Title: Want a garden with less work? Mulch the crap out of it
Product review: This is more or less the entire book. I'm saying this so as to save you the trouble of trying to find a copy should it not be available here. Ms. Stout was no doubt an excellent gardener in a large part because she used common sense when it came to gardening. Anyone who has ever lived in a semi-arid climate such as the Great Plains of this country understands the value of keeping the soil cool and moist during the growing season. If you mulch heavily, the ground will retain moisture and require less irrigation and will also inhibit weed growth. The decaying mulch is left on the surface of the soil and becomes a soil amendment in and of itself. There is really no need to turn the soil. Therefore the simple act of mulching heavily reduces the amount of work required in your garden. I wouldn't call it "no work", but it certainly does reduce the total amount of work required.
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