No-effort transplants

A visit to a friend's wonderful garden in Singleton resulted in another improvement in the no-effort farming method.

As you know, we let the vegetables go completely to seed, which results in very thick beds of seedlings the next cycle. We've been harvesting these small plants as greens for salad, and to make room for the remainder to grow to a large size.

However this visit made me realise that they could equally be an ample source of healthy seedlings for other beds. 

So what we do now is, when a bed comes up thick with seedlings, we get a trowel and remove sections of them. These are teased apart and planted into bare spaces in other beds. This gives the seedlings more space to grow in the old beds and in the new beds. Best of all, it requires no work from us to create an abundant supply of happy and healthy seedlings.

Once again, the idea is to interfere less and let natural processes work to assist us.