Dig gardens

PROMISES OF LESS WORK with more garden productivity often raise my suspicions as perhaps sounding too good to be true, except when the subject is no-dig gardening. The no-dig method of caring for our vegetable

A few weeks ago we blogged an article in the LA Times about No-Dig Gardens. They require less water than traditional gardens and they’re an easy way to start a raised bed. You can even start one right over a patch of grass you want to get rid of. Another easy gardening option is bringing the garden inside with grass you can grow indoors. Our friend and coworker, Hulda Nelson, tipped us off to the article.

Martha 🏳️‍🌈 |📍London on Instagram: "12 years ago when I started growing food, the common advice was to do a lot of digging. I had a clay allotment and I spent hours doing my back in digging heavy sticky soil. Thankfully those days are long behind me. No dig makes starting a new veg garden so much easier. For more info on no dig check out @charles_dowding and his amazing no dig veg garden. I’ve planted 3 varieties of gooseberry Hinnonmaki Green, Red and Yellow for a range of different…

The No Dig gardening method relies on roots, worms and fungi to do the hard work, that means you can give your back a rest! Don’t miss our BIG TIP on sourcing cardboard mulch!

As our first speaker of our series of winter talks, Stephanie Hafferty, author of The Creative Kitchen, will talk abotu her no dig journey and why no dig is so […]

A few weeks ago we blogged an article in the LA Times about No-Dig Gardens. They require less water than traditional gardens and they’re an easy way to start a raised bed. You can even start one right over a patch of grass you want to get rid of. Another easy gardening option is bringing the garden inside with grass you can grow indoors. Our friend and coworker, Hulda Nelson, tipped us off to the article.

'No Dig’ gardening, the ingenious, increasingly popular method pioneered by Englishman Charles Dowding, lets you make the most of your vegetable garden—without spending all your time weeding.

Respected British gardener, Charles Dowding and his approach to no-dig gardening presents a convincing case for an easier, more productive vegetable garden.

Charles Dowding, the pioneer and guru of no-dig gardening, shares three tips from the first chapter of his new book Charles Dowding's Skills For Growing: Sowing, Spacing, Planting, Picking, Watering and More