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How to Create a No Dig Garden
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Tags: Gardening, No Dig Garden, Creating a Garden
Do away with weed-infested areas the easy way. Make new flower/veggie beds in areas of poor soil, etc. No Digging!
| | Save all those newspapers, local/free press papers, etc., that you recycle - preferably not the glossy, colored, advertising brochures - just newsprint. Use your neighbour's papers, too! |
| | Get enough mulch from your local nursery (color/texture to your liking) to cover the area to a depth of three inches. |
| | Pace out the area you wish to convert. You will be covering this with wet newspaper three or four sheets thick with a couple of inches overlap all round. This will give you a rough idea of how much you will require. This is not rocket science! |
| | Slash or mow the area in preparation, leaving everything lying on the ground. Scatter "blood and bone" or a good multi-feed in powder or pellet form. |
| | Water well. |
| | Fill wheelbarrow with newspapers and cover with water in the barrow. |
| | Open the wet newspapers to three to four sheets and drop onto the ground, overlapping a couple of inches as you go. If the ground is uneven, use more paper. |
| | When you're finished with the paper, spread the mulch. How you finish the edges is your choice. I have used large rocks as well as more formal wood edging. |
| | Wait nine to ten months and then make holes through the mulch/paper and start planting. |
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