Why Are You Digging??? Let's talk about no dig.

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Published 2022-05-09

Disclaimer- this is just my takes, based on MY EXPERIENCE. I've moved around a lot and gardened in many different places. Sheet mulching is fantastic if you can be somewhere long term and have years to wait while perennial weeds die under layers of mulch you've managed to source; but if you don't know how long you're going to be somewhere, digging can allow for a shortcut. Moving forward I plan to keep these beds in a no-dig state, mulching each year with compost. But I simply don't have the necessary amounts of compost to do that this year.

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00:00 Introduction
00:16 No Dig aint working for me right now
01:48 Traditional digging
02:40 Weeds weeds weeds
03:24 My technique and results

All Comments (2)

@difonzobanjo7132 2 years ago

I am so sorry that it took me two days to comment on this. I have an endless supply of cardboard, and have had good luck with nasty perennials even if I need to double-layer it. But, one area I had poke (is there pokeweed in England?) and honeysuckle vines and bindweed, so I did a thing where I watered it heavily, then put clear plastic over it for an entire summer. The plants came up, then cooked inside on sunny days. The next spring, I put cardboard down on the edges, but just some compost straight on top of the ground in the middle. Two years later, there are no weeds there. But this technique depends on enough sun to really bake the weeds. The only weed I have been digging out of my cardboarded areas is violets of all things! They grow right through the cardboard!