 sheets of newspaper on the [...]

By Lisa Boone
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
June 12, 2008
PAT MARFISI carries bales of alfalfa hay and straw into the center aisle of his Hollywood Hills vegetable garden and begins tearing off pieces of the stuff. He doesn’t have any animals to feed, just his “no-dig” landscape: raised beds using lasagna-like layers of fodder, bone and [...]