Try Our Tips to Get Started with No-Till Gardening
Gardening can be hard work. Every year you pull out the tiller and plow through the rock and weed filled ground to make it loose enough to plant in. In addition there are tasks like amending the soil, planting, watering, and weeding among other tasks.
For some people it just begins to take too much time, or too much energy.
I used to plant my garden the old-fashioned way too. I would put in all that effort and my harvest would be mediocre at best. I would always be disappointed, but I would continue to plant year after year. It is in the blood you see.
My father’s family line is full of yeoman farmers who made their living from working their own land, some more successfully than others. I just can’t stop myself from growing things.
Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding!
A few years ago I stumbled upon a book entitled “Lasagna Gardening” (available from Amazon) that swore that you could garden without tilling.
It also claimed that this technique would reduce the amount of watering and weeding that you would be necessary. This method is also referred to as layer or no-dig gardening.
Gardening with less work? That sounded good to me, so I decided to give it a try. I was amazed with the results. In my first year I had an abundance of yellow squash, zucchini, cucumbers, and pumpkins.
The year after that I grew enormous amounts of acorn squash, okra, zucchini and other summer squash, Greek pepperoncini, and tomatoes.
The tomatoes were the clincher for me that this form or gardening works. Prior to lasagna gardening I was hopeless with tomatoes.
I would follow tip after tip, and even if I got the plants to survive
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