For those who can’t, or don’t feel like, tilling, there is another way to garden: lasagna-style, and it’s just as easy as it is delicious sounding. Lasagna gardening is a method of building soil from the ground up, instead of in the ground below. A gardener need only find a plot of unused, sunny land and start laying down layers of mulch, compost, and straw to create a raised bed of premium gardening soil.