If you decided to give the no dig gardening a try but do not know how to start? Fallow this; don’t do anything with the soil where you like to have your new garden. Just take carton boxes and lay those out with no openings, weeds will sprout through the openings, in the pattern of your new garden. Make sure that all plastic tape is removed. Then cover the whole area with 3-4” of compost and you are ready for planting.
The carton will decompose fairly quickly so the roots of the new plants can penetrate into the soil, but it will be long enough there to prevent the grasses and other perennial weeds from coming through.
Make sure that any weeds that do come up you take out early small weeds are easier to pull up than big once. Next fall just use a maintenance layer of 1-2” of fresh compost to feed your garden the next year.
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