AT the turn of the millennium, as I was discovering the pleasure of growing food, and about a week after I’d cleared a substantial area of lawn of its greenery in preparation for a new vegetable bed, I read an online article about the no-dig approach.
It seemed too good to be true. Establishing a bed was simple, giving you a clean, weed-free growing medium that greatly reduces the ongoing need for weeding; the absence of digging avoids upsetting the soil structure and subterranean ecosystem and releasing carbon from
