Jardins Domaine Decelles

Gardening Workshop – “Lasagna” Compost
2025-11-08 10:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto)
Gardening Workshop —

On Saturday, November 8, 2025, join us for a hands-on workshop to learn how to make a lasagna-style compost!In this workshop, participants will help build a compost pile layer by layer, horse manure, freshly fallen leaves, and old compost, just like a lasagna!

After the lasagna compost is completed, the participants will be invited to a wine and cheese to celebrate the completion of the Lasagna Compost 2025!

Lasagna Compost
2024-11-23 10:00 - 15:00 | Jardins Domaine Decelles, 21 chemin Henri, Lac-Sainte-Marie, Quebec, J0X 1Z0, Canada
Description:

Saturday November 23, there will be a gardening workshop to show you how to make lasagna compost. In this workshop, you will help build compost that is made like a lasagna. We place a layer of horse manure, a layer of leaves from trees that have just fallen, and a layer of old compost, and we repeat to the top in thickness exactly like a lasagna.

The workshop will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m

Steps to Composting Tree Leaves by Layering with Manure Like Lasagna:

Pick up the leaves

Get Horse Manure Pile

Make current year Lasagna and use last year Lasagna

Like a Lasagna keep layering Manure/Leafs till the top

Layer a row of tree leaves

Layer a row of horse manure to cover leaves

Watering as needed based on dryness of leaves

Continue layering until all your leaves are covered

Bring your pile up high as it will shrink as it decomposes

Over the next 12 months worms & friends will break down leafs to compost

Use the Lasagna compost that you prepared last fall

Distribute the compost in the rows where you plant vegies

In the spring, plant your pumpkin on the pile to keep weeds off

Make sure it is wet, we use the water from our aquaponic!

Have Fun!
