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.
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Hi Charles / All,
Our plot has many very large ash, oak, sycamore and other trees.
At this time of year there are thousands of leaves coming off the trees.
Would you clear these uncomposted leaves from no dig beds and compost them or leave them where they landed?
Also are there any issues with adding lots (ie builders bags full) of leaves into compost heaps? Layered with the other ingredients of course.
Rob
