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Learn how to prepare a new no dig vegetable bed naturally - where organic matter, worms, plant roots and microbes do all the work to improve and maintain soil health. To encourage the growth of microbes, especially fungi, it’s important that the soil is disturbed as little as possible, while at the same time never allowing the soil to lie fallow. Over the coldest winter months, use cover crops to help keep the soil alive, in between my crop rotations where you may plant out a bed according to plant families. Between rotations put down any old legume or green manure seeds that you have at the end of autumn. Happily, this all means very little digging! Before each new planting top up the beds with about 5cm of compost to boosts organic material and improve nutrient availability. So, let’s get started! Printer friendly PDF available here at our blog here: http://www.groworganics.com.au/blog/easy-no-dig-in-the-ground-gardening/ Please like and subscribe for more great home gardening tips and ideas! Facebook - follow us at https://www.facebook.com/groworganics.australia www.groworganics.com.au - check out our website!