Gardening with Nature

In this presentation we explore the No Weed, No Water, No Till, Deep Mulch, Drip Irrigated Gardening System and why we use it. »
David Braden

This is what it looked like
in April 2009
Here we are, later that month
building the Key Hole Beds
This is what it looked like
in August
And here we are in September
Selling the produce
PERMACULTURE
GARDENING
SYSTEM
permanent agriculture
for a
permanent culture
No Weed
No Water
No Till
Deep Mulch
Drip Irrigated
Then, what we are doing is essentially composting in place.  But, instead of hauling materials, building a pile, turning it, and then hauling the finished compost to where we want to grow our plants, we feed the soil organisms where we want to grow our plants . . . and they do the work.
This is a garden we did in
Broomfield in 2009
This is the double key hole pattern
we use to accomodate our drip line
This is a typical key hole bed
using the double key hole
pattern
This is a tomato from my garden
which has not been tilled in six years
That tomato grew in this bed
in this deep mulch
Here are some of my carrots
from that year - no tilling needed
Organic Landscape Design
This is the only gardening system we know that builds fertility over time rather than depleting it.  It builds fertility the way nature builds fertility . . . by feeding the soil.  
By working with nature's processes
we heal nature, heal ourselves
and produce abundance
presents a
The key to what we are doing is the sheet mulch.  The key to the
sheet mulch is the 1/2" of newspaper or cardboard.  It is a weed 
barrier.  With that barrier we can go out into a field like we had in Broomfield - or any lawn - and it doesn't matter what was growing there before . . . it won't come up through the barrier . . . and we don't have to plow or use herbicides.

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