How do I prepare my garden?
- How do I get grow-boxes ready for planting?
- How do I fill the grow-boxes?
- Why use custom-made soils?
- How do I make custom-made soil?
- How do I construct grow-boxes?
- How do I prepare my garden?
Clear the Area
- Make your garden beautiful. A clean, neat, and orderly garden is pleasing to the eye, more productive, and has fewer weeds and pests.
- Clear the area by removing all undergrowth and brush, all living and dead shrubs, roots, and top-growth. Remove everything that will interfere with gardening such as trees, stumps, and trash.
Level the Area
Level or terrace the space for the grow-boxes. Provide good drainage away from the grow-boxes. Roots drown in standing water.
Eliminate Weeds
Learn More
- Settling the Weed Problem Food For Everyone (pp. 313-320)
There are two types of weeds: annuals and perennials.
- Annuals sprout from seed every year. These can be removed with an appropriate tool, or by using a roto-tiller or a tractor to plow them under.
- Perennial plants keep growing for several years. You must dig perennials up, roots and all, destroying the rhizomes (underground stems) and runners. If perennials are not removed, they will be a continual nuisance throughout the garden, all through the year.
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Tip of the Day
It's Spring Planting Time! For those of you in the Northern hemisphere who have winters, March and early April are the time you need to be preparing your soil and planting the hardy vegetable crops such as radishes, peas, cabbage and broccoli.
The freeze/thaw cycles of winter have broken up and loosened most soils, so as soon as it's not muddy, go in and give everything a good weeding with the 2-way hoe (see Tools). Weeding thoroughly this early gives you the upper hand, and is very important.
If you grew a Mittleider garden last year, your beds will be easy to re-make. Just apply Pre-Plant and Weekly Feed to the bed area, then till them in, place strings on your stakes, and re-make the beds.
Be sure to re-check the level of each bed accurately, since they may have changed a little. Do not be satisfied with anything more than 1" fall in a 30'-long soil-bed. Good Gardening!
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