Ruth Stout’s Garden

Ruth Stout was known as the “Mulch Queen” and practiced permanent garden mulching, saving her hundreds of hours of gardening time as she improved her soil year over year. She had a 45’x50′ vegetable garden where she grew veggies for two people year round and said she “…hasn’t been in a supermarket for over 14 years.” She did all of this work without ever doing any work in the garden after 11am. She lived to 96 years old and wrote "How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back" and "Gardening Without Work: For the Aging, the Busy, and the Indolent".