Welcome Gardeners! Join me today for finishing up my star jasmine espalier, explaining my plans for my no-till garden in a little more detail, and finally harvesting olives from my olive trees! Martini anyone? 🍸 Enjoy!
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25 Comments
I did the no dig method when I was desperate to get my dahlias planted in June. I thought for sure the tubers were put in too late and the soul too lousy/clay. Amazingly, I have gorgeous dahlias !! I just made another big bed for roses.🌺🩷
That's one way to shake your money-maker, gurl..get it❤
The no dig method is great and has worked extremely well in my clay soil in zone 6 Ontario, Canada. It is best to soak the cardboard first before adding the compost on top. It helps to break it down faster especially if you live in a hot and drier climate. So exciting to watch all of the changes. You have really made a huge difference in a short time!
Do you wet the cardboard before spreading the compost to help it break down? We don't get a lot of rain so I worry it won't break down. Thanks!
Wait! What? No rocks in the bottom of pots for drainage? Please explain. Thx
Aren’t you worried about some of your plants not reseeding if it’s on top of cardboard? Or things like bulbs and rhizome not spreading?
Oh,you cut your plum trees already?
Wondering if you have done any research on how well the no-dig method works in areas that suffer with drought – I’m about 30 miles from you, also in 9B. I’m going to try a large no-dig patch in my yard but worried we don’t get enough rain for it work. Are you aware of anyone in your area having success?
I want to know where you purchased the hat for gardening. I live in Central Texas and I need one like yours
Whoa! It looks fantastic. I can’t believe how muchnyou’ve accomplished in such a short period of time. 🎉❤
It is so exciting to see olives on your tree! It looks like the tree needs a good trim of dead branches. Are you going to get rid of all the dead? 😊
the no dig (till) method 100% works, i did it in my borders, it kills the weeds and grass and my plants are thriving ❤
Jim Putnam from HortTube did a whole thing about not tilling and using wood chips and compost instead all over his yard when he first got into new house.
You are absolutely doing the right thing in regard to your no till method, nothing in the garden is more important than the soil.
Preserving the olives was the most impressive thing I’ve seen today! 😊🫒
I'm using the no till method in my garden too and I get my cardboard from Big 5. I just asked the manager if I could drop by and take away their cardboard and they were happy to let me have it. ❤
I highly recommend watching ‘Kiss the Ground’. A fantastic documentary about soil health and ways it can help combat climate change.
Looking forward to the development of your garden and I love the no till method. Can't wait to see the end result of the olives.
Fabulous
The front is really coming along nicely 👏. I’m in California zone 9 and the star jasmine are a must. I have a couple on a fence and potted growing up an obelisk. Enjoying all your ideas. Black fences are beautiful glad you’re doing them again. Enjoy your journey, we are too.
I live in an arid climate as well & am a big fan of the cardboard/compost/mulch (or just cardboard w/woodchips where I’m not planting soon). I find it REALLY important to throughly SOAK the soil right before laying down the cardboard AND to soak the cardboard before the compost/mulch layer. Otherwise- any rain we get has a hard time penetrating the dry cardboard, & the ground stays dry under it. I find It really speeds up the path to good soil by doing this.
Hi Janie, love your new place. I'm going to try the cardboard and mulch in a new area. Question, what kind of weed do you have? Is it Bermuda grass? You may have to kill the grass first. Check with your county extension. They should have some info about it. Good luck. I love everything you have done!
Hi Janey. I have used the card board method in my small garden, but this will be the second year so ill see what happens. I have 2 small raiised beds also. Now back when Iwas growing up,
(Im 68) my father plowed acres every year and the only thing i remember him using was fertilizer . Everything growed good back then in the old regular soil. Im in SC.
It was so much fun watching you harvest and brine your olives. It brought back memories of helping my grandfather in the mid 1950s harvest his olive crop. He used an implement called an "Olive Rake". You actually comb the olives off your tree onto a tarp. The rake doesn't injure the tree or the fruit in any way since it's made specifically for that purpose. I used a short handled olive rake for the lowest limbs and his had a long pole for easily reaching the top of the trees. He would fill galvanized tubs with olives and use the lye method to cure them (yikes!, I'm with you, lye is very scary). He made the most delicious olives you can imagine. I did a quick online search and they still make olive rakes. Your olive adventure could be a lot easier next year.
I've been adding worm castings to my compost this year . I have found it makes a stronger disease resistant plant.