Read how here 👇🌱🌽🥕🥦🍅 When we moved in the vegetable garden was overgrown with piles stone and broken paths everyone. We cleared the area with some pretty heavy machinery which was great, but it left us with a large area of soil that was in pretty bad condition and we wanted to turn it back into a production vegetable garden again. Year 1: We turned over the soil by hand - this took hours and was really hard work. We added in some compost and we were able to grow some vegetables ok. Year 2. We had the ground levelled and tilled - which was great for getting the areas level ready for grass seed down, but even with adding more compost and organic matter the soil was still in pretty bad shape. Year 3: We restored a rotavator and used it to break up the soil in the beds and we added more compost. On this video someone in our community commented we should try the ‘No Dig’ method to help save our backs and also help to improve the soil. As always I love to research everything, so I started to read up on this and decided to give it a try. Year 4: We made raised beds and covered the inside with cardboard we had collected before adding a thick layer of compost on top (some was our own and some we bought in). In total we used around 12 tons of compost in the veg garden and cutting boarder. We also used around 1 ton wood chip we saved from tree cutting we had done as used that to create the paths between the beds. This year we planned ahead and prepped the raised beds and paths ready for this year. It has taken us a day to top up the beds with compost and organic matter and also give the paths a fresh layer of woodchip. It has been so much easier compared to the previous years and the soil is so much healthier. If you are thinking of starting a vegetable garden this year this method might be worth a try especially if you already have your own compost as you will need quite a lot of layer up each bed. Have you tried this type of gardening before? #garden #gardening #vegetablegarden #nodiggarden #nodig #gardentransformation #mygarden #growyourownfood