I've been watching some of Charles Dowding's videos over on his website (https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/) regarding no dig gardening.

I've got a mess of a front garden, some bulbs and flowers in one half, with a temporary drive, made up of concrete, plaster, junk and what I later found, was a sheet of visquene on the other side, divided by three old concrete lintels I put in to seperate, a few years ago.

It was a mess, so what the hell, let's give this no dig gardening a shot.

I broke up the plaster and concrete waste and removed the visquene from under it all, leaving everything else in.
I pulled up loads of weeds by hand and chucked them on top.
Removed the lintels, left the nettles in and the grass popping up, as well as the bulbs, the recurring flowers that were just starting to sprout.
Then covered the whole lot in an old woollen carpet, weighted down with stone and an old prop.

In three weeks' time, I'll lift the carpet and put about 6 inches of manure/compost over it all, then leave it for another two weeks.
Our neighbours think I'm nuts.

I've started some seeds off in the greenhouse, after two weeks they are starting to come through, cucumbers, corn on the cob, lettuce and stacked up on onion bulbs.
I plan to leave some of the flowers around the edge and the buddlea tree that's been in about two years.

Working on a no dig garden