Vegetable Seeds Planted, Garden to be Prepped

Source: splendidminta.blogspot.com via Alexandra on Pinterest

We started our little vegetable garden from seed in our homemade greenhouse - a few plastic bins. I've got three of these which I slip into a clear plastic trash bag(for humidity). We made the starter pots from newspaper(see link under image for directions). The garden bed will soon be covered with a heavy layer of chopped leaves, finely mulched sticks, used coffee grounds, and other lawn rakings. We use a less-work lasagna gardening method - layering the top of the beds each year with mulch, grass clippings, and other non-protein organic items. There is no need for tilling; I just run a mulching mower through the garden bed before I dress the top. Here's a helpful blog post which explains this method in detail:

"It took over 20 years of gardening to realize that I didn’t have to work so hard to achieve a fruitful harvest. As the limitless energy of my youth gradually gave way to the physical realities of mid-life, the slow accretion of experience eventually led to an awareness that less work can result in greater crop yields.

Inspired in part by Masanobu Fukuoka’s book, One Straw Revolution, my family experimented with gardening methods which could increase yields with less effort. Fukuoka spent over three decades perfecting his so-called 'do-nothing' technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort. " Read the five stategies to a do-nothing(or do less) garden here.