No-Dig Gardening

[nagev]

Does anyone have any experience with no-dig gardening or interest or read about it?

I've been interested, but so far I have not done that with my garden.

Just curious if there's anyone else interested or to hear other people's experiences.

[Vinnie]

This has a few articles about no-dig.

http://www.veganorganic.net/search?searchword=no+dig

[nagev]

Yeah, I have a book on it, and there are bits in some of my other organic gardening books on no-dig gardening. I was just curious if anyone here is done it.

[Gliondrach]

No. But I would do gardening the no-dig way. Strangely enough, there was a new telly programme on this evening about being as self-sufficient as possible in growing food in your own garden. And they showed a family who have been growing the permaculture way for 20 years.

Robert Hart's book The Forest Garden is very good. It's only A5 size and about 30 pages but packed with goodness - a bit like a forest garden.

The woman who presented the programme grows peas as salad vegetables. She plants dried peas - that she bought 2 years earlier - closely together in pots and eats the leaves when they are a few inches high. I didn't know they were edible. You lives and learns.

[nagev]

Cool. Sounds like an interesting program, eventually I'd like to get to be self-sufficient as possible (grow most of my own food). :)

I do have that book (The Forest Garden), I also have "Organic Gardening The Natural No-Dig Way" by Charles Dowding. Good material, although there's some stuff in there about the Moon.

[Gliondrach]

Biodynamic gardening? Rudy Steiner's methods. Some people swear by them. Some people swear at them.

[nagev]

Is that a question? However, I'm not too sure about biodynamic gardening.

[Gliondrach]

I was just replying to your reference about the moon. There might be something in it - the moon affects the sea and plants have water in them.

[nagev]

Yeah, that's the gist of what's in that book. I think it's a confused idea, but then maybe it's just that I'm confused. :)

[Gliondrach]

Forest Gardening with Robert Hart

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And lots of other permaculture/forest gardening videos there.

[Gliondrach]

The Vegan Organic Network has some information on the following subjects. Each opens with a description and a link to a PDF. The PDF is the article that goes into depth.

1. Propagation and Fertilizers
2. Growing beans for drying
3. Growing on clay soils
4. Vegan Organic Growing- the Basics
5. Garden Fungi FAQ
6. Gardening for Wildlife
7. the Vegan Organic Growers Guide To Beetles
8. Green Manures
9. Chipped Branch Wood
10. Composting

http://www.veganorganic.net/information-sheets/

There is also the North American Veganic Agriculture Network:

http://www.goveganic.net/

The area they cover includes Canada, The US and Mexico.

[nagev]

Cool. It looks like a lot of good information there.