With 2025 just around the corner, there's no doubt more of us are reflecting on what we achieved in the garden this year and perhaps how we can be more sustainable next year. You might even be ...

“Be ye not afraid of doing something your venerable ancestors did, for the benefits to your aching back may be many” (Author anonymous) We all know that gardening involves a lot of hard work: hoeing, ...

Charles Dowding, a longtime proponent, insists that it’s not only easier than what you’re doing now, but it actually works. Here’s how. By Margaret Roach While many of us will soon be out there making ...

But many vegetable growers are turning to no-dig growing, and as long as you have raised beds it’s a system that works well. After clearing away whatever is left of last season’s vegetables – perhaps ...

I can't promise you won't break a sweat, especially in hot, humid climates, but "no dig" gardening is much easier than dragging out the shovel to turn the soil and get your garden ready for planting.

The benefits of no-dig gardening are plain to see in Charles Dowding's productive vegetable beds New year resolutions usually contain good intentions and there are few truly more positive pastimes ...

PAT MARFISI carries bales of alfalfa hay and straw into the center aisle of his Hollywood Hills vegetable garden and begins tearing off pieces of the stuff. He doesn’t have any animals to feed, just ...

At our last garden, we grew vegetables the old-fashioned way. Double digging, manure in trenches, that sort of thing. By the time we moved house and took on a couple of allotment plots, no-dig Dowding ...