Garden Tips & Hints

2023-04-30 thogl

Your garden site should get 6-8 hours sun per day or more on gentle slope.
Keep your garden away from trees and large shrubs due to shade.
If your soil is extremely rocky or hard, plant in raised beds.
Improve your soil with compost, leaves, grass clippings, and manure.
Plant perennial veggies to one side: herbs, raspberry, rhubarb, strawberry.
Plant mint all by itself.
Make raised bed gardens 6-8” high and 4’ across.
For clay or rocky soil, add black loam, peat and organic material.
Leave about a 2’ wide pathway and cover with black plastic and layer of bark, wood chips or pebbles.
Use redwood or green treated boards to contain beds.
Surround the garden area with a 6’ chicken wire fence, with 6” buried in ground to dissuade burrowing critters.
Make organic mulch from pine needles, straw, grass clippings, and shredded leaves.
Make organic fertilizer from manure, compost, bloodmeal, bone meal, and seaweed.
Use succession planting to get multiple yields per season.
Vertical gardening: fence, trellis, poles, sticks, wire for cucs and pole beans. Water often and mulch.
Container gardening: the size of a container should match size of the grown plant.
Containers have holes in the bottom with broken clay shards or inch of pebbles for drainage.
Use sterilized potting soil, NOT GARDEN SOIL, and mix with equal parts peat and vermiculite or pearlite.
Water containers often.
A dry finger several inches down means it needs water.