Hi Stevie
It is great to hear about your enthusiasm for the garden you are working on, and it is good to see you sharing your experiences with the rest of the no dig community, however this forum is really designed so that people can share their questions about their gardens with others who have discovered how to deal with similar problems, for the betterment of all subscribers. Unfortunately your posts to the forum do not seem to be following in this spirit and I am concerned that you are posting information here which is not appropriate for a no dig, organic forum; you discuss a lot of digging over the ground and make significant use of slug pellets, so I do not understand why you are posting here.
For example, my experience has shown that chipped bark encourages slugs by providing habitat for them, hence you are increasing a ‘need’ for the horrible pellets. I always advise against use of bark mulches for vegetable growing, except in special situations such as wide amenity paths between beds for disabled gardening etc.
Slug pellets can be used in extreme situations, individually and with great care. I use about twenty pellets per year, in growing many thousands of plants. I use them only in conditions of extreme, continued summer wetness, to protect one or two especially sensitive plants in my dig/no dig experiment, not in the main garden.
If you have to use bark, why put a layer between two layers of manure? This doesn’t seem to make any sense. You need to justify such statements, preferably after seeing a result which you can then post back here to the forum.
I strongly advise against spreading lime near potatoes. Lime encourages potato scab, and the cleanest potatoes grow in slightly acidic soil. There are few soils I know of which have benefited from the use of lime. Using compost and manure tends to raise pH anyway, as Ramsay Shewell Cooper of the Good Gardeners Association has found: on a soil of pH5, his compost heaps are of pH8, even though they contain some of his acid soil! His vegetables are superb, simply grown with compost on top. Your posting makes it all sound more complicated than it really is, and I feel it may be confusing to our readers.
Everything I write here is rooted in decades of growing vegetables with lots of trial and error. I write about my mistakes afterwards, so that people can learn and benefit from them; not beforehand, which can lead to difficulties in other gardens.
I would ask that you restrict the postings to simple questions, or concise advice based on the results of experience. If you do want to make long posts about your everyday activities then it would be more appropriate to start a separate blog on another, or your own site, which is more in tune with the approach you outline above.