Monsieur Rene says he's been gardening for 50 years but only found out about no dig 3 years ago when a fellow community gardener lent him Charles' Vegetable Garden Diary.
He says he loved it instantly and that it made perfect sense to him. He figured even though England is not in the same zone, he would just take the best from the booklet and it's been working really well for him in southern Quebec.
He says he's discovering nature and all its advantages with less work for sure!
And, for the first time this spring he convinced the town NOT to systematically rototill all the plots which they always did in the past! From what I understood from him, this spring the town maintenance crew were instructed to just leave the machine out for whoever wanted to use it instead of just doing it to all plots in one go.
