In Paris, in the back yards ... somebody came up with the idea that if you ‘double dug’ a garden, and you didn’t go down a foot like you normally go down to turn the ground over, but you actually dug two feet down and rotated the soil, you would fluff it up so much that you could plant plants half or a quarter the distance apart so that they could get all the oxygen from the dirt into the roots.
But also they could hold water like a sponge, so instead of the water running off, it would be absorbed ... .
The beauty is you dense pack the planting so tightly you never have to weed; they choke all the weeds off, and you can water in half the time because the area is tiny!
Duo Dickinson
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Architect and gardener
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