thank you all for the nice comments, Shannon, all my garden beds are lasagna beds. IMO, lasagna gardening is one of the best , easiest ways to a productive garden. each year the lasagna garden beds just keep getting better. I wish you could have seen the soil where my garden is now. It was so poor, so hard that I could not even get a pick into the ground. So that's when I read about lasagna gardening. even all our flower beds are lasagna beds. you will get there with your garden and I wish you the best of luck