Our landlord gave us to go ahead to expand our garden into the sheep pasture next to our house.  We took down a large oak tree that was shading a good chunk of our new and existing garden area and cleared it all out.  Now it’s just a matter of making the gardening beds.  Since last years harvest turned out to be kind of a bust we decided this presented a perfect opportunity to experiment with a different idea.  We figure, everyone’s expectations are decently low at this point, so what better time to take a chance?

In this new garden space we’re going to try to set-up a “no dig garden”.  The idea is one that lots of people have gone over and over in their own gardening and farm blogs, so rather than rehash the whole thing I think it suffices to say we’re going to give it a go.

We’ve got lots of old dry hay and leaves in the barn leftover from lambing season and we shouldn’t have too much trouble tracking down grass clippings either.  Maybe we could have a head to head battle and build a no-dig bed alongside a double dig bed and see which does better (read: less poorly).  Wish us luck!

Here’s a cool video that outlines what we’re talking about here:

This entry was posted on May 4th, 2010 and is filed under Gardening.

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