Yesterday I tried to re-edge this end of the bed with my new edger. The original edge was hard to pick out, and I didn’t seem to accomplish much without getting a fork under the weeds to pry them out and make the cut edge visible. Suddenly I thought, “Wait, this is supposed to be a no-dig bed!”
In the end, this may be the most important thing about frost: Frost slows us down. In spring, it tempers our eagerness. In fall, it brings closure and rest. In our gotta-go world–where every nanosecond seems to count–slowness can be a great gift. So rather than see Jack Frost as an adversary, you could choose to greet him as a friend.
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I think perhaps a few of the key parts of a no dig bed were missed here
No dig beds are usually used for annual vegetables and flowers, this means the layers get quite well mixed during the growing season, and then occasionally you add an extra layer of newspaper, green hay (i.e. alfalfa) straw, compost.
Another part of a no dig bed is having a definitive edge – usually bricks or a boxing.
Yates (new zealand seed company) do a good guide on a no-dig garden, its the guide i’m using for my raised veggie patch