<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9f670ba6-6868-4569-bfa6-54c6be2b83aa/35BA6BDA-9359-4BEB-829B-FA2E20F0138D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-nodig12-2008jun12%2C0%2C55177.story" href="http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-nodig12-2008jun12%2C0%2C55177.story" style="font-size: 11px;">www.latimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-nodig12-2008jun12%2C0%2C55177.story"><H1>How do his veggies grow? The no-dig way</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-nodig12-2008jun12%2C0%2C55177.story"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.latimes.com/img/BE4F333E-0455-4446-AD7D-2C1458965DB4" alt="No-Dig Gallery" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-nodig12-2008jun12%2C0%2C55177.story"><DIV>Pat Marfisi carries alfalfa hay into his Hollywood Hills backyard, but there aren’t any animals to feed. It’s for his “no dig” vegetable garden.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-nodig12-2008jun12%2C0%2C55177.story"><DIV class="storysubhead">Pat Marfisi applies the low-water, layering technique to his Hollywood Hills plot and reaps an abundance of organic produce.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-nodig12-2008jun12%2C0%2C55177.story"><DIV> PAT MARFISI carries bales of alfalfa hay and straw into the center aisle of his Hollywood Hills vegetable garden and begins tearing off pieces of the stuff. He doesn't have any animals to feed, just his "no-dig" landscape: raised beds using lasagna-like layers of fodder, bone and blood meal and compost -- and remarkably little water.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-nodig12-2008jun12%2C0%2C55177.story"><DIV> Now that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a statewide drought, Marfisi's 300-square-foot patch seems more relevant than ever. It's his personal horticultural laboratory for a low-water, sustainable technique he learned working on organic farms in Australia last year.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-nodig12-2008jun12%2C0%2C55177.story"><LI class="photo_article"> <A target="" href="http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm.0612.no-dig-pg,0,4680628.photogallery"><IMG width="140" height="110" alt="Creating a no-dig garden" src="http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/photogallery/2008-06/39833433-11161717.jpg" /></A> <DIV><A target="" href="http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm.0612.no-dig-pg,0,4680628.photogallery">Photos: Creating a no-dig garden</A></DIV> </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-nodig12-2008jun12%2C0%2C55177.story"><LI class="photo_article"> <A target="" href="http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-nodigside12-2008jun12,0,3026262.story"><IMG width="140" height="110" alt="How to start a no-dig garden" src="http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-06/39876831-11161740.jpg" /></A> <DIV><A target="" href="http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-nodigside12-2008jun12,0,3026262.story">How to start a no-dig garden</A></DIV> </LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/35BA6BDA-9359-4BEB-829B-FA2E20F0138D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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