How to create a bed with compost on weeds, then plant into it straight away. I explain the cropping plans for this one bed through several seasons, and the harvests too.

Then I use the small garden of 25m² (269ft²) to show you how, in no dig, plantings can succeed each other through the course of one year. You  learn some vegetable choices and planting methods.

Lesson 17 – Making a bed and five years’ cropping

This is a story of one bed: how we made it in a morning then planted and sowed in the afternoon, and its subsequent growth over the following years. Year five illustrates some of the many possibilities for interplanting. Plus I have used the bed to trial unusual vegetables, so you gain ideas about which may be worthwhile, and which may not be.

Lesson 18 – Two years’ cropping plans and harvests

I take you through the details of soil preparation (very little!), spring sowing, planting, edging and harvesting. Then you see the new plantings in summer, meaning that every part of the garden has grown two, or even three vegetables in one year. No dig means little weeding and no feeding: you can concentrate on cropping and harvesting.

Lesson 19 – a video of my talk, and the final quiz

To finish off the course, a one hour video summarises my approach to no dig, easier cropping and all of the benefits. You save much time while harvests increase, through each year and year on year.

The video also looks at aspects of growing, covered in Course 2, Growing Success.