What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we're going to talk about some lazy mode gardening.

Basically gardening for lazy slobs like myself over here. Just kidding, I'm not a slop, but I do like to use the word lazy in a certain way.

And when I say lazy, I mean not doing work that you shouldn't have to do.

So laziness is not necessarily just you're a lazy person and

there's work that needs to be done and you say I'm too lazy I don't feel like

doing it. Lazyness in this context when it comes to gardening is thinking about it and saying well is there

a way that nature can do this work, automation can do this work, good planning can do this work,

and so we're going to talk about Charles Douting today because I've

really been in love with his YouTube channel. He's this pleasant old British guy who has been doing

no dig gardening for a long time and I've talked about no dig before in the

podcast but I haven't really gone into some of the beneficial reasons as to why you may want to do

it and so if you can't tell by the name, no dig means that you allow soil to do its own work.

You are not tilling the soil, you're not double digging down, you're not even tilting the

soil with a tilther.

So why would you do this?

Why would you never touch the soil and just simply add organic matter on top and plants into

that and then allow it to sink down over time.

Well, Charles says that it saves time and effort and the reason why it does that is because

you're using natural processes to work with you

instead of doing that work on your own.

And so the main principle here is to copy nature.

Now if you've ever been in a forest and stepped on the floor there you'll

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