A no-dig garden: understanding soil life
My favourite way to grow vegetables is by creating a no-dig garden bed. My entire property has slowly, over time, become one big no-dig garden bed.
No-dig sounds pretty good, right? A vegetable patch with no back-breaking digging is as easy as it sounds, and it has a ton of benefits for the soil and ecosystem of the garden. Healthy, thriving soil grows healthy, thriving plants.
Let’s look at what is behind, or, better yet, what is underneath a successful garden bed.
The first important thing is to understand that soil is a living thing. Woven in between tiny rock particles and organic materials is a bustling, thriving environment full of life. Worms, insects, bacteria, fungi, algae and many other microorganisms are hard at work in your soil. It is this soil life that is responsible for breaking down and decomposing organic material, which in turn feeds plants. This busy underground ecosystem
