Planet Veggie Garden

We learned about no-dig or “lasagna” gardening earlier this year and have set up a few no-dig beds.There isn’t ONE single way to do a no-dig garden.
The way I see it, there are three components in the no-dig system:

Isolation
Nutrition
Protection

Isolation
You can set up a no-dig garden on virtually any level surface… a growing (or not growing) [...]

Have you ever planted potatoes?
The argument against growing potatoes is:they’re cheap to buy, not worth growing (unless you have somewhat unlimited growing space).The argument for growing spuds is:Ahh, they taste so good fresh out of the garden. And a secondary argument is you can choose many different varieties that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to [...]

Cardboard layer on top newspaper layer

 On a rather dreary, chilly Sunday morning time to assemble the potato box.
There’s a layer of newspaper on the ground. About one section.
You can use only newspaper and make it as thick as you like.
I put cardboard over the newspaper. About a double thickness.
This is basically [...]

no-dig potato box

Last weekend I set up bed for a no-dig “box”.
I put this in an otherwise not very useful area… mostly under the shade of our lemon tree at the top of the photo and near the side and back property fence. The neighbor has a tree on the other side and there’s a [...]

Here in California we’re under Statewide “voluntary” water conservation mode after a couple of drought years. Currently there’s over 1,400 fires burning in the State… I don’t think the water situation will improve any time soon.
Our water district is under forced water rationing… that can affect your gardening.
The water situation has spurred a bit of [...]