Woodchip potatoes follow-on crop. I cleared plant-pot sized holes in the woodchip layer. I filled with compost and planted. You can see this most easily with the leeks. But I’ve done the same with purple sprouting broccoli, and just planted some pak choi and mustards that way today.

This because I’m making new #NoDig beds using woodchip instead of some of the compost.

@GreenishFinger Lovely photos! Do you follow #NoDig #CharlesDowding ?

Charles Dowding’s compost making (new video)

https://youtu.be/MCftXbye1AA

#compost

#NoDig

@gardening

@compost

@ahermitforhire @BsCreativeLife Could you go #NoDig ?

“What’s for dinner?” they say
🤷‍♀️ beans again?
#GrowYourOwn #Veganic #NoDig #Permaculture

Composting update - I'm sticking to the heap with a tarp over it to keep the rain off.
Charles Dowding said it should be fine so I'm running with it.

#Compost #NoDig #GardeningMastodon

Tour of “Homeacres”, in Southern England where Charles Dowding, No Dig gardening pioneer & populariser, grows his stuff

End. Tag list follows:
#NoDig
#GrowYourOwn
#CharlesDowding
#gardening

https://youtu.be/kNQvtmCjZ24

@stfn Ok, personally I prefer organic mulch to green mulch. Are you planning to dig it over? I would recommend researching #NoDig it makes such a difference and really drops weed germination. If the land can work for you and improve that’s a win-win. The broad beans will crop and improve the soil!

Scenes from the #NoDig64N #NoDig garden at 64°N.

A very dry and windy spring made it difficult for our broccolis and cauliflowers to get bedded in. A little earlier than expected, I’ve been harvesting ‘Miranda’ broccoli for blanching and freezing. 8 x 200g bags now tucked away in the freezer for when the snow is thick on the ground.

So lovely to have #homegrown vegetables for dinner #today. Potatoes, carrots and green beans from the #garden. Then there's gooseberries from the garden in a crumble for pudding. Sorry about the lack of a photo, I tucked in and forgot!
#GrowYourOwn #nodig

Grateful today for the abundance in our #desert #backyard. The #harvest includes plantago and sand cherries which many people do not know are edible.

#gardening #GardenToTable #NoDig #Compost #Gratitude

It's been a tough day #today, my medication related #fatigue has got the best of me, which probably means the rest of the week will be fine (I'm not moaning or feeling sorry for myself, it's something that happens from time to time and I just have to roll with it).

I did manage to tidy my 6'x4' #nodig bed a bit, removing salad crops which had gone to seed. The radish seed pods turned out to be very tasty (maybe it's worth growing radishes for these alone?) plus I pulled some lovely carrots.

Decent harvest today, strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries & worcesterberries #Veganic #permaculture #NoDig #forestgarden

@Sinistar7510 That ought to work. I do a lot of #NoDig gardening, which involves just adding compost on top and so disturbing the soil as little as you can. The worms will mix it all up for you.

Of course if you’re on hard pan maybe it’s good to jump start the drainage like you’re doing— I’ve not had that problem!

Charles Dowding is the man to teach about that [No Dig] if you’re interested. And there are many practitioners on Mastodon to help, too. 💚

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7WDfop74y-lSGvEb2qqeL9WiczseGCfq

#intro-post cause that’s a thing we do.

I like making things and thinking about things.

#NoDig #Gardening of #vegetables, #berries, and sturdy flowers.

plants & chickens in the yard for #canning #FoodPreservation #SeasonalCooking #seasonalEating

Always active #knitting & various #fiberArts projects in “I’ll get to that sometime”

I rock at #facilitating groups & #holisticLeadership
Currently job in #UnitarianUniversalist #relationalStewardship

#PreemptiveRadicalInclusion

#buoyant

Onions and shallots planted in the new #NoDig bed and seem to be doing really well so far.

The compost took 3-4 years, and mixed in mulched wood to add structure, porosity and additional organic matter. I find composted beds can compact more readily than #soil.

#Permaculture

Close up of the Daubenton’s panache perennial kale leaves. Very pretty.
#Edumental #PerennialVegetable #gardening #kale #NoDig

This is our Daubenton’s panache perennial kale. We cut it back not so long ago so we could keep the path. It’s doing very well & seems to like it’s spot near the compost heap.
Stays green & ready to harvest all winter.
It’s been the source of many cuttings shared with friends & we’ve just started a replacement plant for when this one collapses with it’s own weight.
#PerennialVegetables
#NoDig #gardening #kale

Evening @gardening photo update.
All three of the plants in containers in the hot stairwell are doing great! I fill up the monster #tomato plant’s container half-full with water *twice* a day. I call her Aubrey 🌱 There’s a smaller tomato plant hiding behind Aubrey, and the very happy pepper plant.
The second-happiest tomatoes are in the big planters in the driveway, or maybe it’s the ones in the old raised beds. Either way, the rather shady planting over by the dogwoods is, as expected, in last place.
All of the #potatoes are coming along nicely! Some of the varieties are already flowering, presumably the earlies but I haven’t cross checked that. The labels are still there, I’ll sort it out at harvest, thanks adhd!
The first bed is the large one, the new #NoDig bed. It’s lawn, with cardboard and a foot of fluffy compost, planted in potatoes. I’ve hilled them up just like the books say to and they look very happy. The second bed is in front of the old raised beds. It was a crowded raspberry patch that was relocated last fall, and I just dumped a cart full of compost on the bare dirt and planted potatoes. It was definitely not a foot of compost, and I ran out of compost halfway through the hilling process, so they’re hilled with compost and soil, kinda traditional style.
The bed you’re looking at is the third bed, over by the corn terraces. I had intended to plant one or two beds but the boxes of seeds seemed never ending! So these were just barely scratched into the soil and watered a couple of times. When they needed hilling, the closest materials were a bag of raised bed soil and the hay barn, so that’s what they got: a little hill of soil, a bigger pile of hay, another donut of soil (the last of the bag), more hay, and finally tonight I packed in the last hay-hill. I’m *fascinated* to see the results!
The tangle of California poppies is mingling with something (it was whatever was on sale in mid-November) bushy with cheerful yellow flowers. The yellow bush marks the grave of Sammy, one of my #PetRats. He was a very sickly, inbred albino feeder rat, and he was very sweet and was loved very much.

Question for the #nodig #gardeners out there. I'm noticing good moisture retention under plants where there's a variety of "weeds" or nature's companion plants. If I changed these areas to #nodig e.g. put down card, mulch, compost around raspberries, would I get good ground level moisture retention to equal the "weedy" patches?

On a similar note I'm finding that homemade #compost has way better water retention than shop bought. Just need to increase production- freecycled shredder should help!