Cone technique - no dig

[dave45]

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?

[diggernotdreamer]

That sounds like something John Yeoman would have expounded in a book called the Lazy Kitchen Gardener, I lent my copy to Doofaloofa

[becks77]

Could make for an interesting project
Do you weed out the weeds or do they stay too?

[doofaloofa]

I will go directly to the bookshelf

[diggernotdreamer]

I will go directly to the bookshelf

We await your report with interest

[dave45]

Spot on DND - cheers

and here it is online and in a new edition by the looks http://www.gardeningguild.org/resources ... Grower.pdf