How do I get grow-boxes ready for planting?
- 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?
Learn More
- Plant Nutrition Food For Everyone (pp. 142-254)
- What Are Commercial Fertilizers? Food For Everyone (pp. 255-257)
- Inorganic vs. Organic Fertilizers Food For Everyone (pp. 137-141)
The custom-made soil has almost no natural fertility. Therefore, you must supply all the fertilizer the crop needs to produce healthy plants and quality fruit. Here’s how you do this:
Step 1: Add Fertilizers On the custom-made soil in each 18” x 30’ grow-box, evenly spread 2 pounds of the Pre-Planting mixture plus 1 pound of the Weekly-Feed mixture. You will learn how to make these mixtures in Fertilizing.
Step 2: Mix Fertilizers with Soil Thoroughly mix everything in the grow-box together with a rake. Add enough water to make a wet mixture.
Step 3: Level the Mixture Level the complete mixture to the top edge of the grow-box. Sprinkle lightly using a fine water spray to keep the soil surface from rapid drying.
Your grow-box is now ready for planting!
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Tip of the Day
It's Fall and time to prepare your soil for winter! For those of you in the Northern hemisphere who have winters, October, November, and and early December are the time you need to be cleaning up your garden and preparing it for next spring's planting. You can even plant hardy garlic, which will overvegetable crops such as radishes, peas, cabbage and broccoli.
The freeze/tha-winter and get an early spring start. Before snow covers your garden mae sure all old materials are either removed from the garden, or if they are clean of weed seeds and disease, till them into your soil-beds. Also, when it's not too muddy, go in and give everything a good weeding with the 2-way hoe (see Tools). Weeding thoroughly in the Fall helps keep the weeds from getting a big head start on you before you can get into the garden in the spring, and is very important.
If you grew a Mittleider garden this year, your beds will benefit from tilling or digging. You can apply Pre-Plant and Weekly Feed to the bed area now, then till them in, or wait until early spring. Either way after tilling 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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