https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u79tiVcj8bY
I want this garden. Even a mini version, enough for us, would be fine.
What a beautiful set-up! Cardboard has always been my friend!
My Mom had the AWESOME idea to lay roofing shingles (sheets of them) between the rows of all of my raised beds, and it’s working amazingly well to keep down the weeds. We put them ‘gritty side up’ so you have decent purchase even when wet. Solved her problem of getting rid of a big stack of old shingles she had, (she had a metal roof put on her house last year) and she also went to a local lumber yard and they gave her another stack for FREE from a broken bag they had.
She’s a sweet-talker, that one! She also got me my first greenhouse for $500 when it was a $3K set up! Lumber yard was going out of business and it was their floor model. They even delivered it to me, just to be rid of it!
Anyhow, ANY system that fights weeds and improves the soil by not tilling, is a winner. Those crops look fantastic! I haven’t tilled my raised beds (I use a thick layer of straw as mulch) in 5 years now, and I have tons of earthworms and other ‘good stuff’ in there.
We have heavy clay soil and I want to try the no dig method.
We have lots of cardboard. We also have lots of brahpnches to chip up.
However, my compost bins are not going to give me enough to put down a thick layer.
We live where we can get a fair amount of manure.
So how do I go about doing this cardboard, mulch, wood chips thing?