Garden Tips & Hints
- 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.
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