The lazy man's vegetable garden

The expanded and illustrated version of the best-selling Le Potager du paresseux: all the information you need to create a lush, ecological vegetable garden with minimum effort.

New expanded and illustrated edition

There's no shortage of books on gardening, and no shortage of methods either... But this book is different: it reports on a personal experience, that of producing, in a very simple if unorthodox way, more than organic AB vegetables, in quantity, without any tillage, fertilizers, compost, pesticides, mounds... and with no negative impact on the planet. To achieve this, the author, after an accident forced him to slow down, put his agronomic knowledge to the test and examined the gardener's usual gestures. In view of what happens in a living soil, is it really necessary to dig, hoe and loosen it? Is it at all useful? Or is it downright harmful? The answers he found led him to an innovative approach: phenoculture! Along the way, he corrected what he saw as the technical shortcomings of permaculture. He sketches out the great coherence of the living system that any vegetable garden can become if we respect its biological mechanisms - provided we know what they are! He explains the advantages of cooperating with this system rather than opposing it, constantly upsetting it, trampling on it... This book is invaluable for those who like to understand before acting... For those who distrust fads, too... Or simply for those who wonder!

Didier Helmstetter - Tana Editions - 360 pages