No Dig Blog

01 July 2023

July 2023 full beds, sowings, make compost

This is a key month of the whole year. As well as offering many harvests, it offers the chance to sow and plant many more vegetables. As ...

15 June 2023

Late June, often the weather changes around this time of solstice. I hope so, after five weeks without rain for most of us. Find more det...

31 May 2023

See my newsletter for June with lots of advice for the coming few weeks. It’s a top time for sowing beetroot, carrots, purple sprouting b...

14 May 2023

May’s second half has so much potential for new plantings and harvests. No dig makes it easier because as gross speeds up, we have less t...

01 May 2023

May 2023 no dig sowings are meeting damp weather. It’s a wet and dull spring here. March and April had the most rain since 2001, and the ...

15 April 2023

You can now make many sowings as the weather improves, at last.So far, it’s been a difficult spring for gardening. Too much wind and many...

30 March 2023

March has been remarkably dull, one of the least sunny months I’ve ever recorded, at a time when we are hoping for the first rays of warm...

16 March 2023

Spring can be joyful, frustrating, beautiful, dour! Much as we love the good bits, we have to accept that there will always be setbacks a...

28 February 2023

No dig early spring March 2023, sow under cover only for now, using the dates I suggest and sow tomatoes 10th March.Sometimes it said tha...