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Diggin It: No Dig Gardening

Posted By TipNut On April 21, 2009 @ 1:02 pm In Garden & Plants | 1 Comment

Harvest From No Dig Garden By treehugger.com
Today’s feature is from Tree Hugger with Try No Dig Gardening For Your Backyard Vegetables [1]:

No-Dig Gardening is such a brilliant form of home-based agriculture I was convinced the TreeHugger archives would be rich with its merits. Was very surprised when I only found one mention, in a post chronicling Leonora’s permaculture adventures in New Zealand.

So I launched into the following first-person account of No-Dig, only to discover that in North America the same process might be better known as as Sheet Mulching. Nomenclature aside, it’s worth covering the topic again. Especially if you want to grow your own veggies for a little food security.

The article is rich in information starting with a bit of background on the No-Dig method of gardening then jumping right into step-by-step details showing how to build this gardening system from the ground up (Bonus: lotsa pics).

The idea is to make a foundation of compost/mulch then only use soil where you plant (make a hole in the mulch, stick a handful or two of dirt inside then plant the seedling). This saves on the amount of soil needed and the backbreaking work of planting/seeding/maintaining a large traditional dirt garden (weed growth is greatly reduced). I’m not too familiar with this method of gardening but the plants have all the soil they need to flourish and it’s ideal for moisture and weed control. According to feedback you can practise this No-Dig method with Herb Spirals [2] (the second video shows an example using a soil-less or no-dig method) and Potato Boxes [3].

Please visit the site above for all the details, very interesting!
Also See These Tips:

* How To Make A Self-Contained Gardening System [4]
* Grow 100 lbs. Of Potatoes In 4 Square Feet: How To [3]
* Creative Container Gardening: Tips & Ideas [5]

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URLs in this post:

[1] Try No Dig Gardening For Your Backyard Vegetables: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/try-no-dig-gardening-for-your-backyard-vegetables.php

[2] Herb Spirals: http://tipnut.com/herb-spiral/

[3] Potato Boxes: http://tipnut.com/grow-potatoes/

[4] How To Make A Self-Contained Gardening System: http://tipnut.com/how-to-make-a-self-contained-gardening-system/

[5] Creative Container Gardening: Tips & Ideas: http://tipnut.com/creative-container-gardening-tips-ideas/