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How I Garden
What Happens When you Leave it Alone
Most of what people call gardening is an attempt to correct problems they’ve created themselves.
When soil is kept bare, it dries out. When it’s dug and stirred, it collapses. When it’s constantly fussed over, it demands more attention, not less. None of this is surprising, once you stop to think about it.
What happens when you don’t interfere quite so much is the subject of this page. Covered soil behaves differently. Left alone, it improves. Given time, it asks for very little in return. The garden settles into its own way of working, and much of the labor people accept as necessary simply disappears.
This isn’t advice, and it isn’t a system to memorize. It’s an account of what tends to happen when the garden is allowed to manage itself and what the gardener learns by watching instead of correcting.
What Kind of Garden Is This, Really?
Why Covering the Soil Changes Everything
Why Covering the Soil Changes Everything
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This guide looks at what changes when the garden is no longer treated as a problem to be solved. It explains the kind of system that emerges when soil is protected, disturbed less, and allowed to improve on its own.
Why Covering the Soil Changes Everything
Why Covering the Soil Changes Everything
Why Covering the Soil Changes Everything
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Most garden trouble starts at the surface. This guide explains what happens underneath when soil is left exposed and why covering it quietly eliminates many of the jobs gardeners take for granted.
Why This Garden Gets Easier Over Time
Why Covering the Soil Changes Everything
Why This Garden Gets Easier Over Time
COMING SOON!
Gardens fail more often from impatience than neglect. This guide explains what improves slowly, what compounds, and why a garden that’s left alone asks less of the gardener each year.