No Digging Gardening - Growing Your Garden without Digging - Paperback

by John Davidson (Author), Mendon Cottage Books (Editor), Dueep Jyot Singh (Author)

Table of Contents Introduction No Digging Gardening Compost Alternatives Sedge Peat and No Digging Improving Your Soil Structure The 4 Crop Rotation Method Sawdust and No Digging Birds in Your Garden Importance of Mulching Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction For centuries, this has been the lot of human beings, working the fields. Digging the ground before hand in order to prepare it for a new crop. Some people are going to wonder about this topic. What is this idea about no digging. As far as they know, any gardening without any digging is like having breakfast eggs without salt-and-pepper and toast with or without butter. Traditionally speaking, everybody knows that the land has to be dug and the ground aerated well, so that the seeds can get an opportunity to grow. But here is a gardener talking about no digging gardening? Well, that seems interesting! In fact, no digging gardening has been in Vogue for centuries, especially when people kept looking for shortcuts when they did not have to pick up their spades and their hose, and do the digging in the garden, especially when the weather was cold and blustery. This book is going to give you plenty of information on how people have managed to grow their gardens without any sort of digging. If you are thinking of becoming a gardener, but just hate the thought of picking up a spade and digging into the ground because it is such a tiresome and tiring exercise, here is some information about traditional non-gardening methods, which you might find interesting. In fact, this information is for all those people who have not heard that there is a controversy going on between people who advocate lots of digging and those people like I who really could not be bothered to dig, but still manage to have tolerable harvests!