Complete Guide to No-Dig Gardening: Grow beautiful vegetables, herbs, and flowers - the easy way! Layer Your Way to Healthy Soil-Eliminate tilling and digging-Build a productive garden naturally-Reduce weeding and watering

No-dig gardening is a simple approach to creating a lush, productive vegetable, herb, and flower garden that requires no endless hours of time or energy. By adding layers of organic matter using no-dig techniques, you can build healthy, easy-to-plant garden soil and grow more food and blooms than ever before. This method also leads to reduced watering needs and a healthy population of beneficial soil microbes. Author and veggie-growing expert Charlie Nardozzi provides step-by-step instructions to help you create a new no-dig garden, transition an existing garden to the no-dig method, build the most productive soil possible, recycle yard waste, and more.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 15 December 2020
Publisher: Cool Springs Press

A lush, productive vegetable, herb, and flower garden doesn't have to require endless hours of time and unlimited energy. No-dig gardening methods let you keep the rototiller in the shed and focus on what you like best—planting and harvesting! With the step-by-step instructions in The Complete Guide to No-Dig Gardening, you'll discover how to build healthy, easy-to-plant garden soil by adding layers of organic matter using one of several different no-dig techniques. Whether you garden in a small, urban backyard or on several acres in the country, this simple approach lets you grow more food and blooms than ever before, and leave the gas-guzzling tiller behind forever. Plus, when you don't disturb the soil, weed seeds stay buried deep where they can't germinate, and carbon is kept sequestered in the ground. No-dig gardening techniques also lead to reduced watering needs and a healthy population of beneficial soil microbes that help feed your plants by breaking down organic matter and releasing nutrients. In addition to extolling the endless benefits of no-dig growing, author and veggie-growing expert Charlie Nardozzi hands you the tools you need to: Create a new no-dig garden from scratch Transition an existing garden to the no-dig method Build the most productive, nutrient-rich soil possible Recycle yard waste by building a Hugelkultur planting mound Discover more about some great variations of no-dig gardening, including raised beds and containers Bring your no-dig garden indoors for a continuous harvest Welcome oodles of fresh, homegrown veggies, herbs, and flowers into your life—with no back-breaking work required!

Weight: 380g
Dimension: 171 x 248 x 11 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780760367919