Lasagna Gardening is the rage

The latest thinking is to not dig up the soil, no double digging, no breaking the surface. The scientists, that come out of the good agricultural schools, feel it gives bad organisms the opportunity to multiply. The rage is "Lasagna Gardening", a method described in Patricia Lanza's book, which allows the gardener to make a raised bed in layers and get the worms and other beneficial garden microorganisms to break down the layers.

There is never too much reading and there is always things to be learned. I read seed catalogs in order to know the proper picking size of vegetables, I read "Organic Gardening" by Rodale Press and "Mother Earth News" by Ogden Publications. There was a time that the prize for a subscription to "Organic" included great small books with helpful hints. The other thing both companies do is publish great books to read and learn about the garden or cooking the great fruits and vegetables you can grow.

There is no expert in gardening because there is always something new to learn. There are experiments tried by others and passed along.