Thought I'd post a few pics of my no dig garden experiment.
So far I'm really impressed, we we able to plant many different veggies and mixed a lot of the plants together instead of making rows of the same. The purpose of this is pest control. It definitely helped. We also mulched everything with wood chips and this controls the weeds, keeps the moisture and lowers soil temperature. Have not done any weeding to speak of and I love it. (I hate weeding LOL)
So far we had a ton of lattice, been eating zucchini for a week now, cucumbers are starting to produce now. A few strawberries but not much, gooseberries almost ready, corn nearly to my shoulder. Potatoes doing well.
Onions are huge
Lots of other stuff as well...
I will be selling the tiller as I see no need for it now. It seem that things are growing much better without it. In fact, I'd say it's the best garden we've ever had and we hardly had to do any work, just plant and mulch and pick!
Thanks for looking, please post your garden pics/tips if you wish.
Oh, and happy 4th of July everyone!
So far I'm really impressed, we we able to plant many different veggies and mixed a lot of the plants together instead of making rows of the same. The purpose of this is pest control. It definitely helped. We also mulched everything with wood chips and this controls the weeds, keeps the moisture and lowers soil temperature. Have not done any weeding to speak of and I love it. (I hate weeding LOL)
So far we had a ton of lattice, been eating zucchini for a week now, cucumbers are starting to produce now. A few strawberries but not much, gooseberries almost ready, corn nearly to my shoulder. Potatoes doing well.
Onions are huge
Lots of other stuff as well... I will be selling the tiller as I see no need for it now. It seem that things are growing much better without it. In fact, I'd say it's the best garden we've ever had and we hardly had to do any work, just plant and mulch and pick!
Thanks for looking, please post your garden pics/tips if you wish.
Oh, and happy 4th of July everyone!
Excellent plot of veggies! Like that better than square foot gardening.
