About a No dig Gardener

Hi there, 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've lost track of the many gardens I've made in my lifetime!

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 of mostly roses, fruit trees and herbs, down the side of the property. I had never experienced such cold weather before, having come from a temperate climate in New Zealand.

The garden was one of those oblong plots fenced off from a row of a dozen 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. It's a wild and windy place by the sea, very hilly and with a lot of rocky, clay soil.

Thanks to compost, mulch and a few other handy materials, I have a good vegetable garden growing, and love to step out the kitchen door at night and pick a salad, herbs or bunch of something to stir-fry.

So I sometimes, but not always, sort-of passionately, know what I'm doing! So glad you've joined me... gardening is a never ending learning experience.