My new no-dig garden is now three months old, and the beds are filling up. Every time I look out of the kitchen window I feel astonished that this abundant veg patch was a weedy lawn just a few months ago.
The shallow 5cm (2in) mulch on top of cardboard, which I laid on the weedy grass, is working brilliantly. There is the odd weed sneaking through, mostly where there will have been gaps in the cardboard cover: no matter how carefully I overlap the card there’s always the odd bit. The cardboard layer acts as a light-excluding mulch, meaning that I can use
