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- Healthy Living Editors
- June 15, 2010
- 8:32 am
- 20 comments
This video shows you how, in a space of only 4 x 10 feet, you can easily have your own backyard vegetable garden. You don’t even need to dig. You just lay several layers of mulch (leaves, grass clippings) on top of the ground, separated by newspapers, and you are ready to plant.
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+ add your ownI used the sandwich layering technique over a heavily grassy area, and just left it for several months. When I lifted the cardboard, the grass had composted and it was a breeze to clear the remaining roots. I also have very few weeds to contend with. My earthworms are so happy, they've started to pull the good earth into the yard to expand their area. I find little piles of worm castings scattered in the yard around my garden. My vegetables taste incredible and they're all organic :)
Love this. Raised beds, containers, mulching with throw aways...lots of great ideas; now I just need to put feet to my inspirations!
Thanks for sharing, great idea! I've grown my rosemary, cilantro and lavender in pots. We live in Reno, Nv. and with looong winters, so I just take care of my herbs indoors. Pretty soon will grow squash, chamomille, pepermint and lettuce.
Container Gardening works as well, and much easier to keep tidy and clean. I bought big plastic tubs and filled them up with stones in the bottom, compost, lawn clippings, horsemanure and watered it in well before putting in my seeds. Beans, peas, cucumber, tomatoes does well. Also spinach, carrots , lettuce varieties, and all herbs. Nothing more satisfying than collecting veggies for dinner in your back yard. Margaret Roberts book of Companion Planting is a must to avoid having to spray your food. We have good weather all year here in South Africa on the high veld, and I can grow fantastic crops in winter too, if I buy the seeds from Denmark, on special in their end of summer sales.
wud love to do it but aint got the money ro a bigger enuf garden.
Would love to do this, but javalina and rabbits rule around here. The expense of a chain-link fence would not be practical but they're so much fun to watch it's an even trade. I'll buy from organic section of the supermarket.
Great comments and good ideas. Thanks.
I grow my organic garden in pots - no fuss no muss.
Thank God for diatamacious (sp?) earth! It has been the only thing that will control bugs in my garden and my indoor herb garden and house plants. Next best thing to peanut butter!
Ditto on the "diatomaceous earth" advice, althoough I've just started using it for slug control. Companion planting is also great since one "species" gives nutrients to whatever is near. There is a website online that tells what to plant next to each other. Lavendar also is great to keep flying bugs at bay & smells wonderful and it's perennial! Biggest problem I have is deer & my horse that I let out to graze near my garden, but an electrified fence (battery operated with hot tape) works pretty well.
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