Looking for a gardening hack that saves time, labor, and improves the soil? Learn from long-time gardener, Lorna Kring, who got hooked on organic and natural gardening methods at an early age. It’s time to stop digging and start mulching with the no-till gardening system! At first this might sound like a counterintuitive idea – leaving the grass and weeds in place with packed soil doesn’t seem like the smartest plan for a bumper harvest. Conventional
wisdom tells us that mechanically tilling a garden is a good way to aerate and lighten the soil structure while killing weeds at the same time. But it also wreaks havoc on soil life, disturbing the local microbiome and killing a host of beneficial bacteria, fungi, and insects. The no-dig system is actually a clever method of building the soil through layering, adding a selection of natural materials that includes cellulose from paper, chopped leaves, compost, and grass clippings to increase the volume in a lasagna-like soil casserole.