An area that's wet, low, needs draining, needed lime before it could farmed? Sounds to me like the last thing it needs is more moisture and more decaying organic material. It could be an acid soil, is what I'm getting at.

If I were you, I'd talk to a soil scientist or even a senior staff member at a local garden center. Otherwise, you could waste time and effort doing the wrong thing.

I used to own the book about lasagne gardening. It sounded good till I realized that the author didn't even reveal what part of the country she was in. I was wondering whether the newspaper, etc, would break down in Missouri's climate, which can get quite dry. I read the entire book and couldn't find anything on how much rain it would take to make her system work. To me that denotes an amateurish approach.