How to build a raised, no dig, no till, lasagna garden bed | Food Production and Preservation | Forums

Yep. My kind of gardening

With a bed like that if you keep adding mulches every year it will eventually turn into one big mound. You wouldnt need to add soil, but just mulches of straw and green matter that will compost down. Typically you chop and drop what is left after the harvest and return it to the soil before the rainy season (winter for us, summer in the tropics). The bales that make up the border will break down after a season or two, but if you keep mulching the growing area, you will end up with a perennially fertile mound. You will definitely need an input to the system but it shouldnt have to be too intensive.