Why You Shouldn't Dig Your Garden This Year, No matter what

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The no-dig movement – also known as (wait for it) lasagne gardening – has been steadily growing in popularity for a while now, and it's not hard to see why: it's one of the easiest ways to grow your own vegetables, fruit, herbs, flowers, and more at home.

'Gardeners have turned away from intensive cultivation, fertilisers and watering on a lavish scale,' says a spokesperson for the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).

Instead, they are embracing planet-friendly gardening techniques and trying to become 'increasingly in tune with nature' – and the no-dig movement, which allows us to preserve the soil structure and the organisms that live within, such as beneficial insects, absolutely fits in with this garden trend.

The no-dig movement

While you'll likely still want to learn how to make compost for this one, there's no denying that the no-dig movement offers up a pleasingly lazy approach to our favourite pastime (albeit without the visual disarray of chaos gardening).

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[Ozarks Tom]

When I change the sheep's diapers each night I make sure to carefully dump them on the compost pile, separate from the chicken/duck diapers as those don't mix well when fresh.

I wholeheartedly believe in the "no dig" method of gardening too. Why, loosening the soil to germinate seeds only adds to the painkiller addiction epidemic, and loosing methane inadvertently into the atmosphere.

There are so many new ways to garden that our ancestors couldn't even imagine. I can't imagine how they survived, sort of how they learned math without understanding that math is racist and Japanese beetles have rights too.

Ah, the wonders of modern society.

[solargeek]

No dig only works some of the time. 12 years of same soil in raised beds even with all the nifty inputs and organic this and that and lots of straw over it each winter and on and on, SOMETIMES you just need to till it to kill the weeds or aerate it (aka tilling).

But generally most of the time it is "no till is best'.

[laurazone5]

Kind of a click bait article.

Anyone who has gardened more than 10 min knows that as much as plants need sun, water, healthy soil.........the roots need O2.
Every try to grow in hard packed clay?

To 'loosen' the soil is one thing. And it is good.
To till the snot out of the soil, poison it with chemical, and never add one ounce or organic matter? That is bad.

If the soil dies, so do we.

[Jolly]

I row crop. In clay.

Amending the soil is great. I luv oak leaves as mulch. Cotton gin trash makes good garden compost. And a little lime is great.

But every so often, you better plow that clay or you'll get a hardpan that roots can't hardly penetrate.