How to begin and how to continue: no dig is a simple method but the details vary according to your climate, start point, what you grow and materials to hand.
Read more »Based on his 35 years of growing beautiful vegetables, flowers, and fruit, Charles writes and illustrates the skills you need, such as his sowing timeline.
Read more »Day courses at Homeacres show the path to easier gardening and include Steph’s feast of vegetables; also weekend intensive courses, and days at other venues.
Read more »Charles has written nine acclaimed and popular books about organic, no dig gardening, for healthier soil and plants, fewer weeds and intensive cropping of small areas.
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Hi Charles/all
We are lucky enough to have just taken on one of a dozen or so brand new allotments that have been created on a housing development built on land that was previously farmland. The allotments have been rotivated and there are some perennial weeds that need clearing but the soil looks pretty good.
My questions are: a) would you tread the soil to compact it a bit before spreading the compost/manure, b) how thick a layer of compost and/or cardboard (or similar) would you suggest, and c) any other tips?
Many thanks
