Are you getting ready to grow a garden?

Garden tips - what have you learnt... for me it was to dig a fair size hole and fill it with topsoil, leaving a hole still where you plant the plant - then you just fill the hole up with water - it takes so little water this way... you can grow squash, tomatoes, cucumbers zukini etc. this way so easy to water/so little water and you do not need good soil, just the soil you put in the hole needs to be good.

Are you getting ready to grow a garden?
have onions and peas growing the the garden right now...going to put corn, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots and green beans out next month..my problems is we have all clay except in the dog yard where there is a small plot of actual dirt..starting this fall will sow rye grass in the garden then till it into the clay next spring and going to go to a neighbors farm and get some cow manure to spread onto the garden to rot over the winter...figure after doing this for the next few years the clay will not only be fertile but will also loosen up and hopefully have the consistency of dirt...i also have flowers all over the place..when i put them out i just dig the hole and put the flowers in and also sow flower seeds ....with clay you dont have to water as much but if allowed to dry out becomes like a concrete block





hubby built me a composter out of a hot water heater and now i am starting to compost..filled it half full about 1 week ago and it is starting to smell sweet which is what i was told is a good sign...i am doing everything i know or can think of to improve this old clay ground we have..lol
Reply:I just moved and the backyard is completely turf. I know to start a flower garden, I'll have to remove the turf and till the soil with new, vitamin-rich soil. After I plant everything, I'll cover it in decorative mulch. I have no tips like you do, though.
Reply:Mix 1/2 native soil and 1/2 top soil of some sort for a small flower garden. For a big garden, just get as many bags of humus as you feel like putting in and till it under.





I've planted every kind of garden from flowers to massive vegetable gardens.





What you are planting should do fine. Plant some strawberries too. It takes a couple of years to really get going, but is worth it!
Reply:I am getting ready to grow a floral garden, not a veggie garden, but I still dig out about 6 inches of the soil and replace it with topsoil when I start a new one.





This year, I am putting in heather, marigolds, pansies and I am not sure what else yet. Depends on how much room I have left.

beauty