DON'T WASTE TIME GARDENING! Simplify For Abundance. The Best Method For Success.

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[@SkilletintheWoods]

Manicured gardens are just another way we humans try to change nature to suit ourselves. Nature will always prevail. Great advice, as always!

[@thebossoftheswamp]

So Ture.

[@woodspirit98]

Growing vegetables is also another way humans change nature to suit ourselves.

[@tommidrab83]

Your point is ... ​@@woodspirit98

[@iamthelaw9369]

I just want fruit and veggies. Gotta manicure it some .

[@baneverything5580]

My garden is a jungle but there`s no weeds. I occasionally chop up the more packed area with a hand pick ax, make a small hole for transplants, or dig a trench for potatoes, and I sprinkle my green grass clippings, mowed over leaves, leaf mold, cardboard and pieces of rotting logs all around the garden to keep a thick mulch layer everywhere. I haul in rich forest soil and leaf mold in my garden dump wagon to make piles for growing squash, melons, potatoes, carrots, beets, rutabagas etc. Food grows in my garden all year here in central Louisiana and I`ll cover plants if a very bad freeze happens to keep them healthy. I also fill cardboard boxes with forest soil on top of a packed, gravel parking area here that`s a dead zone and continually expand that area into a growing zone. I put leaf mold, chunks of rotting branches, some living compost with worms and green grass clippings in the boxes before filling with soil and planting.

[@j.b.6855]

What the boss is doing is creating leaf mold in place. I create it in bins, but I do use leaves to mulch. The best part is I dont even have to gather them. I drive around on garbage day in the fall and pick up all the bags of leaves I need for free.

[@tfarr803]

I'll definitely do that this fall. Thanks for the tip!

[@loudc8651]

I do it also …free from the neighbors…nice mold for my ground cover …less watering,less weeds ..in Toronto Ontario .

[@soniataitt636]

Does this work in raised beds. I am on rocky land mainly so I am doing no dig beds.

[@j.b.6855]

@@soniataitt636 Yes it does. You should mulch all growing areas including raised beds, and leaves are perfect for that. Cuts down on weeding and watering. The leaves will break down and help the soil. While not as nutrient dense as compost, leaf mold (broken down leaves) has important nutrients. Tree roots go down deep and bring up nutrients that are stored in the leaves. Its why forests have great soil.

[@cynthiaklug6020]

I do this, but always go ask the owner’s permission. They always say yes, take all you want. I try to remember the people that gave me the leaves, so I can take them a few things I grow.❤

[@deewise552]

We planted blueberry bushes and chose an area of the garden thick with leaves. Planted the berry bushes and put on a layer of compost. No weeds and the blueberries are coming in like mad!

[@johannakamstra-schickendan7380]

Hello, I was the only one where I live who was saving all the leaves in a big heap to use in my then just started vegetables garden, now more and more wake up. Lived in France for 23 years before coming back to the Netherlands in 2014. Learned a lot from the French, they called the leaves the black gold. You leave one heap for 2 years and use what you need and start another. All my kitchen scraps go into a recipient I made from a pallet, mix it with green and black you just scratch it a big and you find a mass of worms feasting, don’t believe all the idiots who tell you, oh no don’t put in meat, fish or citrus peel and so on. I start another on after oktober and if my bed are empty I put the ready one on my garden beds for the winter and cover with the leaves. Free and very intelligent.😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@thebossoftheswamp]

So true. Just about everything goes into the mulch and fish is absolutely wonderful fertilizer. I don't throw meat in mine anymore because we have too many bears coming to the yard but we used to where we lived before.

[@devinatusi5035]

Back to Eden baby, back to Eden ❤!

[@lauraquigley6403]

A lot of homesteaders are having problems getting chemical free hay the last few years. So ev1 be careful because some hay is being treated with Grazon which will kill your plants. Love you Boss & Lorie please be well🙏🙏🙏Blessing’s

[@TheYellowrose21]

Agree. I mulched some tomato plants with hay and they all shriveled and died. Hay was sprayed in the field.

[@reidcrosby6241]

I was just gonna mention that we he said "cow manure", itll pass thru the cow if the hay was sprayed

[@lauraquigley6403]

@@TheYellowrose21So sorry. It takes years to fix that soil🙏😇

[@lauraquigley6403]

@@reidcrosby6241Exactly what happened to a utuber recently that used the manure! 🙏😇

[@janetnga3234]

Happened to me also.

[@bradcooke5383]

Boss, another method I've used with leaves is to put them in a barrel or large trash can then use a weed eater/whacker to chop up the leaves more which will accelerate the compost breakdown. Thanks for the video sir.

[@lunabeta3516]

Love that

[@kerathome5920]

I still recall a video of yours from many years ago - you were growing pumpkins and had to leave your homestead for an extended period. You came back to a full on pumpkin patch that had required no care from you at all due to your deep mulch method. I love it!

[@janied8831]

Remember that too 👏👏👏

[@thebossoftheswamp]

That's what I love about this method. It's plant and pick with no work in between :-)

[@johnschwalenberg278]

Just got my garden in this weekend , and iv'e use your method with mulch for years now . What a difference it made .

[@iknowheis]

I’ve missed you, Boss! Glad to see you!

[@mildredmorine745]

Everything the boss said is common sense the absolute truth. The wonderful thing about this method it doesn’t cost any money it is just what you have around your property, It keeps the soil moist weed free,doesn’t get any better easier than that.

[@BS.-.-]

My local town residents bag up there fall leaves for pickup..and me to pickup and move to my garden. First year I got and mulched in 170bags useing my lawn mower to mulch in. Now I only get about 60bags a year to keep weeds to a minimum and a lush garden.

[@ChileExpatFamily]

My wife Lori and I do the same type of gardening. You are spot on. Jim in Chile

[@timothyweiss619]

Boss, everything that you said is spot on. The garden shouldn't occupy a ton of your time during the growing season, it should be set up to do it's own thing. You the Man. Take Care Now

[@thebossoftheswamp]

The Set it and Forget it garden. :-))

[@laurencejohnson4106]

Yes, the composting method works!👍👍

[@Shelley-j2y]

The Creator knows what He has created. :) There is a season and reason for everything. Thanks for sharing Jim and Lori.

[@speakrighttogod]

Your garden is beyond beautiful! It is clearly FULL OF LIFE, and looks like an all-you-can-eat buffet.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Thank you kindly :-)

[@Artiekarns]

This is the first time I have seen one of your videos. I would like to know where you live. I live in North Central Arkansas and we get very little rain ever and especially in the summer. Plus it is VERY HOT! Not uncommon to have temperatures over 100° and not cooling off at night much...about 85°. And the humidity is stifling. We moved here 45 years ago and have tried every gardening method out there. Not much success. In south Texas it was hot but not like this and we had plenty of rain. Always an abundant garden. I think more than anything the success of your garden depends more on where you live and not so much on how you garden. Kinda like kids, how you raise them determines a little of how they turn out but the gene pool is more dominate. Just my thoughts, not even worth 2 cents.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

So many factors will determine the success of a garden and the toxic rain and lack of bees we have now isn't helping. We live in NH and have also lived on the Canada border in northern NY.

[@baneverything5580]

@@thebossoftheswamp I`ve only seen native bees this year. No honeybees at all in rural central Louisiana except very early last year. I`m trying to grow things to help feed them.

[@debbiestott3651]

This is just what I needed to watch. My 3rd year of gardening chasing my tail. Thank you very much.

[@nolannatashaTV]

You might be my favourite resource on the internet. Every time I watch one of your videos I feel more confident about the task at hand.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Thank you for saying so.

[@woodspirit98]

I met a guy once in his mid nineties and he showed me something that blew my mind. He had an old gas push mower he used to chop up all of his leaves etc. He attached a board to the bottom of it and cut a square hole on top of the body of it. He put together a square funnel over the hole to drop all of the leaves from his yard. Basically made a stationary leaf chopper out of an old lawn mower. This guy had so much compost for his gardens it was amazing. So were his vegetables. Always covered with leaves.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Very cool idea.

[@MrSouthofBoston]

Happy Saturday

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Happy Sunday.

[@bermudaguy5003]

Hi Boss, Hi Lori & of course Tildy. What a nice surprise to see you today! Your gardens are top shelf, just amazing. God Bless you all 😊

[@thebossoftheswamp]

God Bless.

[@lauriestlyon8773]

Just what I needed. A video from the Boss! Informative and appreciated as ever, Only thing I would say is leave the Dandelions. They only grow in soil where there is a Nitrogen deficiency. Once they have brought it up to par they die off. Besides the young leaves are good in a salad.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Never heard that about the nitrogen but I never really cared to eat these.

[@roseoreillysievers6057]

You can make dandelion tea from the flowers

[@lauriestlyon8773]

@@roseoreillysievers6057 It is what I call "an acquired taste" . However pick them good and yellow and dry them and steep in hot water.

[@jeanettec6212]

Hello Boss! You are so intelligent! No xtra work no extra equipment! I hope you know how much you help people sharing your knowledge! I also hope you are well and have a great week ahead! Love seeing my friend!btw, I just told channel “Bri from scratch” about this video.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Doing well Jeanette and thanks for sharing my video :-)

[@terrylandis6831]

The Boss for President!!!

[@robertbrogley6211]

Well, that’s not saying much. Anyone would be better than the choices we have.

[@SolidGoldShows]

We are going to try this in our high desert garden. Thank you kindly for the information 🙏

[@suezaple4950]

I've been looking into this method for my gardens and my grass using nature's mulch, wish I knew about it before as it works so well, my gardens are thriving as is my lawn, I throw compost on my lawn when I aerate it, which i do myself. Your a smart man Boss loved this as your method does work.

[@ahvc6180]

That's exactly what I did last fall, cover everything with a thick layer of leaves and hay. This spring it was moist and weedless!

[@jenniferf5373]

Thanks for the details. What do you do if the winter is very windy?

[@sanctifiedpath]

Yes, I do this in Northern NV !!!

[@MurrayWhalen]

I like your plan. Less is more.

[@michellefalk5825]

just yesterday me and my neighbor mowed lawns, i collected her grass too!! as soon as it dries out and i have a pile of leaves decomposing from last year.. its natures replenishment, in NW ohio we have horrible clay that doesnt drain well, some plants dont like wet feet.. grass clippings leaves all that makes the dirt so much more airy and nice, and its free!!

[@kleineroteHex]

I eat most weeds!!! They are welcome free food, and yes, mulching makes them come out so easily! Tilling? Nope😊

[@lilcricket4379]

My pain reliever is concentrated weeds. Wild lettuce is my friend

[@TrentGunnellGeorgiaExposure]

That's just good Backwoods Logic...., YeeeSirrr!

[@neil2809]

You are so RIGHT about the Leaves and hay. THAT IS ALL I USE ! Has not me yet. TAKE CARE and STAY WELL

[@sheilaprisco5038]

It’s the simple things in life ❤

[@JCC_1975]

I use this method with hay mostly but also with the leaves. I always have a thriving garden. A friend of mine planted their tomatoes this year a week before mine. Theirs are around a foot tall right now while mine are already 5ft tall. I don't use chemical fertilizer either. Just mulch. God bless and enjoy that beautiful garden 💜

[@thebossoftheswamp]

God Bless ;-)

[@silviapop]

How about the slugs? they like humidity and dark...

[@JCC_1975]

@@silviapop pennies

[@silviapop]

@@JCC_1975 What do you mean? I have lots of slugs in my garden, they eat my strawberries, salads, peas, cabbage.....everything...

[@JCC_1975]

@@silviapop Copper reples slugs. Old copper pennies, a strip of copper around where you plant so they can't cross it. You just have to keep on top of them. Check first thing in the morning and remove the slugs.

[@jerreyhiatte7644]

Boss what a beautiful garden

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Thanks :-)

[@thomas3059]

That Makes sense. Boss? the more insulation you have the better it will be. God bless.

[@joshuakeegwell2896]

Im just goona come out and say it. Boss I hope your sitting down for this. Ten minutes is simple just not enough Boss of the swamp. 45 mins of the Boss sounds like good backwoods logic to me. Cheers Boss

[@charliemcgriff7643]

Thanks

[@canadiancreekranch7836]

Really like your song it reminds me of me and my brother, he works for me and his name is Frankie and we do a lot of hunting together

[@mikedkc]

You’re a smart man, Boss. Good seeing you.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

I appreciate that. Thank you.

[@Joan-ej7wv]

Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

My pleasure!

[@Church2103]

Thank you 🙏🏽😇

[@joannadavis1881]

And the proof is DEFINITELY in your Garden. BEAUTIFUL. The Green colors of your Vegetables in your Garden is beyond any Garden I have ever seen. 🥰❤️ So happy to see you both doing well 🥰❤️

[@eclecticacre2593]

Oh my gosh, I used to watch him a lot. Slipped off my feed for some reason. So glad I found this channel again. Smart man

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Welcome back!

[@MrWillt100]

You got me hooked, I am now a follower of your wise logic, thank you.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Awesome, thank you!

[@edwardfrankenhoff4548]

Double, triple and quadruple Thumbs Up! 👍👍👍👍, Mr. Ed from the wilds of southern Ohio

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Thank you :-)

[@aggiekromah6254]

Good teaching thanks😁👍👍

[@williamqueen8790]

Good to see your videos back ❤

[@garylanders1470]

Great tips! Yhank you kindly

[@103m95g]

Good to see ya Boss, Thanks for taking us along, all the best

[@Aloha4You]

So happy to have found your channel today! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom! Aloha

[@thebossoftheswamp]

You are so welcome and thanks for taking the time to comment. Aloha to you too :-))

[@musicvibes017]

I really enjoy the wealth of knowledge you always share. If you find the time you should write a book with illustrations about your gardening methods. I'd buy it! Nothing can go wrong when you use 'logic' especially 'backwoods logic'.

[@deniserivera6157]

That sure made sense. I'm in a city but I'm going to try and get hay, that would probably be my best bet. Thanks

[@erichagler7842]

i have used that method for a long time on my raised garden beds and, i get the same results . i also do have a watering system that shots the water on the soil not the plants if it needs to have water

[@kennethjohnson347]

Awesome im going to try this method, I been using leaves to make leaf compost in piles but never spread it over my whole garden, I think it's worth the try, ty

[@thebossoftheswamp]

We used to do the same but found this works better for us. The whole leaves provide better weed prevention and moisture retention and then break down on their own through the winter. A win win :-))

[@kalayne6713]

Gardener's gold for sure. Here in Australia, our native flora is evergreen. We can only get leaves if introduced deciduous trees and shrubs are nearby.I have happily bagged leaves from public parks, ignoring ignorant stares. Mostly, I have had good luck except for high winds in spring. Love leaves!

[@roseoreillysievers6057]

Thank you

[@thebossoftheswamp]

You're welcome :-)

[@belomolnar2128]

Additionally. I am having a barnyard manure in stock and All my leaves from vegetables&fruits i am continuously giving in it. After approx. 3 days All leaves are “eaten” there. I mean the barnyard from horses. ❤

[@mmatson7142]

Well I’m finally making myself do a garden this year. Nothing to crazy 3’ wide by 24’ long, just enough to be able to pick some fresh veggies and have it manageable since we both work. Definitely will be using our leaves for this.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Good luck with your garden.

[@constantineperatos3676]

Also that loose moist soil brings those beautiful worms which air the soil keep it fluffy and their castings are nature's fertilizer

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Absolutely :-))

[@britchie528]

Thank you for this information. Great video!

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Glad it was helpful!

[@dmaverick2396]

Like your style sir… thanks.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Thank you too!

[@EulieBennett-Douglas]

Thank you so much for this valuable information. I am highly motivated to follow your advice.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Experiment and have fun with it. Good luck with your garden.

[@pnowikow]

Good advice. I'll try it this 🍂🍂🍂

[@Number10Hunter]

Great video 👍

[@anitamoolman168]

I love to watch your program, please don’t ever stop. You 2 Have an awesome day

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Thank you and an awesome day to you too.

[@mikeoset3193]

👍 doing a great job keep up the great work love it❤

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Thank you! Will do!

[@breezybre2670]

This gives me hope. If the stuff hits the van there are not going to be stores to buy fertilizer and soil etx. We will need to find our own way to grow !!!

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Agreed.

[@pampotgieter7611]

First time I have seen your channel. WOW what an AWESOME garden you have. We live in South Africa 🌍 So we are new to gardening. We had to start from scratch in this new garden. We moved from Johannesburg to Kwa Zulu Natal two and half years ago. Had to get used to a new climate which is quite different to Joburg. Flooding, hail and wind storms. Extreme weather. Very challenging. But I love gardening and you have to pick yourself up and start again. Here where we live they don't leave bags of leaves on the side of the road's. I have to rake up the leaves and bring the bags home. We have a huge Maple 🍁 tree in the complex we live in, and I spend about an hour raking up the leaves. There is a local park a few mins drive from here, about 20 Maple 🍁 trees are growing there. Tons of leaves to be had. Last year collected many bags of Maple 🍁 leaves there. Our daughter and son-in-law gifted me a vacuum/blower for Christmas last year. Much easier than using the lawnmower. But the downside, I got plastered with dust from head to toe, and I have and have a bath. 😂 I started last year collecting leaves. Wonderful how the leaves have broken down, pitch black about 1 foot underneath the leaves. Lots of busy earthworms and grubs broke the leaves down. They did a great job. I have shared your video with my gardening family, friends and my neighbours next door. I love to experiment and try different things in the garden. Its fun to explore and experiment, I have learnt a lot. I have watch many videos on KZbin and have learnt a lot Love to see how people all over the world garden. So interesting 🤔 Thank You for sharing your knowledge and experience with us. Very grateful. Much love from South Africa 🌍 Peace and blessings ❤️ 🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁

[@thebossoftheswamp]

This method has served me well over the years and you're right, as you dig into the leaves, the richer the mulch becomes. It's gardener's gold for sure. We sometimes rake the woods to get leaves and ground fodder. Raking is good exercise. Everything we rake up goes on the garden, leaves, grass clippings, tree bark, you name it. Thanks for sharing my video. Many blessings to you.

[@gaillamont9134]

Excellent Video!

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Thank you :-)

[@tommidrab83]

Ha , 1st video of yours ive seen and it is one that sums up my gardening methods 100% 😅. Its just commons sense, use what you have and work with Mother Nature vs against. Ta Da !

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Simple and effective is a win win :-))

[@keithrayeski6417]

Good to see you smiling and looking well. You are in Gina and my prayers daily. I am a believer and I trust the plan for our lives…and I believe any fears will be washed away! We were introduced to Paul Gautschi and his back to Eden gardening method years ago. I just works and once again, we see the proof! Lovin the “good backwoods logic”!!😊👍🏻❤️

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Thank you Keith. Your prayers are appreciated.

[@marshmeadowpond5036]

Leaf…it to the Boss to come up with the best and easiest gardening method! :-) All the best and God Bless

[@brianmoore-classicalguitar896]

I have been gardening for more than 50 years. I started at age 9. I negelcted to mulch for many years, and had lots of problems. I became much more successful when I started muclhng! My biggest problem is having enough mulch. I live in the NM desert and it is bone dry. I don't have enough leaves so I'm going to take your advice and try a layer of hay or straw 4 inches thick! Helpful video.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

If you buy hay, be sure it's not sprayed with chemicals. Lots of folks sharing that suggestion.

[@rmojo23]

Wow you look great! I thought it was an old video I missed. You look heathy and happy!

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Thank you kindly.

[@Jaynes-Path]

Where I live now there are very few trees that drop their leaves in the fall. What I've found is that if you cut your grass every week, before the seed heads can mature, and put a thick layer of the clippings on the garden it will work the same way. Grass breaks down faster than the leaves will so I'm always adding more. A good thick layer prevents new grass and weeds from growing and my hubby is happy to not have to dispose of his clippings or weed wack around the beds. I'll place about a 4 inch wide layer of clippings around the beds and that gives the lawn mower enough room to get right up to the bed and not disturb anything in the bed. Anything that blows into the garden wont take root because the mulch is too deep. When something actually finds a way, it comes out very easily. Usually it's the ants bringing in seeds that grow and not seeds that came on the wind.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

All my grass clippings go on the garden too. Great stuff -)

[@breezybre2670]

Please advise! How do I mulch the garden if growing from seed. My garden was so cracked and weeded last year ..that was the firsr year. This year I mulchhed in fall..not many leaves have broken down..we are at -35 in the winter.

[@readysetsuccess]

Thanks! This is so helpful.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

You're welcome!

[@Whiskeyitis]

Love it. I always learn something.

[@Thomas-ib6ms]

Thank you very much. I have a nice manicured Garden but next year im going to start doing it this way.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Best of luck with your garden.

[@georgia_adventurer]

I use leaves and mulch…I also create compost. Awesome video

[@thebossoftheswamp]

I occasionally have a separate compost pile but for the most part, this is a self composting garden. Compost is wonderful stuff no matter how you look at it :-)

[@lancelineberry4335]

I like this video. I do change it up from time to time. I plant turnips, kale and mustard on my garden in the fall sometimes but I have an acre of yard so I put grass clippings on it as well as sometimes I burn all the bushels of leaves I put on it. I'm talking about a foot deep. I have won many contests at wo for the biggest vegetable. I once grew a German Johnson that was almost 3 lbs and was as big as a paper plate. Many 7+ pound zucchini in this NC clay. Thanks for sharing!

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Changing thing up is good indeed and congrats on the prize winnings.

[@shaneroper5470]

Another Look to Nature solution. Well done Boss!

[@heavenboundhomestead126]

Yap, it works. It is what mother nature does ever year. Can't improve on what God dose. 😀

[@jerryspinosa5466]

Always gaining knowledge and the simple way of using it.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Glad to hear it!

[@thebellanextdoor]

Thank you, this makes sense and I'm going to try and am now subscribed to your channel

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Thanks for the sub and best of luck with your garden ;-)

[@mountainlife289]

I'll collect leaves in the fall and bag them up for chicken bedding, and put that in the gardens. It has a little extra zing to it.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

I do the same with the chickens.

[@chicagochris1988]

Thank you for the update boss hope yall are doing well!

[@loulentz3107]

Hello J.C. and Lori! It's funny how as a kid, a garden was also one of my chores, and one I didn't really "relish" ;-)!! It interfered with baseball, and bike riding too much! Now, as a senior citizen, I enjoy gardening and tending to the plant life, sage advise, BTW.......!!! I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your filming and editing of your vlog; I really honed in on this aspect with this one! It comes off being very fluid, and "backwoods logical" all at the same time! Well, here's to hoping your garden grows well, and that you get to pop open a beer to celebrate it all! Cheers! to you both, and God Bless! ~Lou

[@thebossoftheswamp]

I appreciate the Lou and thank you for saying so. The videos take a lot of time to make so I like hearing this. Corn's growing like a weed. Weeds aren't growing. Life is good ;-)

[@maienduo]

I have been doing same gardening method for years. I till and rowed my garden bed 9 years ago and still planting on it till now.

[@joshuakeegwell2896]

Ruth Stout has a great book on this.

[@patriciaherman6499]

I watch some homesteaders and they always mention you and how to compost like laying down cardboard, shavings and their homemade compost with some amendments. Also just watched Kyle's Cabin ( adding on his cabin new baby coming) plus building another cabin, once again mention you about using bubble wrap among others . Plus a few others I watch in Alaska have taken your advice. So obviously you've been a great teacher too many newcomers in the last few years, as for myself I've learned a lot. Hugs to Tildy. Blessings to you and Lori.😊🇺🇲

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Always happy to hear that :-)

[@mikegto65]

Awesome awesome advice

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Thanks :-)

[@woodspirit98]

I make compost on top of my garden. No till and plants grow like crazy.

[@sylviahufer7019]

Mother Nature know how to care for the soil , I do a no dig garden and try to mimic Mother Nature

[@karenlongoria5942]

Hey, hey has a lot of pesticides sprayed on it, but love the leaves idea.

[@thebossoftheswamp]

Yes but not all hay fields are sprayed. Best to know where your hay is coming from.

[@douggibson9084]

That's right 👍👍 Boss, be a lazy gardener. I also follow her. "Lazy Garden" Mulch and cardboard bring the worms in.

[@jenniferlee7167]

Your gardening methods make a lot of sense and seem so hassle free. A lot of us will be doing the same this year! Thanks, Boss!

[@thebossoftheswamp]

It's definitely a no fuss garden.