Many moons ago (pre-internet) I borrowed a library book that expounded a technique for growing veggies on any ground whatsoever.
AIRI it involved no digging at all. Instead it used a metal rod that you bashed into the ground and rotated to make a cone-shaped hole. You filled it with some copyright compost mixture plus a seed/seedling and left it alone.... eventually the cones and compost would take over your garden and bring forth multitudinous good stuff. ....
I've always remembered it but never given it a go ... is it worth a try? is my memory faulty?
Cone technique - no dig
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Re: Cone technique - no dig
That sounds like something John Yeoman would have expounded in a book called the Lazy Kitchen Gardener, I lent my copy to Doofaloofa
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Re: Cone technique - no dig
Could make for an interesting project
Do you weed out the weeds or do they stay too?
Do you weed out the weeds or do they stay too?
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Re: Cone technique - no dig
I will go directly to the bookshelf
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We await your report with interestdoofaloofa wrote:I will go directly to the bookshelf
Re: Cone technique - no dig
Spot on DND - cheers
and here it is online and in a new edition by the looks http://www.gardeningguild.org/resources ... Grower.pdf
and here it is online and in a new edition by the looks http://www.gardeningguild.org/resources ... Grower.pdf