What's up everyone? So today we are talking about an interesting gardening method that I've come across. I haven't used it myself personally, but I've done a bunch of research on it and I actually watched a few YouTube videos by this guy Charles Doubting who is this older British

gentleman I do say gentleman because he's kind of a fancy guy but he has these

beautiful gardens and all of them are grown using what he calls the no-till method.

Now before we get into the no-till method, we have to understand what the method is itself.

And so the idea here, as the name might imply, is that once you

establish your garden beds, you never disturb the surface of the soil. So

amendments, like if you're going to add compost, manure, peat, lime, any type of fertilizer, any type of mulch, all of that is added to the very top of the bed and eventually makes its way into those subsoil layers by either watering, earthworms, any sort of bacteria

or microorganisms.

And the reason why he uses it in large part is because it saves time.

So all that time he doesn't have to spend tilling his soil,

double digging his soil, etc.

Even weeding because when you mulch as heavily

as Charles does or those practicing no till,

the weeding is largely replaced. The weeds are kept down simply by using the mulch.

And what you're doing here with this no-till method is you're adding

material in layers so it's very very similar actually to how a forest operates

so forests effectively are no-till. I mean, no one's in that forest digging it up.

And somehow those forests seem to do just fine. And part of the reason why, and this became apparent to me as I was in Acadia National Park

walking around barefoot in those forests is that the level of sponginess to the ground

was really really something to behold.

And part of the reason why is because as things fall down,

they don't fall down in perfect amounts

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