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RE: My Very Lazy - No Dig, No Till, No Weeding - Garden Bed Prep Method
The manure and old corn stalks is similar to how I prepped my area this year. Hoping the fall leaves and dead stalks aids as a mulch, shade, and nutrition layer to foster good root growth on my plants.
The grass sod example, I will be very surprised if that works well without extra soft compost and fertility added to the soil.
Interesting experiments going on.
Sounds like you are onto a very good mulch with the leaves and stalks!
Yeah the grass sod should be very good! Alan Chadwick calls this turf loam. His method is alternating sod soil touching soil, grass touching grass. (I wasn't as precise when I made mine) With our heavy clay soil I can hardly call this result loam. But it is very enriched soil from all of the composted organic matter of grass, roots and weeds.
I am very confident I can plant directly into this bed any type of vegetable. Disclaimer--- the soil under the grass was healthy to begin with, but now its even better.