More From Less in the Simple Garden 

My approach, after having followed along with you for the last six years, has become close to your Simple Garden method, with good results. I've been sheet composting each bed under a black tarp over winter in zone 7, mid-Atlantic, so significantly cold winters, often with many days never above freezing. The compost is whatever has accumulated in the large bin over the previous year, regardless of how decomposed it may be. (I do water the bin with urine pretty regularly, which definitely seems to help the decomposition of the relatively high carbon contents.) The black tarp and winter sunlight keeps the beds warm and wet enough to both encourage weed seed sprouting and subsequent death. It makes a micro climate where insects, worms, and fungus can remain active through much of the winter while the rest of the landscape is dormant. This does mean that come spring time, there is still a significant amount of undecomposed matter, but I don't worry about it; it will finish decomposing over the summer. I just cover it with some shredded cardboard mulch. The only digging I do is like you, for the potato crop, and even that is just for the harvest, not the bed prep. The main difference seems to be that I compost every bed every year, so there doesn't seem to be a lack of nutrients anywhere in the rotation. My crops are slightly more diverse, consisting of potatoes, beans, peanuts, tomatoes, carrots, spinach, sweet corn, garlic, and onions. I've still got a full time day-job, so the productivity/effort ratio is a big factor for me, since space is not an issue. Your efforts have been a significant factor in my development as a gardener. As always, many thanks, Bruce!

Simple Garden updates are my favorite :)

This is my favorite garden in the RED gardens project. Happy to hear the concept will still go on for a few seasons at least. I think it's very interesting, how you can produce such amounts of reliable and stable food, with this simple concept and that it require least amount of time. Sure the variety isn't huge. But it provides loads of baseline produce, that you in theory could live on alone. If you really loved baked vegetable or soup :)

I am looking to adopt the simple garden here in the States. I will modify it a bit to add some zucchini (Courgette) and tomatoes and some garlic. Maybe some beans too. Thank you for the ideas and the work you put into this channel. I hope your family is having a happy and healthy new year.

One problem I've run into using grass clippings for mulch is heating. They decompose rapidly and heat up readily. The heat can sometimes damage the crop the clippings are mulching. It's a hit or miss occurrence. I don't know what the factors are. But the earthworms love them and always leave the soil more loamy than before. The simple garden is my favorite. It's basically what I do. Thanks for the update.

Love the simple garden because it shows how over complicated I'm making things lol 😆

Thanks for this video.

As always, interesting video

I keep coming back to this video over and over. I feel there are important lessons here, maybe even beyond gardening. Something about making plenty of space for basics, rather than wearing yourself out with intricacies. Bruce, I'm gonna ramble, and you don't need to read this whole comment. I just wanted to write it because it has been on my mind in a big way. It's something about being sure you have staples, the stuff you need/use daily, the bulk calories, the foundations of the majority of your meals, rather than spending all your energy on a hundred different side dishes to satisfy a need for neverending variety. Not that it's wrong to have all those side dishes. Those things are fun, and if you have time/energy for them then that is great. But in the glamor of chasing those sparkly projects it is possible to overlook the need for basics. In the glamor of gardening intended to "save money at the grocery store" it is possible to undervalue crops which are inexpensive. When you can buy ten pounds of potatoes for less than five dollars it can seem silly to bother growing them yourself. But there is so much invisible value to consider. There is the environmental cost of the pesticides, herbicides, and machinery used to grow it, not to mention the packaging and trucks and fuel used to ship it. Even if those costs aren't monetary they exist for all of us, and growing your own relieves some of that pressure. The heavier and bulkier the crop is which we can take off those trucks, the more impact our gardening has. Then there are community aspects to consider. If your crops are shared with more than just yourself, either through farmer's markets or gifting or soup kitchens, then the impact of those environmental costs extends far beyond just yourself. Each person you feed with these locally grown crops also becomes part of the overall reduction in environmental pressure. And if the garden itself is occasionally a hub of community effort, perhaps only twice a year for planting and harvest, then it becomes an opportunity for friends and environmentally-minded groups to become involved and feel that sense of sharing and contributing to the effort, upholding those values, even if they cannot keep a garden of their own. It becomes a vector for respect and new friendships to be built, and strengthening interpersonal bonds in ways that only come from making such investments and contributing favors. In a world where people suffer and struggle from far too much isolation and feelings of uselessness or pointlessness, it can be a chance for someone to feel tangibly needed and useful and connected. These human interactions can make a sad and lonely person feel more fed and cared for than the actual crops themselves. Having a group of people all over your intricate gardens daily would be a terrible bother, because they do not have the knowledge of how to care for the many various plants and chores and techniques involved. But in a Simple Garden, or any time there is One Big Clear Chore to do, then suddenly a group of relatively inexperienced but enthusiastic volunteers might be extremely useful. This could be appropriate for a group from any church, or social club like the Elks, or kid's club like Boy Scouts or Brownies. Folks from a city with little opportunity to interact with a farm directly could have a lot of fun, especially if they were allowed to take some of the produce home with them as a thank-you. Which again extends the environmental benefits and possibly the joy of feeling connected to one's own food supply. I'm not saying this is the direction RED Gardens needs to go, as that is all about experimentation, research, and careful documentation. But it's an idea that might be useful in some contexts. Perhaps a school could use such a model to educate kids about life cycles, food, and farms. Or a church with some space in a field could start it as a community service project. Or a city park could dedicate a little space towards such a garden for benefit of the poor population. I just think it has potential to explore.

Experience of experiments look nice

It is hard to believe how little time is needed to get such a great yield. I tend to spend way too much time doing anything in the garden. I guess it might be because I see it as a hobby which I enjoy rather than a work that needs to be done. But it is more likely because I am a big perfectionist.

Love your record keeping and simplicity!

I love hearing about your experiments - thank you for sharing. This is very valuable content!! I love hearing your conclusions based on your observations and what you plan to do next round as a result.

Still love the different tests

This is really encouraging.

GREAT gardening video.

You gotta love the sheet mulch. ❤❤

I do like a little bit of pumpkin! I have really enjoyed that over the winter to have in storage! We love the potatoes squash and the store better than potato lol

I like all the content you have been putting out, I don't feel there has been any dip in quality either. Top stuff as always.

Very thoughtful review and results of this project, thank you!

Thank you for your insightful methods into gardening!

Impressive research, sir. Thank you for sharing.

I'd love to hear more about sheet composting, for people with not a lot of room for a compost heap, sheet composting sounds like a great solution.

Carrot flys would be my nightmare. I haven’t had a large issue with them but I will be more cautious of them. Thank you for the vids, keep ‘em up they’re awesome.

Well done!

Oh Bruce, now you have me thinking about the new plot I am doing this year, I like the idea of sheet mulching, seems to produce well. Thank you.

Always been my favourite garden. Great video as always

Your monocrop planting plan is why you have such an issue with carrot fly. Interspersed planting would massively help with pest control

Year by year always great... thanks Man you are very helpful 💪

Wow, this was awesome. Thank you for the review and findings.

We have had success sowing a green manure by broadcasting it just before the squash totally cover the ground in July. It then grows slowly due to lack of light. But as soon as the squash start dieing back it gets light and grows big to cover the ground for the winter.

Thank you for another great video. Interesting concept and one I will definitely try.

I love that you collect data and are able to compare stats year after year, it’s great to see how efficient the simple garden can be

Interesting system, thanks for the video!

Think you're spot on with comparing compost layers of other gardens to sheet mulching. We all know how little actual compost you get from a massive pile of waste. Even when sheet mulching looks thick I bet it rots down to 1mm of compost on there. Especially being light leafy stuff like comfrey. Sheet mulch with some relatively fresh manure or something denser maybe? Or just add a few mms of actual compost to the sheet mulch material to bulk it out. Or just repeat the sheet mulching with comfrey 2 or 3 times instead of one layer that feels quite thick done fresh. Very interesting though. Your vids are always fascinating and thought provoking.

Seems like grass clippings are becoming a popular option now. Looking forward to see how it goes! Excellent content as always.

You have so much space man. I hope you know how lucky you are place-like. On to the channel since the compost video. Keep on

Great video - thank you

Very informative. Good job too on your garden progress.

Wow wow. I only wish that wife and I have a room to grow food like this. Seems manageable and simple like. Only room for growing is in 5 gal buckets and or old containers. Only half shade and sun. Chicago zone 5 or 6 I think. I re use my dirt and add some amendments. Your very bless. Thank for this cool and very good explanation of good use of land.

Heat from grass mulch varies with the kind of grass and how you prepare it but almost all grass will generate warmth. There are a few options that require a little more work but largely it's this very action that makes grass clippings viable as a mulch. Its a balance line of using as little grass as possible. A small sealable silage system that can run variable sized batches of grass clippings that have been thoroughly crimped such as 12 inch PVC clamp pipes or simply very very well packed sealing-top buckets or barrels can pickle out the decomposition heat to some extent. A good source is actually bad wrapped bales (really bad, like soaked through). The Bokashi method of silating the compost instead of till-piling it lets you mix a fair amount of available clippings in as well.

Very informative

One great demonstration from this garden is the possibility of growing staple storage crops in a simple garden and keeping other crops in a complicated garden (tomatoes, beans, salad, etc.). For someone with space for two plots, separating crops by management style could be a very efficient and successful strategy. Thank you for your commitment to maintaining these demonstration gardens and sharing the data broadly.

Thanks for experimenting for us...Great video, as always🥰 We live in a climate area, which is temperate-continental with more or less pronounced local characteristics... fertilizing with a stable manure (granulated or fresh), mulching with straw, hay, as well as the joint sowing of protective plants have proven to it turned out to be excellent...composting requires fermentation, heat and stirring, so we prefer to do it in the compost section. We wish you all the best in the new gardening season.

Excelent sharings, give me a very good idea on how to manage my future to exist garden

Very enjoyable to watch this presentation thank you. I'd like to put my two cents worth in because that's my nature but perhaps it can help somebody out there as well. My garden is grown in what we refer to here on the Old Ranch as the bullpen that is a place where the Bulls are kept during the winter. Were they are given ample bedding of straw and of course eat the hay and the manure falls on the ground. Then when we work the ground up in the spring we plant 4 ft apart and we plant fall Rye in between as a green manure to incorporate in. This keeps the weeds down between the rows as well as adding the nutrients back into the soil. Then when the garden is taken off we allow our pigs to go in there and clean up all the everything that's left then they route and they dig in the routing they dig and they process it and pass it back onto the garden. No Maybe you don't have livestock but you could put fall Rye between and work it in and I found that it works really good

Thank you for this! I have a complicated setup in my home garden, but I think I may adopt something like your Simple Garden for my allotment (or Community garden plot, as we say here in the USA).

I love the concept of sheet mulching! Looks to be the easiest soil conditioning to implement.

Heavy winter rains- that sounds so nice! We live in the high altitude desert southwest and we are having some good rains this winter- very needed. I love how you report the results of your experimentation. It takes a lot of careful record keeping, so thanks!

I have being running a small limited experiment with my potatoes and layering it up in a raised bed, home made compost and fresh grass clippings alternating as the potato grows. Slugs cause some damage but it is superficial and tubers still edible. Amazing yields as the potatoes can grow very large in the grass layers. Although I have noticed grass layer more than an inch can and will lead to the over heating and will kill the plants off. The plants one year reached almost 1 metre tall and produced a good number of tubers at different levels. Love seeing your videos

I think the high yield might also be due to the unusually warm summer and fall this year. My simple garden setup (also used for more bulk crops with a small area for raspberry’s) produced almost 30% more then over the last 5 year average. Also used 25% more water though. Sheet composting also works wonders for me, out of my 200 m^2 setup I have about 40 resting for one year in a 5 year rotation. Starting from sowing the remaining area, I pile up everything I can get my hands on, kitchen scraps to bulk leaves in fall. I stop adding to the pile in early October and first plants after the resting are cucumbers and zucchini. Mulching with straw improved the growing of them even further, might be an alternative to grass clippings. Potato’s the year after never struggled with lack of fertility in my setup, so I think the fertility must be high enough from that resting to support 3-5 crops if the rotation is good

I've had decent success with Crimson Clover as a multipurpose cover crop. It will germinate in the fall, and winter kill (not sure if it will in your climate). Seed is expensive, but pretty easy to grow out and seed save. Your soil looks amazing.

Yes! Grass clippings, straw, or soiled sheep bedding or rabbit manure is wonderful for potato deep mulching! My folks did both and always had bumper crop potatoes in the midwest of the US.

This is such an interesting element of your gardens, thank you for the update. So glad you are continuing it's use and development for a wee while longer at least. It is such a magnificent 'food engine' and holds so much potential for a busy family in the current poor economic climate. I am incredibly tempted to silage tarp an area I'm unsure what to do with and give this a go! Thank you for your continued inspiration. All the very best from the Highlands of Scotland. 👍

Gardening is so amazing. I noticed Your worms are so fat feeding on composting plant matter on the ground. Mine are skinny red wrigglers that i feed mostly coffee grounds in a worm farm. Both worm processes doing well for us in different environments.

I do a fair bit of sheet composting also, especially kitchen scraps. I just pick a bed at a time and layer the scrap veggies / fruit from the kitchen, it's amazing to see how the worms respond to it. If you're looking at potato varieties, my personal favorite is German Butterball, a main crop yellow potato, the highest yielding in my trials, very tasty and a great keeper.

Good to see your videos back. I could not help thinking about integrating rabbitry with planting cover crops. Rabbits have cold manure. I have chickens next to my urban backyard garden.(5hens) and I find myself importing a lot of straw for their run. We want to amend garden with this, however I am concerned that our straw was sprayed with herbicides that would surely ruin our veg. Garden. I have heard that perhaps me planting a few quick growing pole bean seeds in this straw/manure mixture from the chicken run will show me if my straw has been contaminated with herbicides by leaf curls/deformatities

This garden inspired me to open a new garden area. Didn't try the sheet mulching but used straw mulch. Trying the sheet mulch this year.

I really like the concept of the simple garden. When I have a bigger area to grow food, I ll definitely save some space to grow according to this concept. In permaculture, that would great as a zone 2+ between "classical" annual crops and perenial crops!

we have been selling blanched nettle frozen blocks for soups and shakes. It's worth a lot of money.

Not sure why this channel hasn’t got 1 million subscribers.it’s brilliant! Ps Are youse grass clippings on my potatoes for many years it works on both counts as fertility and reduces greening of surface potatoes. In addition, it makes it much easier to harvest without digging

Loved this simple garden idea ! your videos are so informative. The system has a perfection to it, a wonderful logic. I wish it could work in our climate but up to six months without rain make this kind of thing hard to pull off. I've tried substituting sheet mulching for manure with dryland growing and had 100% death except with African vegetables like our continent's indigenous amaranth. I thought all the soil organics would hold water, but it only goes so far. Afraid that some kind of drip irrigation is going to be a must. On that topic, I blend urine from the house urinal, and greywater from the kitchen in raised beds. Some vegetables like chard are enormous. I will be putting the urine lines onto my squash beds soon. Can't wait to see what happens. I have a bad record with all cucurbits and fungus in the dry season. Maybe if they are pumped up with Nitrogen it won't happen !

I have 4' by 8' raised beds and I have mulched with fresh-cut, green grass for many years now. I have noticed the behaviour of worms with this mulch. They quickly establish their tunnels and holes, and then they devour it. Watch in your garden and see whether your worms are noticeably devouring the green grass. Happy worms = happy soil.

I use a abundant supply of old hay to deep mulch our off season garden which works well, but doesn't let the ground dry out in spring. Transplants are a piece of cake, seed beds have to be uncoverd well ahead of sowing and still don't always get dry enough.

I had such a bad year... I had a fungal problem(forgot the name) that stunts the growth of all plants and kills many of them. Even the nettles died... Unbelievable! It was the first time in my life that I experienced this kind of problem. Easily the worst or at least one of the worst years ever!

Have you considered the chop and drop method, i.e. where you grew potatoes, leave the potato leaves, where you grew carrots, leave the carrot tops, with the idea that whatever that plant took out of that piece of land will be partially returned by allowing some part of the same plant to decompose in place?

Great 👍.... I'm trying to update myself with your channel.... I lost the last 4 videos......Good 😊

Get a plastic garbage bin and seep grass clippings and general waste cuttings in water for a few months, mix in a bit of leaf mould and you will soon have a very gentle and easily targetted organic feed water. Most call it Jadam. Very low maintenance for high benefit. Edit forgot to include, the smell goes away after a few months once most of the clippings are broken down. Just mix it before adding to water.

With Grass clippings, I would automatically worry about slugs and mildew. They hold a lot of moister and provide cover for slugs. i've also heard of them going "slimy" or merging into a layer, which can become hydrophobic. My thought on avoiding that would be to only use dry grass, but your more likely to want to make sure when it's dropped it has texture to it, like hay, not a sheet. I agree, this seems like the perfect garden to do a cover crop / green mulch. As is said, farmers are in the solar collection business. No having anything growing, is just wasting time. Of course, What you can get to grow is the question. Something that sprouts quickly, or late enough to be planted after harvest would be best. But I also think, there is ample daylight penetrating the onion and carrot tops (potato and squash smother the ground). And I dont think the largely developed roots late in the season would be bothered by just sprouting plants. So maybe a simple broadcast sow on the surface between the plants would do around those two crops. this would be a type of inter cropping or relay cropping. after a few weeks pull the main crop. If some of the sprouts are damaged, it doesn't really matter, you are planning on them die soon anyways. And you wouldn't be transporting the material far distances like with the grass. This green manure then goes into the sheet compost stage if i remember your rotation correctly. So no worry about nitrogen tie up during decomposition. I really like the simple garden from the point of view of someone simply trying to survive, and provide enough calories for their family. No frills, no taste, just bulk and storage. And so it has always bugged me that there are onions there, since they are so caloricly sparse. They do store well though.

It’s difficult to keep track of the many gardens you have in terms of space and time. It seems like I’m seeing new gardens all the time with no idea if it’s new or an update. A tour of the overall garden to give viewers the lay of the land would be helpful

I have adopted the simple garden into my own, squeezing in corn and peas on either side of the squash and a bed of leafy greens, broccoli and bush beans. Peas are done by late July and the squash are spreading into that area early August. I usually have time to clean up the peas but it's no big deal if I don't and the squash in the corn seems to keep the racoons away (for a bit anyways). the shade of the corn may slow the ripening of the squash or it maybe just later fruit. I have a friend with pigs that will eat them green so no waste.

Interesting thank you. I had a lot of nettles this year and laying them down, then covering them in plastic followed by squash sounds like a great plan. I sowed several batches of grazing rye (Secale cereale). I thought that after the first frost had doomed the squashes and courgettes would be too late but it shot up. And was doing well when the next frost struck a couple of weeks later and did not mind at all. I also sowed another batch last week of November. Again I thought that it was too late but it is also doing well, it seems to germinate only a couple of degrees C above freezing. And it has all come through -8C/18F totally unscathed. By mid December it had reached the red spike stage. Digging it in can be iffy. If it is totally upended into the soil (root on top, green downwards) and no green showing on surface it seems to be fine. But my husband does not seem to have the knack and when he digs it in it regrows. I am southern England so similar yoyo winter temperatures. Possibly more frost and less wind and rain. Another problem is that it attracts rats, so I have had to cover it all with a double layer of netting. I found they scratched through a single layer. I am also hoping to plant a batch end of January/early February just to see what happens. It will have nearly 4 months of growth before I put in squashes. Last year I covered some of my rye with black plastic at the end of April and three weeks later, it was ready for courgettes and sweetcorn, the slugs had dealt with the rye. They are useful after all.

Row covers are an issue for me, too. I'm considering removable frames of treated wood with PVC hoops covered with a layer of Agribond and a layer of field fencing. It would be a significant expense to make the twenty-four 2-1/2 x 8 foot frames I will need, but I'm tired of the wind, the dogs, and the wildlife tearing up my row covers. Having a 2 x 4 wood frame at the bottom that I can kick a little dirt against to seal it up and being able to lift a section like a lid to gain access will be very convenient.

Here in Norway grass clippings between potatoes made a slug problem. Wool has worked but didn't decompose very much and gets in the way. I prefer a very local application of a 1:1 nettle liquid fertilizer.

I’m thinking maybe a late nitrogen fixing green manure could help here. Something like a field bean. Easy to grow and if you let some flower you can eat the beans as well.

My hunch is that you will never defeat the fly without delaying carrot sowing, but if you do, maybe it will be by sowing into a deep compost mulch, to avoid needing to lift the net to control weeds, and maybe burying the sides of the netting, or finding a better way to seal it to the ground than pegs

That handful of partially decomposed roughage with so many earthworms in it says it all.

For combating the carrot fly, interplant onions and garlic in between carrot rows. The smell of each vegetable deter and confuse flies that attack each crop. It's a well known ''symbiotic'' relation between these plants. Good luck

Lazy dog farm just did a video with wood prairie potato farm. Was amazing and filled with tips. One that may work for you is changing up the rotation a bit. Plant potatoes after a brassica. The gas from the brassica helps with harmful pests. Please watch video it may be useful.

I really like this garden design, as it fits with my gardening mantra of "Simplify, Simplify, Simplify!". Is there perhaps scope to add some climbing storage beans, and blue flour corn to the squash bed?

The simple garden is my favorite, probably because of the elegance of its processes. Also possibly because it's something I would be interested in doing, but don't have the space. Regarding pre-potato fertility and winter cover crops, you could try broad beans. They should overwinter well in your mild climate, and will germinate late into the fall. By the time April rolls around they might have fixed enough nitrogen to be useful. Sowing and terminating would be a little work, but not difficult. You could try a small test plot to see how much growth you get before going large-scale.

I do use grass cuttings on my potatoes...be wary of the plants not getting enough water when mulched with grass....the lying grass just seems to absorb loads, creating a damp layer over dry soil...

I think this coming season, I am going to use my grass clippings for the potato area. I spend a lot of time collecting it, and then spend time finding a mulch for the potato. Might as well combine the two!

Interesting number about the carrots. If I understand correctly, the carrots were grown in the same bed in 2017/2020, 2018/2021 and 2019/2022, which shows a severe depletion in bed 1, moderate in bed 2 and an improvement in bed 3, unless carrot root fly and the like was a factor. If you fertilized the same, perhaps the quality of the fertilizer varied greatly?

Ah a KISS garden I like it Keep It Simple Stupid - I'm trying planting carrots with nepeta fassennii plants this year, at least to see if the proximity to the nepeta wards off the dreaded carrot flies 🤔

When you put out a book. Im buying it.

Comfrey is great for fertilizing and also to speed up healing of a broken bone (ask me how I know) - but why not expand to rhubarb? It also has a deep tap root *and* edible stems! I imagine the leaves would make an excellent fertilizer.

I was wondering if the sheet mulching method would encourage moles, but I guess that's one problem you'll never face in Ireland!

I like the simple garden method and l wonder if it can adapt to a different set of plants for rotation. That way multiple simple gardens grow everything just in batches of 4 varieties.

Any thoughts of starting yourself a patch somewhere off the side for another layer on sheeting? Maybe a spot for alfalfa? Cause youre already using some great inputs like comfrey. Maybe just another flower bed like something basic like a bunch of marigolds too cause they are low maintenance as well.

I can't grow crap. My cucumbers don't even produce. I invested in treated lumber to create a boxed in garden. I have squirrels around and a couple of snakes through the summer here in Florida.

Have you thought about using a legume in your rotation to add additional N and also green manure them into the soil before they flower ? I know that takes a growing window out for producing something though. Also just leaving the area fallow for a while will allow the soil to accumulate moisture and mineralise the nitrogen.

I have never sheet mulched. On my quarter acre garden, I have 5 compost piles! Maybe I can save myself some work by sheet mulching instead of piling, turning, and sifting compost. If sheet material is laid down in fall and covered, is the area ready for planting in spring even is the material is not fully broken down?

it always amazes me how neat and weed free your garden is. How much time do you spend a day/week to keep up ? Do you have any helpers?. my goal for this year is to expand my growing area but I already spend at least 2-3 full days a week to keep up with weeding, planting and pest control.

Do you ever add amendments to the simple garden based on the soil test? I’m thinking more about things other than N-P-K from a nutrient density perspective. The perfect time to do it seems like the year you dig to prep for the potatoes.

Well, I do not know how important are the onions or carrots for you as a crop. But if you for example tried to replace them for spring growth with small bush green peas, this also might ad the fertility before you plant the squashes here. Peas require minimum work, they create a thick layer and then you just pull them all out and have additional biomass. So they seem to fit in this model of simple garden. They are supposed to add nitrogen to the soil, but I have no idea how much.

Do they have Squash Vine Borers there in Ireland?

Hi. Loved the simplicity and ingenuity of farming. Could you mention how & where you store the vegetables (for long term usage) after you harvest them ? Reg black sheets used, news n scientific journals have mentioned that plants absorb plastic n it gets transferred to humans via food. So, request you to kindly mention any organic alternatives to it.

I do like the simple garden. I love low maintenance and high yield gardens. And getting rid of waste to boot. I wonder if the squash do so well due to some of the warmth coming from the sheet mulch.

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