About a No dig Gardener

Hi, I'm Megan and I live in Wellington, New Zealand. I get enormous enjoyment out of gardening, as well as managing this website. Family and friends also provide help with editing, opinions and anecdotes.

I was married to a horticulturist/farmer for many years and ran a cacti and succulent nursery.

One day I will settle permanently in one place and really go to town with a garden that is exactly what I want.

Impossible I know because there will always be a tree out of place or the sun hiding, or a bank, invasive weeds, critters, councils and cold frosts.

Actually when I lived in Nottingham, UK for several years — a while ago now in my early 20's — we made a no-dig garden, mostly roses, with a herb garden down the side. I had never experienced such cold weather before, having come from a temperate climate in New Zealand.

It was one of those oblong plots fenced off from a row of others, out the back of a block of flats (or terraced houses as the English call them) where we lived (froze) upstairs.

Later in Auckland, New Zealand for 5 years my sons helped me with a terraced organic no-dig wonder that grew massive vines and veggies.

In Sydney, Australia I had a prolific balcony garden of pots. It supplied most of the greens and herbs for 15 years.

Now I'm back in NZ, in my home city Wellington, living for now in a cottage with a wild and windy garden. It's taken me nearly a year to become semi self-sufficient with vegetables... planting stuff here and there in any sunny patch amongst the trees.

So I hope I, sort-of, vaguely, sometimes passionately, know what I'm doing! So glad you've joined me... it's a never ending learning experience.

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