NO DIG Gardening Explained in 6 Minutes
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Concise and fantastic video.much appreciated sir
I certainly have no argument against no dig or other things mentioned (chop and drop, etc.), but most of my gardening years have been spent trying to deal with space issues (used nothing but grow bags one year – no lawn, but a big porch), and two really common problems: lack of decent sun and thus, lack of a good space for a hot compost pile. Long intro to say that I have found that spot "composting" directly into the soil (there's probably some fancy word for burying my veg/tea/coffee scraps in the dirt, but I don't know it) actually works really well, and amazingly fast in respect to attracting worms and building up the soil really well, and letting me compost materials all year.
I've been in a house now for 5 growing seasons, and the grassy area is getting smaller as the "garden" is getting larger (won't the landlord be surprised – ha), and I condition the new areas with buried matter: a deep hole with a spade, dump my bucket of material, bury, and make a new hole; the next season, the area is pretty prime garden soil and ready to go. Granted, eventually I'll run out of new space, and no, I don't believe that disturbing the soil once conditioned/turned into garden to bury more veg/etc. matter would be good. BUT, once I get enough garden space to have some fallow spot, I have an idea of converting one area each season into a quasi-raised bed by laying out veg material on top, and covering with saved leaves or other matter – sort of a roaming compost area. We'll see how that works, and if I can keep the critters from moving into the bed as a winter home.
Wood chips definitely, and leaf mulch/mold. If animals digging in your garden is not a problem, I would experiment with putting compostable materials directly on the soil surface and covering them up with some type of mulch(wood chips, leaves, straw, composted manures etc). If you just don't have enough time, space or allowance for a compost bin/ pile this may be option coupled with chop and drop to feed the soil microbes, worms, and ultimately you.
Long story but I have an area in my garden that's covered in old carpet, is it safe to leave it there and put a no dig raised bed ove the top? Or should I remove it all and place fresh cardboard as base layer for the new compost to go on top of? Thank you
He took a simple technique and did his best to make it sound complicated some people have a need for that
How do you find cheaper compost? Places near me charge $50/yard
This is the content I wish I known before I started my raised beds. Previous season I have put half compost half top soil to my raised beds and now I am adding extra layer of compost on top. I don't want to discard the mix will just keep adding nutrients and more compost. I hope that would work.
Awesome video, thank you!
I have nut grass weed.it makes no dig and every garden method extremely hard. Any tips for it? It’s impossible to get rid of…
Thank you. I am 64 with injuries. Starting second year no-dig. I can see it will get better and better. Hoping to check with city to see if they have free ground limbs to give away this year. I see some people being lucky with that. You don't want to purchase hay that has been treated with herbicides to use blessings.