"George.com" wrote in message
...
Has anyone experimented with, made use of, no dig gardening? I'm
interested
in your experiences and opinions, how you got started, successes or
failures
etc.

My definition of no dig involves:
minimal tillage of the soil, short of scratching the surface to sow seed
or
harvest root vegetables
leaving spent plants in place to degrade in the garden, add nutrients to
the
soil or self seed
using surface mulches to suppress weeds and add nutrients that slowly
leach
in to the soil
using green mulches like legumes or clover to add nitrogen to the soil
crop rotation to protect the integrity of the soil, for instance following
leafy plants with root crops etc

Thanks in advance for your contribution

rob

We operate a no dig policy for the whole garden, started as a way of
avoiding disturbing the subsoil which is very high in arsenic but we quickly
found things grew better and we had less weeds (and a lot less slug and
snail damage - except underground with potatoes)
We use a shredder and everything goes back on green i.e. uncomposted. Been
doing it 20+ years with no problems (but I do have thin poor soil)

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)