Easy Veggies - Embrace ‘No dig’ gardening
As a vegetarian something I always wanted to do was to grow my own organic vegetables, fruits and cooking herbs. Now that I finally had my own garden I decided to do just that. 'No dig' gardening I started looking at the easiest way that I could start my vegetable garden as a beginner gardener and I came across the ‘No dig’ method. This method simply means gardening without digging over the plot repeatedly each year, minimising disturbance to the soil. The steps are: choose the spot where you want to grow your vegetables remove/smother weeds get some cardboard (I used cardboard boxes from recent postal deliveries and made sure I removed any staples, plastic tape and labels) cover the area of soil where you are planting with layers of cardboard. Make sure you overlap your layers so that weeds have less opportunity to get through in the future Put organic compost on top of your layers of cardboard. That’s it! You are ready to start planting your...