Get the soil to do the work
There’s a saying: “Gardening requires lots of water, most of it in the form of perspiration.” Without doubt, digging through heavy, wet soil in cold weather can dampen any gardener’s enthusiasm, but it really doesn’t have to be that way. Gardening can be energy efficient and enjoyable if we undertake the right tasks and share the work with nature.
We often overlook how amazing nature really is. Plants have been growing on this planet without human intervention for the past 460 million years, so clearly nature has evolved some rather remarkable systems to support plant growth. If we want to work with nature, we need to
