by Esther de Schone | 12 Nov, 23 | Sustainable practices
Gardening in an earth-friendly way means understanding that there are sometimes going to be things that like to eat your hard work before you get to. Traditional methods of pest control is to treat with insecticides and pesticides but this is detrimental for two...
by Esther de Schone | 12 Nov, 23 | Inspiration, No-dig gardening
When researching modern no-dig gardening methods, there was one name that continually popped up…Charles Dowding. Charles Dowding is an English horticulturalist and author who has pioneered modern no-dig and organic soil management in the UK since 1983. He is...
by Esther de Schone | 5 Nov, 23 | No-dig gardening, Soil
I’ve always said that gardening is a project for optimists because no matter how many failures I have had, how many seeds don’t sprout or how many healthy plants become the food of neighbouring fauna, still each season I plant, tend the soil and hope that my hard work...
by Esther de Schone | 5 Nov, 23 | No-dig gardening, Soil
There’s a certain thing that happens to you when you start to garden in the no-dig way. You’ll go to a park and observe the piles of fallen leaves carpeting the earth beneath the trees. You’ll visit a coffee shop with a friend and note not only how...
