Use compost or organic fertilizer, mixed into your dirt instead of chemical products. Continue to use them every year to make your garden dirt very healthy. Wishing you the best.
One or more of the hobby gardening publication should have lots of articles on this... Hobby Farms, Mother Earth News, Backwoods Home... lots of them out there.
Fertilize and amend the soil as is necessary. Mulch and weed by hand. Once I have my gardens wedded well I use Preen weed preventer so the wind and the birds dropping seeds won't fill the garden with weeds to compete with the plants. I only use shredded leaves and cut grass to mulch my gardens and add as necessary. As long as the plants are healthy, it is much less necessary to use chemicals.
If you have a lot of grass in the garden... you may have to dig it out and bring in new soil.... or consider putting down landscape fabric and building or putting in raised beds on that site (no weeding on your knees) better control of the soil content... We built really tall ones.. but we also like the galvanized steel horse troughs too.
I would consider writing to Jackie Clay at Backwoods Home magazine...and asking her what to do to get the garden soil back under control.... another thing you can do.... Call your local Farm Bureau... they are there to help out the home gardener as well as the bigger guys...
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what is your problems with the garden
Hi Joan,
Use compost or organic fertilizer, mixed into your dirt instead of chemical products. Continue to use them every year to make your garden dirt very healthy. Wishing you the best.
Use coffee grounds and egg shells. They also work to keep out those pesky critters.
One or more of the hobby gardening publication should have lots of articles on this... Hobby Farms, Mother Earth News, Backwoods Home... lots of them out there.
Fertilize and amend the soil as is necessary. Mulch and weed by hand. Once I have my gardens wedded well I use Preen weed preventer so the wind and the birds dropping seeds won't fill the garden with weeds to compete with the plants. I only use shredded leaves and cut grass to mulch my gardens and add as necessary. As long as the plants are healthy, it is much less necessary to use chemicals.
Use eggshells, coffee grounds, and banana peels for fertilizing. They are natural and healthy, and will give your plants a boost :)
If you have a lot of grass in the garden... you may have to dig it out and bring in new soil.... or consider putting down landscape fabric and building or putting in raised beds on that site (no weeding on your knees) better control of the soil content... We built really tall ones.. but we also like the galvanized steel horse troughs too.
I would consider writing to Jackie Clay at Backwoods Home magazine...and asking her what to do to get the garden soil back under control.... another thing you can do.... Call your local Farm Bureau... they are there to help out the home gardener as well as the bigger guys...