No-till gardening is a very effective way to garden without the use of a Rototiller. With this method you can use the power of worms to do the work for you so you don’t have to!
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No-till gardening is a very effective way to garden without the use of a Rototiller. With this method you can use the power of worms to do the work for you so you don’t have to!
Gonna do it …… Cardboard cover too.
You give us such good information. Thank You
Tarps are too expensive, can I just use cardboard or newsprint?
All of my raised beds are planted with fall/winter crops. I will be using low tunnels to keep the crops growing through the coldest part of winter. I am starting to empty out some of my grow pots, and planting garlic and radishes in others. The ones that are going idle for the winter, get covered with leaves, with a handful of fertilizer thrown in on top to speed up the break down. By mid February, they will be ready to plant peas in, in March, beets, turnips, radishes, and carrots.
Luke, the only question I have is, won't the soil completely dry out over 5 months covering the bed with a nonporous tarp??
Would this work for an in ground garden? Also wondering if the tarp prevents water from getting to the soil , and if that would be good or bad?
Lumber wrap is free from our local hardware store…lasts for years. We use it to make burrito rolls of leaves to stash in the corners of the garden for use later as a carbon layer as we fill our compost bins and layer shredded dead headings and prunings with leaves for hot compost piles.
And this is why you are my QUAN! LOL!
Thanks!!
Will give it a try ! Thanks
Thank you so much for the information, I'm going to do this, I got my bulb fertilizer and applied it to my garlic and other bulbs.
Sounds good I think I’ll try this on some of my beds .
Will this dry out the earth underneath?
We have freezing weather now. Can I still do this.
Great video, Luke. I'd would have liked something said about how you are holding the tarp down from the winds. Are you using rocks, staking it, tucking it under something. We get really crazy winds where I live and I'd worry about losing the whole thing.
I'm so doing this! Thank you for sharing
Cool beans. Only prob is that if I cover my compost pile for very long I get a lew of roly poly bugs underneath!
Hmm,.. looks like I need to go buy some tarps now 'cause the green layer is already down.
Will landscaping fabric work for this?
I'm going to be putting woodchips on top of all the leaves I've gotten from around the neighborhood. If you live in an area with deciduous trees, the winter months are the best time to get your trees trimmed, because they won't be laden with leaves. Keep the woodchips (and logs) or get a Chip Drop.
Thanks Luke! I have been doing this each year to lengthen my garden, but I didn't realize all the benefits! I just know it works for me!!
Can cardboard be used instead of a tarp? We all have extra cardboard. Thanks for your great videos!
Great advice! Take care!
Hey Luke, tarping the raised bed with my fall planted garlic, good idea or bad idea?
Thank you for the advise. I saw it from another YouTuber but did not explain the benefits. Just question, Would that watering at time of cover be enough to carry it through spring?
What if you put cardboard under the tarps? Is that a good idea? Will it encourage the worms even more and break down into the soil, as I suspect it will? I have a bunch of trellis boxes that I just lined with pieces of cardboard and I put bubble wrap on top, since I don't have any tarps. I came up with the idea after I noticed what happens to the grass when a piece of cardboard or plastic sits on the lawn for a long time. I didn't know other people did that until I saw this video.
Thanks Luke. I was wondering how I was going to help all of the leaves in my garden.
I just gotta say, worms don't see sunlight because they have no eyes. That's ok, I know what you're saying. They definitely have some way to know sunlight. Just made me chuckle (and weeds don't see sunlight either). Also I love this idea and I'm glad I watched this.
Does the soil, the fungi and microbes not need rain? Hope for a reply.