G’day from New Zealand. Actually, I’m a UK expat enjoying the good life in NZ. I was introduced to you, Charles, recently via a Facebook message from my son with a link to your video ‘No Dig Abundance’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HATC3rG6NbQ. We are just in the process of turning our front garden into a chicken run and vegetable garden, hopefully heading towards veggie self-sufficiency!
I was particularly interested in the bit of the video where you showed an area of manure that had been covered with old carpet. I noticed that you were talking about cow manure – that suggested that when you first covered the ground with it was ‘fresh’ rather than well rotted.
Could you tell me if I have interpreted that correctly, please? At the beginning of January in NZ we still have plenty of growing time in NZ, particularly where we live at the top of the South Island. By early March, I’m hoping to start growing veggies in an area of grass (including couch grass) that we are covering with horse manure and tarpaulin.
By the way I love the ‘plugging’ method. If I can start planting in the above plot then I will have plenty of time to get my seedlings ready for dibbing and ‘plugging’!
By the way Happy New Year to all – I’m glad to have found this site. There is a lot of contradictory information out there!