Gardeners are constantly exhorted to improve their soil, to add lime, well-rotted compost and manure, to water in the evening, to do this, do that… all to give their plants their best life.
That’s all very well in the good times but how are these pampered plants going to cope in the bad? When the rains fail to come? Or when they do come and come and come and the soil becomes water-logged. Not only do such pampered plants lack resilience, but when you pamper your plants, you will also be pampering your weeds.
Welcome to the poor-soil garden where plants have to
