194-Easy No-Dig Gardening, with Charlie Nardozzi
The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l
Joe Lamp'l
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
No-dig gardening is a simple gardening method that many gardeners — who were taught for years that they had to till or turn their gardens annually — still have many questions about. To demystify no-dig gardening and explain its benefits, my guest this week is my longtime friend Charlie Nardozzi, a nationally recognized garden writer, speaker, and radio and television personality.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover |
| 0:08.7 | everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required. |
| 0:13.1 | And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, |
| 0:18.5 | Joe Lample. |
| 0:19.5 | Hi everybody, it's Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner |
| 0:23.7 | Show. |
| 0:24.7 | Today I'm catching up with Charlie Nardosi. |
| 0:27.0 | He's a well-known horticulturist and a prolific gardening expert through all forms of media. |
| 0:32.9 | And he's quite the writer, and we're here to talk about his newly released in seventh |
| 0:37.6 | book, The Complete Guide to No Dig Gardening, Grow Beautiful Vegetables, Herbs and Flowers, |
| 0:42.7 | The Easy Way. |
| 0:43.9 | That sounds pretty good, right? |
| 0:45.6 | Now no dig or no till gardening has been around for a very long time. |
| 0:49.5 | It's been all the rage in the last few years, but it first became widely known through Ruth |
| 0:54.5 | Stout in her famous book, Gardening Without Work, from 1961. |
| 1:00.0 | And that was inspired by her realization that you don't need to dig to have a healthy |
| 1:04.3 | productive garden. |
| 1:05.9 | You can just pile it up on top, and so that's what she did. |
| 1:09.4 | And it earned her the nickname, Mulch Queen. |
| 1:12.1 | Now that sounds pretty good to me. |
| 1:13.9 | Later, author and garden writer Pat Lanza adopted a similar approach with her best-selling |
| 1:18.5 | book, Lasagna Gardening, with similar concepts, but with a new twist. |
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