Speaker A
Don't dig up the garden bed this autumn. You are killing the soil with your own hands. When you turn over the soil, you expose all the life that worked for you all season. Earthworms, mycelium, everything dies in a single night of frost. And in the spring, you wonder why the ground is hard as a rock. Our grandfathers didn't pick up a shovel in the autumn. They just cut the weeds 5 cm deep with a hoe, without turning the soil. The roots stay in the ground and turn into humus by spring. Then a handful of mustard, 200g per hundred square meters, right on the surface. Sowed it and forgot it. It will sprout, get caught by the frost, and lie there like a blanket. Cover it with fallen leaves or mowed grass about a hand's width deep. That’s it, you don’t do anything else. Over the winter, the worms will do all the work you tried to do with a shovel. By spring, your soil will be like fluff, while your neighbor picks up the shovel again.
