Dig gardens

If you've been curious about no till gardening, this is for you! After 15 years, I this is my take on the no till gardening pros and cons!

Surely you'll need to dig when starting a new vegetable garden? Well, no actually. As I'm about to reveal there is an easier way that requires significantly less hard graft – just plenty of well-rotted organic matter...

No Dig Garden! Did it actually work? In the Spring I created a ‘No Dig’ or a ‘No Till Garden’. The purpose of using this method when creating new gardens is to not disturb the soil and suppress weed growth. The big question is …. Does it actually work? Check out my video to see what this garden looks like 3 months after it was created! You may just be surprised! #nodiggarden #notillgardening

PROMISES OF LESS WORK with more garden productivity often raise my suspicions as perhaps sounding too good to be true, except when the subject is..

I winced a bit as I watched my partner lower the spinning tines into the soil in our garden. Dark, brown earth immediately turned up behind him as he walked next to the lumbering rototiller.

Some organic gardeners use the non-cultivation method which is called no-dig gardening. No one knows when no-dig gardening started, maybe it is related to nineteenth-century…

A few weeks ago we blogged an article in the LA Times about No-Dig Gardens. They require less water than traditional gardens and they’re an easy way to start a raised bed. You can even start one right over a patch of grass you want to get rid of. Another easy gardening option is bringing the garden inside with grass you can grow indoors. Our friend and coworker, Hulda Nelson, tipped us off to the article.

Mother Nature doesn’t use a spade! It’s no wonder, then, that the practice of ‘no-dig’ or ‘no-till’ gardening is gaining ground with gardeners across the world.

Put away the tiller and build healthy soil to grow productive gardens using compost or mulch with no-dig gardening.