How do I get soil-beds ready for planting?
- How do I prepare my garden?
- What about the soil?
- How do I construct soil beds?
- How do I level soil-beds?
- How do I get soil-beds ready for planting?
Once your soil-beds are formed and leveled, they are ready for the final planting preparations. Here’s what you do next.
Step 1: Apply Fertilizers To each soil-bed, evenly spread 2 pounds of the Pre-Planting Fertilizer plus 1 pound of the Weekly Feed Fertilizer. You will learn how to make these fertilizers in Fertilizing.
Step 2: Mix Fertilizers with Soil Mix the fertilizers and soil together to a depth of 6 to 8 inches. Make sure to keep the beds level.
Step 3: Ridge the Soil-beds This is one of the most important steps.With the rake tines facing down, pull a small amount of soil from the aisles to start a small ridge along each string. Then, using the same procedure, pull a small amount of soil from the center of the soil-bed to the strings creating a ridge.
Do this until a ridge four (4) inches high has been created.
Step 5: Flatten the Center Next, flatten the center of the soil-bed, creating an area from 10 to 12 inches wide. Make sure it is flat (not rounded). This is where the water will flow during irrigation.
Your soil-bed is now ready for planting!
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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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