Sunday, February 9, 2020
To get us through February, we're about to have one zillion posts about gardening. So, so green! In cold, cold February!
- Build raised beds, staple-gun hardware cloth to the bottom (keeps the moles, voles, etc. out).
- Ensure raised bed surface is even. My land is sloped, so I have to dig into the slope.
- Mix organic matter in with the dirt for the raised bed foundation. It'll rot over time and improve the soil.
- Place raised beds in their hole, put in a layer of sticks mixed with dirt.
- Tree limbs or a few logs come next.
- Another layer of sticks and native dirt.
- More tree limbs.
- Decomposing organic matter (leaves).
- The top 12" is the Joe Gardener Perfect Soil Recipe: 50% topsoil + 30% compost + 20% mixed organic matter.
- I like to mix the soil ingredients as I go along, rather than doing some complicated tarp-mixing approach.
- Keep mixing up the perfect soil recipe until the raised bed is full.
- Top off with some leaf mulch or softwood mulch.
- Plant!
- At the end of the season, the dirt should have settled down a few inches, top with a few inches of leaf mulch or compost. (Do this as needed, as the tree limbs break down).
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