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rotavate most of my plot… Then portion it up to convert it to no-dig
Sounds a little incongruous. If you’ve got the material/compost/manure, just pile it up on the beds you want to have as no-dig.
JonD-
Yeah, i appreciate that. I just have a lot of stuff I need to plant this year which won’t work with the time a no-dig bed will take to establish and I also don’t have enough FYM and compost to really make it work right now. When this year’s crops done I’ll cover with cardboard and compost. So the partitioning starts now but the prepping of the beds starts Oct/Nov of this year.
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If you’ve got the material/compost/manure, just pile it up on the beds you want to have as no-dig.
In an ideal world but if your soil is home to tough perennial 'weeds' such as couch grass , horsetail, bindweed etc it doesn't always work and often requires years of patience by which time people can become a bit disillusioned with the idea.
Mind you rotavating land riddled with perennial 'weeds' just cuts them up and spreads them around.
Tonts
not4sale
Plots looking good folks. I’ve still got to rotavate most of my plot and dig in some AD and manure. Then portion it up to convert it to no-dig. Getting covid has slowed me up a bit. Threw in some wilko garlic yesterday though.