A No Dig Vege Grden

by **Nanneerose** Sun May 05, 2019 11:09 pm

This is a bed built on top of an existing bed, lawn area or even hard surfaces like concrete.
Just like compost, you need a good amount of dry materials - like straw, lucerne and dried leaves - along with thinner layers of high nutrient green, leafy weeds and manure to build up the soil.

Sprinkle rock dust straight on top of the area you've chosen - unless it's a hard surface. This helps retain any nutrients already available.
Cover with layers of newspaper, at least 10 pages thick to smother weeds, then water until wet through.
Cover with a layer of grass clippings - this is full of nitrogen.
Top that with a thick layer of dry leaves about 200mm deep or whatever you can rake up. Water in with 1 tbsp of molasses dissolved into a 9L watering can. The molasses feeds the microbes that will help to break all of the materials down.
Add 150mm-200mm layer of lucerne.
Sprinkle with a layer of chicken manure and water in with diluted molasses.
Continue to add layers of Lucerne and Manure (cow or chicken) 3-4 times to reach desired height (The pile will sink by about 20% as it breaks down).
Add a loose layer of mulching straw to 150mm.
Top with 100mm of home-made compost.
Mulch the bed with straw.

You can put anything organic in the layers, to break down into beautiful, productive soil but the more you mix it up, the more nutrients are available to the plants!
https://www.abc.net.au/gardening/factsheets/a-no-dig-garden-bed/9433432

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