Amateur Gardening

How to protect your garden from the ground up this winter

No dig gardening is a simple, affordable and climate friendly way to grow a healthy, productive garden year round. Practiced for hundreds of years globally, the method has recently increased in popularity due to a greater understanding of the importance and diversity of soil life, and the crucial role soil health plays in the future resilience of our gardens.

One of the simplest ways we can help to keep carbon in the soil is by practising no dig. Soil sequesters carbon and digging exposes this to the air, where it is released as carbon

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