gergwebber
Shohin
I pretty much stopped tilling my veggie gardens soil over a decade ago and just apply an organic mulch spring and fall. Every time you till or pull a weed, you're bring weed seeds to the surface where they'll germinate. An organic mulch suppresses weed germination, moderates soil water and temperature fluctuations and eventually breaks down into beneficial substances for the plants...and I let the worms do the tilling.
True but that is a long term plan. I recently moved form a bed tended by me for a decade, to a community garden plot. I forgot that i had to till! New beds need soil breaking. Worms are better though. Plus after a few years, you deplete the soil seed bank.
Do you have Ed Smiths book?
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