Doing a Weedless WaterLess Garden is not for every garden but it has its place. These gardens can take years to "get going" if you need to add layer after layer of organic matter. A shorter method I use is to tack down a layer of plastic or cardboard and let everything die off under. Once either has the new garden area covered, I then cover the whole area with a mulch - hay works but use what's available. You need to cover the plastic from the sun or it deteriorates. Any mulch holds down the cardboard or plastic in a stiff wind.

Then with my seedling in hand, I punch a hole through to the soil, add a good shovel of nutrient dense composted manure and mix that around with the soil. Then in goes my seedling and I replace the plastic or cardboard as close to the plant as possible. That's it. Little evaporation takes place so watering hasn't been an issue in years. Weeds don't grow. . at all.

I laid out the holes through the plastic out to all be placed 2' apart so every year something else can be grown there (most plants take about that much space). If zucchini or other larger plant in going in, then they go in every-other hole and the empty hole gets a small flower to keep weeds out.

In order to keep down other maintenance on the whole area, I till between the WWG and this year I will try non-toxic corn glutton to be rid of all the tall grasses. Then the row can get plugged with either NoMowGrass or other low growing ground cover.

We do not do WWG for row crops like corn and beans. This year those areas will get all natural weed-n-feed corn glutton. We do not use WWG for the permacultured areas.